Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes

One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 14, 1811 - July 1, 1896

Topics

GreatMeStylishMediocrityWhyTry

Being an artist, you soak up imagery, and you put it back out in whatever form you do your own imagery.

Jim Starlin

YouArtistBackWhateverOutOwn

We can only create good jobs if we make smarter investments in infrastructure and do more to support small businesses, not stiff them.

Michael Bloomberg

GoodSupportSmallCreateMoreOnly

Not all films are going to go down in history.

Steven Ford

HistoryDownGoGoingFilms

My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries.

Steven Pinker

NatureHuman NatureOpinionsBack

I feel lucky that I can have people laugh solidly for a whole hour by just saying what I think and getting paid for it.

Steven Wright

PeopleSayingThinkFeelLaughPaid

In summer winter rain or sun, it's good to be on horseback.

Mike Oldfield

WinterGoodRainSunSummer

I never wanted to be on an exclusively Christian label.

Mat Kearney

ChristianNeverLabelWanted

Getting a bunch of horses to just stand there all day and do nothing is much harder than getting them to run around.

Miguel Sapochnik

DayStandRunNothingJustHorses

The future is finally something that we can now put into focus.

Lou Gramm

FutureFocusNowSomethingFinally

I think everyone goes through chapters in their life and there was a time when I wasn't feeling terribly positive about what I was contributing to film, or wasn't feeling as if I was going in the direction I wanted and I re-evaluated what I was doing.

Jude Law

LifePositiveTimeDirectionThink

When I lock myself up to write, I cannot allow myself to think about the censor or the reviewer or anyone but my characters and their story!

Judy Blume

MyselfStoryThinkWriteUpLock

People have been trying to make a two-hour feature film of 'Outlander' for years and years and years.

Diana Gabaldon

PeopleTryingYearsFilmBeenMake

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