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Edna Ferber Quotes

A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects.

Edna Ferber

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Beautiful Tree Man Potential Living

Some of the stage outfits I've got are ridiculous. I'll lay out clothes to pack, and it'll look like Polly Pocket clothing - because it's all stretchy, it's tiny. I don't need a case when I tour; I can fit it all in my handbag.

Jessie J

Clothes Look I Can Ridiculous Need

I have all the patience in the world about Sirens. For me it's not a Grateful Dead project, it's a Me project.

Jerry Garcia

Patience Grateful Me World Project

To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size.

John B. S. Haldane

Socialism Problem Size Biologist

The Rilo Kiley song 'A Better Son/Daughter' is my most requested song - especially for people who are at the age I was when I wrote it. It's sort of a mid-twenties lament.

Jenny Lewis

Age People Song Better Who Most

Your job as a superstar is to manipulate the audience and try to tell your story. I like the dynamic of the audience.

John Cena

Job Story Try Audience Tell Dynamic

Luckily I haven't fallen into the trap, which has claimed so many writers, of living from day to day thinking 'Ah, I'll write a book about that.'

Amelie Nothomb

Day Book Thinking Living Write Trap

I'm a big believer in the way ritual can put us in connection with our spirituality.

Sue Monk Kidd

Connection Way Big Us Our Ritual

As an actor, it's much easier for me to get work in the movies because nobody knows who I am except for the work that I've done in another movie. I really enjoy that.

Simon McBurney

Work I Am Me Enjoy Nobody Done

You need, in order to run a country as diverse as ours, a prominently recognized news source.

Tucker Carlson

You Country News Run Need Source

History is a heavy thing everywhere.

Tracy K. Smith

History Heavy Everywhere Thing

I have no organisational skills. All my energy goes into worry - worrying takes a lot of energy.

Rita Rudner

Energy Worry Skills Worrying Takes

Baking has always been one of my many hobbies. After I uploaded my first baking tutorial video, I got a really positive response from the online community, and they started to demand more videos like that.

Rosanna Pansino

Positive Community Baking Hobbies