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E. W. Howe Quotes

Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: May 3, 1853 - October 3, 1937

Topics

Common Sense Enthusiasm Way Without

I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'

Thought Name Say My Own Always Own

We have a song, 'Welcome to the Family' - we realized for the first time in our lives that people go through this every day around the world. There is someone very close to them that they're losing, every day. That song is, 'We know how you're feeling.'

Family Time Day Welcome Losing Song

I have written some songs, but I would really call what I've done poetry at the end of the day, because I'll sit with my guitar for hours and hours on end for, like, a week and then I won't touch it for a month. I also just have no confidence. And you know what? I don't have time, because I'd rather be doing other things, like knitting.

Amanda Seyfried

Confidence Time Day Poetry End You

It is a form of arrogance to assume that other people are even thinking about you.

People Thinking Arrogance You Assume

I live a sensible life. You know, I don't take on too much.

Life Live You Too Much Know Take

Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.

Smart People World Impossible Enough

To reasoned people, almost everything is understandable, but evil is forever incomprehensible.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

People Evil Everything Forever

It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance, sweeps away all obstacles.

Claude M. Bristol

Effort Obstacles Down Resistance

I don't paint. I am a hobbyist photographer, so I relate to the visual arts that way, but I'm not a painter.

I Am Way Photographer Paint Arts Am

As an actor I kind of do. I started out doing voice overs in the mid 80s when I was in grad school.

Thomas Haden Church

School Voice Doing Kind Actor Out

When you think of the later '50s and 'Far From Heaven' and Eisenhower and Sirk, you think of that Hollywood panache and gloss to American middle-class life.

Life Think American You Heaven Far

The fact is, after a certain age, high heels can feel as painful as someone sticking hot pins into the soles of your feet.

Age Feet Feel Someone High Heels

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