Irving Babbitt Quotes

We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration.

Irving Babbitt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 2, 1865 - July 15, 1933

Topics

GreatRomanticMustGetAspiration

There's a magical energy and power from the ocean. I was born in a room overlooking the sea, in the middle of a storm. Perhaps, then, it's not surprising that shores touch my soul. Science might disagree, but I think there's a difference in the air on a coast - the positive ions, perhaps.

Jo Beverley

PositiveSeaPowerScienceOcean

It's a hard thing to be an artist and not give up.

Robert Hilburn

ArtistHardUpGiveHard Thing

Few and far between are the books you'll cherish, returning to them time and again, to revisit old friends, relive old happiness, and recapture the magic of that first read.

Michael A. Stackpole

HappinessTimeOld FriendsMagicYou

I don't try to project any image at all, other than the person that I am.

Tracy Chapman

I AmPersonTryProjectImageThan

Mortality means you don't have forever to work things out. You can live your life unexamined but then on the last day you're going to think: 'I've left things a little late.'

Mitch Albom

LifeWorkLiveDayThinkYou

Family comes first, and golf is second.

Jason Day

FamilyGolfFirstSecond

Many creative people are finding that creativity doesn't grow in abundance, it grows from scarcity - the more Lego bricks you have doesn't mean you're going to be more creative; you can be very creative with very few Lego bricks.

Jorgen Vig Knudstorp

CreativityCreativePeopleGrowYou

I've got a long list of books I wish I'd never written-and I've kept them all out of print for the past 20 years.

Dean Koontz

PastWishLongNeverI WishOut

Sometimes with 'The New Yorker,' they have grammar rules that just don't feel right in my mouth.

David Sedaris

FeelMouthRulesNewSometimesJust

Vin Diesel is the best kisser in the world, better than anyone else I've ever had. The most attractive thing about Vin is his brain. That's his most attractive muscle.

Asia Argento

BestBrainWorldBetterMuscleMost

I suppose, the natural outgrowth about writing about two friends, it becomes about their friendship, and the complexities of it, and the way personality plays off each other, and what they each like to do, separately and together.

Alison McGhee

FriendshipPersonalityTogetherWay

The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy.

Paul Wellstone

DemocracyHypocrisyMoralComeBeen

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