Edwin Markham Quotes

We have ground for believing that a noble form of socialism existed among the prehistoric and primitive people on this planet, the people that broke into restless groups after the ancient Deluge and went wandering over the globe. For we find a socialist tendency in all the barbaric tribes of earth.

Edwin Markham

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 23, 1852 - March 7, 1940

Topics

PeopleSocialismFindEarthNoble

It's a shame to call somebody a 'diva' simply because they work harder than everybody else.

Jennifer Lopez

WorkShameDivaCallBecauseThan

I want to be as pretty as Robert Pattinson.

Megan Fox

WantPrettyRobert

In general, I think very few people have a sustained interest in news.

John Hockenberry

PeopleThinkNewsInterestGeneral

The tax code is weighted toward the ultra-wealthy and ultra-wealthy corporations and has created an offshore aristocracy of people who can afford to hire an army of accountants and lawyers. This shifts the tax burden to small businesses, entrepreneurs, and others.

Jeff Fortenberry

PeopleSmallArmyLawyersBurden

There's a way that white people and black people spoke in the '70s that is nothing like how they speak now. They spoke from a soul, actually. There's a singsongy way of walking and talking that's just different now.

Michael Jai White

SoulPeopleSpeakBlackWalkingWay

Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.

John Updike

MyselfLearnEnoughNowTeachYears

I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.

Steve Jobs

ScienceBeautifulGreatSpaceWay

Working on 'Laguna' was great because just being in production and shooting stuff and having to go back and relive some things, and there were some lines here and there that the producers would want us to say, and just kind of, you're forced to recreate moments, and just working on the show was so much fun.

Stephen Colletti

GreatFunMomentsYouBackKind

I have always had tremendous respect for my sister as an artist, as a woman, and now as a mother.

Solange Knowles

MotherRespectWomanSisterArtist

I don't keep a diary and I throw away nearly all the paper I might have kept. I don't keep an archive. There's something worrying about my make-up that I try to leave no trace of myself apart from my plays.

Tom Stoppard

MyselfTryDiaryLeaveSomething

When I was 21 years old, I had a job playing Santa Claus in a shopping centre in Sacramento. I was rail thin, so it's not like I was a traditional Santa Claus even then. I had a square stomach; that was the shape of the sofa cushion that I had stuffed into my pants.

Tom Hanks

JobShoppingOldPantsShapeSofa

People ask me where I'm from. I say Ireland, and they are like 'Really? You don't look Irish.' Then you have to explain... people are intrigued, but sometimes you think, 'Why do I have to tell my whole story every time I open my mouth?

Ruth Negga

TimePeopleMeStoryThinkLook

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