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Edith Wharton Quotes

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: January 24, 1862 - August 11, 1937

Topics

Inspirational Mirror Light Candle

If you help disabled children, it's very appealing. If you help kids with cancer, those are the things you get credit for and those things are beautiful. But when it comes to stopping violence or really putting the time into rebuilding schools, that's just a different kind of project. It takes more than just money to do that.

Beautiful Children Time Money Help

Music was so important to the culture when I was growing up in the Sixties and Seventies. We just expected that Bob Dylan was going to make a great record, and it was normal. It was like, 'Okay, here's another great record by Bob Dylan; here's another great record by Led Zeppelin.'

John Mellencamp

Music Great Culture Growing Up Okay

I always think that I'm the best thing in a lot of bad movies. Personally, I have to. I think that I like me as an actor.

Matthew Lillard

Best Me Think Bad Movies Actor

If you chase something too desperately, it eludes you.

You Something Chase Too Desperately

I believe you should have a world where you've got to license something at a fair price.

World Believe You Price I Believe

I feel like everyone just gets constricted by their parents or, just, life.

Life Parents Feel Everyone Just

Instead of focusing on growing jobs and reigniting our economy, President Obama focused on growing government and tried to remake the United States into the image of the debt-laden countries of Europe. His approach has been more spending, more regulation, and higher taxes.

Government Growing Focused Image

In my family, they were all big boozers.

Family Big Were

We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself.

Louis Armstrong

Yourself You Find Notes Got Other

Sometimes when I watch a TV season, your favorite shows die quickly. And then sometimes it's not your favorite, and they live on for 12 years.

Live Die Sometimes Years Watch Your

I didn't have any natural instincts toward heading. It cost me lots of opportunities to score.

Me Opportunities Cost Natural Score

I would have loved to have been a footballer like my great uncle Matt Busby, but I knew quite early on that I wasn't going to make the grade. Luckily I was told by the age of 13 that I wasn't good enough. That's not a bad thing. You see this 'X Factor' generation of kids now who don't accept that they're not good enough.

Good Age Great Not Good Enough Loved

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