Edith Wharton Quotes

Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.

Edith Wharton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

EasyBreakHerLilyMisfortuneMade

I was a bad boy as a child.

Andy Dick

ChildBadBad BoyBoy

The best music of my life I heard at my grandmother's church, this little wooden church up on a hill.

Mavis Staples

LifeMusicBestChurchMy LifeHill

Englishmen learn Christ's law best in English. Moses heard God's law in his own tongue; so did Christ's apostles.

John Wycliffe

GodBestLawLearnTongueOwn

When I turned 16 and got my license, the Chevy Blazer was passed down from my sister, so it was very much a starter car.

Amy Purdy

CarSisterDownGotChevyLicense

Energy-saving technologies keep improving faster than they're applied, so efficiency is an ever larger and cheaper resource.

Amory Lovins

EfficiencyImprovingKeepCheaper

Being a musician since I was a teen, Guitar Center is the staple. You need anything to create, it's there. You need a Guitar Center. You gotta give it homage. It's a tool shed, and without the tool shed, it's hard to create.

Steve Aoki

TeenGuitarYouCreateNeedHard

In my whole life, I've worn black tie three times. I can't tie the knot myself. Once, at the premiere of the opera, I got to La Scala before Domenico, and I was hiding in the corner until he arrived, and I said, 'Quick, you have to tie my tie, please!' Otherwise, I'll wear a tuxedo jacket with jeans and my bling-bling cross.

Stefano Gabbana

LifeMyselfBlackYouSaidThree

Go out and collect data and, instead of having the answer, just look at the data and see if the data tells you anything. When we're allowed to do this with companies, it's almost magical.

Steven Levitt

DataYouLookGoSeeAnything

I think the graphic novel form works, in practice, a lot differently from watching a movie. You can put it down and pick it back up whenever you want - something you can't do in a theater.

Travis Beacham

PracticeThinkYouBackDownWant

I will say this: I've always sort of had maybe an inflated sense of my ability to sequence songs in a narrative flow.

Rodney Crowell

SayFlowWillAlwaysAbilitySense

The 'Ndrangheta is an exceptionally dangerous, sophisticated and insidious criminal organization, with tentacles stretching from Italy to countries around the world.

Loretta Lynch

OrganizationWorldDangerousCriminal

The Bush administration said today there is a lot of support for us to attack Iraq. Exxon, Mobil, Texaco, Chevron, they're all lining up.

Jay Leno

TodaySupportSaidUpUsAttack

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