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Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: July 4, 1804 - May 19, 1864

Topics

Good Communication Words Evil Hands

'Raising Arizona' is maybe my favorite comedy of all time. What's great about it is that as slapstick as it gets, it has great moments of emotion and caring. Them bringing the baby back and Trey Wilson's character. I love that, man.

Joe Carnahan

Love Character Great Time Man Baby

In some cases radiation reduces the incidence of cancer.

John Cameron

Cancer Radiation Some Cases

I don't like things that are uncomfortable - everything we do, however structured or detailed, needs to be made so that when someone wears it, they completely forget about it.

Jenny Packham

Someone Uncomfortable Forget Things

People come to Cannes just to advertise their films, not with a particular message. But the advantage is that if you go to the festival, you get so much press coverage in three days that it advertises the film for the rest of the year.

Jean-Luc Godard

People Rest Year You Go Three

The liberals in the House strongly resemble liberals I have known through the last two decades in the civil rights conflict. When it comes time to show on which side they will be counted, they excuse themselves.

Shirley Chisholm

Time Conflict House Will Two Rights

I'm not a singer. I'm a musician, which is different.

Tracie Bennett

Singer Different Musician Which

I do have faith. I don't have faith that a God exists, nor do I have faith that one does not; I have absolute faith that I do not know, cannot know, am only human, am an infinitesimal creature packed onto a cramped planet crowded with seven billion bodies, and as many yearning hearts, and as many questioning minds.

Marya Hornbacher

God Faith Know Minds Human Planet

If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

People Silly Done Nothing Never Get

Sometimes you have to understand that you push ahead, there's going to be a lot of flak, there's going to be a lot of dogs barking, but the wagon train moves ahead.

Juan Williams

Push You Train Sometimes Understand

My mother is British; she's from Shrewsbury. She turned me onto 'Monty Python' very early.

Jason Bateman

Mother Me Early She British Python

It depends on the book and what else is going on during my life, but it usually takes me about six months to write and revise the first draft.

Janette Rallison

Life Me Book My Life Write First

I go through periods where I don't shop at all, and then I go crazy and buy everything in sight. I never know what to wear, and I'm at my worst before an audition. I pull everything out of the closet, throw it on my bed. I'll get entirely dressed and then take it all off again until I'm in a kind of frenzy.

Brooke Adams

Crazy Dressed Go Know Kind Never