Edna St. Vincent Millay Quotes

It is high time we found out about this man Cummings. Let us give him every opportunity to show us at once whether he is a genius, a charlatan, or a congenital defective - and get him off our minds.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 22, 1892 - October 19, 1950

Topics

OpportunityTimeManGeniusMinds

We understand that conglomerates have no future.

Joe Kaeser

FutureUnderstandNo Future

It's far too much to say that effective hoping is the only - or even the biggest - part of what it takes to succeed. If 14% of business productivity can be attributed to hope, that means 86% is dependent on raw talent, fickle business cycles, the quality of the product you're selling, and often pure, dumb luck.

Jeffrey Kluger

BusinessHopeQualityTalentLuck

White-on-white crime is a devastation in America like so-called black-on-black crime. It's not black or white-on-white crime. It's proximity murder.

Michael Eric Dyson

BlackAmericaCrimeLikeProximity

I've always admired the kind of guy who moves into a place and restores it. Thanks to my efforts, the guy who moves into mine will have a chance to do just that.

Michael Feldman

ChancePlaceKindWillThanksGuy

The rapid growth in many of our suburbs has spawned a booming construction industry eager to hire low wage immigrants who gladly fill these jobs, many of them happy to be paid in cash, free of federal and state taxes.

Spencer Bachus

GrowthHappyConstructionFreeTaxes

My father has acted in over 700 films. My mother acted in one film, 'Kismat with Mithun Chakraborty,' in which my father also had a role. My father fell in love with her and would drive her around in his sports car, and they subsequently got married. My mom is the most beautiful woman and I think she has taken some serum to look young all her life.

Shraddha Kapoor

LifeLoveFatherMotherCarSports

Sometimes, you get too hopped up, too excited, and it works against you.

Tommy Lasorda

YouSometimesUpExcitedAgainst

When my elders mentioned 'The War,' they invariably meant that of 1914-1918, even after 1939, for the Second World War was merely the continuation of the first, 'an armistice of 20 years,' as Marshal Foch had accurately predicted at the Versailles Peace Conference, with some changes of side.

Michael Korda

PeaceWarWorldEldersChangesSide

People don't understand what music really is. I've been a musician since I was 6 years old. I got my first piano, was playing recitals at 8, 10 I picked up a guitar, 12 I picked up my first Pearl Master drum set. I was an artist before I was an 'artist.'

Mitchel Musso

MusicPeopleGuitarArtistFirst

I think the child I was until 12 was so much more interesting than the teenager I became.

Judy Blume

ChildThinkInterestingMoreThan

I see interracial couples all the time in Nashville. I'm a Jew in Nashville. I'm a gay person in Nashville. It's a non-issue in most of the time. That's a huge leap forward.

Janis Ian

TimeForwardGayPersonLeapSee

I hate heights, that's the most terrifying thing for me.

Jonathan Knight

HateMeHeightsMostTerrifying

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