Beatrice Webb Quotes

It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity.

Beatrice Webb

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: sociologist
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: January 2, 1858 - April 30, 1943

Topics

CuriousIdentityMysteriousDiary

I don't think of myself as either American or Australian really, I'm a true hybrid. It's a good thing for me because both of them are really good countries.

Mel Gibson

GoodMyselfMeThinkAmericanTrue

I can't tell you why I keep getting asked to play gay characters, but I never really considered 'gay' as an adjective, as a playable thing. Maybe it's an element of the character, but it just describes a preference.

John Michael Higgins

CharacterYouGayPlayWhyNever

Robert Benchley has a style that is weak and lies down frequently to rest.

Max Eastman

StyleRestDownWeakLiesRobert

Is France a completely open market to G.E.? No, of course not. I think we're more discerning about China because it's China, and they're big, and they're more concerning. But the best global companies are ones that are nuanced.

Jeffrey R. Immelt

BestThinkMoreOpenChinaBig

I'll always have a relationship with Scotland.

John Tiffany

RelationshipAlwaysScotland

I always say, 'Let your experiment speak to you.' What I mean by that is I - actually, we, or, at least, I'm not smart enough, actually, to guess how nature is working, but by looking and doing the right experiments and paying close attention to the subtleties of it, you start to catch on.

Roderick MacKinnon

NatureSmartLookingStartSpeak

I try to teach through my opinions, through my speeches, how wrong it is to judge people on the basis of what they look like, color of their skin, whether they're men or women.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

WomenMenPeopleColorJudgeLook

The ancient Greeks were the first ones to say an unexamined life is not worth living. They don't tell you of course what we found out, an examined life not that fascinating either.

Colin Quinn

LifeWorthYouSayLivingFirst

I think one of the reasons people quit is because they're afraid they won't be able to get better and better; that they have to come to a zenith of some kind.

Conrad Hall

PeopleThinkBetterQuitKindGet

I fear dying in the middle of a book. It would be so annoying to write 80,000 words and not get to the end. I'm phobic about it. So when I'm writing a book I leave messages all over the house for people to know how the story ends, and then someone can finish it for me.

Anthony Horowitz

FearWordsPeopleMeWritingBook

If a reporter doesn't like the person he's writing about, it shows up in his article.

Willie Stargell

WritingPersonUpReporterLikeHe

I could hardly believe that she really existed, that she wasn't a dream. There was something miraculous about Dorothy Stratten.

Peter Bogdanovich

BelieveDreamSheSomethingReally

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