Edna Ferber Quotes

Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.

Edna Ferber

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

BetterMeanBigThanViolets

I don't hide out. If you build a wall around yourself, it draws people to invade it. Fear is the enemy.

Matt Dillon

FearYourselfPeopleYouHideWall

I believe I can do anything. If I decide I want to be a doctor tomorrow, I'm going to be a doctor.

Amy Jo Johnson

TomorrowDoctorBelieveI CanWant

What I've looked to do is try and become a change agent for good, to create the behavioral changes, the cultural changes to really embrace urgency, adopt a higher tolerance to risk, and just encourage people to make decisions.

Steve Easterbrook

ChangeGoodPeopleDecisionsCreate

Sometimes I get a little drunk, sometimes I get a little out of it, sometimes I get out of tune onstage, but that's something that shouldn't be dissected.

Stephen Stills

DrunkSometimesOutLittleSomething

The whole deal is when you walk onstage, you're up there bigger than life. People idolize you.

Stevie Ray Vaughan

LifeWalkPeopleYouUpBigger

Any mistakes that I make is an investment in my future.

Rose Namajunas

FutureMistakesInvestmentMakeAny

When I was ten, I spent a school holiday watching a lot of films: 'Dead Poets Society', 'Stand By Me', 'Home Alone' and 'The Goonies'. It completely inspired me. I told my parents I wanted to become an actor after that.

Russell Tovey

HomeAloneSchoolParentsMeStand

For my whole career, I didn't have sparring partners. I was frustrated when I came to the UFC because, after a few minutes of the first round, I would feel dead because I had no sparring partners.

Mirko Cro Cop

FeelCareerDeadFirstRoundWhole

I also argued before the war that the administration was underestimating Arab nationalism and Iraqi nationalism, that it was not going to be as easy to rule Iraq as they thought.

Juan Cole

WarThoughtNationalismEasyGoing

I don't understand this concept of women-oriented films or stories based on women, because nobody uses the term, a 'man-oriented' film. Why do you have to separate girls from boys?

Disha Patani

WomenYouNobodyWhyUnderstand

We're a really close family, and that was what my grandparents promoted.

Deborah Joy Winans

FamilyGrandparentsCloseReally

The future doesn't exist. The only thing that exists is now and our memory of what happened in the past. But because we invented the idea of a future, we're the only animal that realized we can affect the future by what we do today.

David Suzuki

FutureTodayPastAnimalMemoryNow

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