Edna Ferber Quotes

Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.

Edna Ferber

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 15, 1885 - April 16, 1968

Topics

BusinessPastPeopleLooking Back

'Watchmen' is a cornerstone of both DC Comics' publishing history and its future.

Jim Lee

FutureHistoryCornerstonePublishing

I believe we must protect Medicare's guaranteed benefit, and I will oppose any effort to dismantle Medicare and turn it into a voucher system.

Ann Kirkpatrick

EffortBelieveWillProtectTurn

There's no such thing as low-cost fuels.

Maurice Flanagan

FuelsLow-CostThing

I am not a journalist or an academic.

Trevor Paglen

I AmAcademicJournalistAm

There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude.

Robert Ballard

SeaLandMoreActiveTwoThan

I keep the drafts of each poem in color-coded folders. I pick up the folders according to how I feel about that color that day.

Rita Dove

DayColorFeelUpKeepPoem

I tend to plan as I write. And I want to leave myself open and the character open to keep on going until it seems to be the time to stop.

Roddy Doyle

CharacterTimeMyselfPlanStop

You should be held accountable for your actions.

Rozonda Thomas

YouAccountableActionsYourShould

I do a big roast of Trump during my set now - which I clearly expanded on - because there's so much to make fun of him about now.

Lisa Lampanelli

FunNowHimClearlyBigBecause

I always hope people will like me, and I'm always afraid they will think I'm a fraud. I try harder than perhaps I should to make people like me, then it backfires. They think I'm a buffoon.

Jay McInerney

HopePeopleMeThinkTryFraud

Doing a movie about Steve Jobs is just generally a provocative thing to do, whoever does it, and it begs a lot of questioning and skepticism only in that, what is this going to be? What am I going to be looking at? And curiosity as well. I think that's all positive in any film, because you want people to be curious about it.

Joshua Michael Stern

PositiveCuriousPeopleLookingYou

I want to continue to play characters that are not like me at all, and transform.

Janina Gavankar

MePlayWantTransformContinue

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