Irving Babbitt Quotes

An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen.

Irving Babbitt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

QualityDayWorldReadingPresent

I grew up in a world that told girls they couldn't play rock 'n' roll.

Joan Jett

WorldPlayRockUpRollGrew

I don't really get off on the anonymous love of strangers, which I think a lot of actors do. They're lacking something in their own personal lives, so they want the adoration of autographs and all that stuff.

John C. Reilly

LoveThinkStrangersWantPersonal

There's no such thing as a 100-year flood.

Andrew Cuomo

FloodThing

Whenever I've met with businesses that want to locate in Colorado, the state's infrastructure for moving people and products is a top concern.

John Hickenlooper

PeopleMovingColoradoWantTopMet

I never assumed I would have that commercial success, so it was a total surprise. And honestly, I never assumed that it would ever happen again.

Tracy Chapman

SuccessSurpriseNeverHappenAgain

We must seize the moment and permanently delay the entire law. Congress can do this. We control the purse strings and can protect taxpayers from funding Obamacare.

Tom Graves

MomentLawControlProtectSeize

That's my main complaint with Murakami: that he writes these complex males and then really static women.

Lucy Dacus

WomenComplexStaticHeMainReally

I was an undergrad math major and a grad student in computer science. I'm hugely introverted, not atypical of math majors.

Judith Faulkner

ScienceStudentComputer ScienceMath

My mode of presentation is short-form video - basically I create fast cut, impassioned 'idea explainers' that explode with enthusiasm and intensity as they distill how technology is expanding our sphere of possibility.

Jason Silva

TechnologyEnthusiasmFastCreate

Sometimes I forget some of the things I've done. I recently recalled that after Watergate I went away by myself to Tahiti for a month, moving from island to island. That was a point in my life where I didn't know what was next.

Diane Sawyer

LifeMyselfMovingMy LifeSometimes

I'm here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn't make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply.

Christopher Hitchens

LifeProcessEvolutionProductHere

The key to life when it gets tough is to keep moving. Just keep moving.

Tyler Perry

LifeMovingToughKeyKeep Moving

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