Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edna Ferber

I'm tired of hearing you men say that this and that and the other isn't woman's work. Any work is woman's work that a woman can do well.

Edna Ferber

Whoever said love conquers all was a fool. Because almost everything conquers love - or tries to.

Edna Ferber

Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.

Edna Ferber

If it's freedom you want, come to Texas. No one there tells you what to do and how you have to do it.

Edna Ferber

It sounds so far away and different. I like different places. I like any places that isn't here.

Edna Ferber

Take Texas the way Texas takes bourbon. Straight. It goes down easier.

Edna Ferber

There are only two kinds of people in the world that really count. One kind's wheat and the other kind's emeralds.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

If ever I said in grief or pride, I'd tired of honest things, I lied.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

The fabric of my faithful love No power shall dim or ravel Whilst I stay here - but oh, my dear, If I should ever travel!

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Please don't think me negligent or rude. I am both, in effect, of course, but please don't think me either.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Time can make soft that iron wood.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Not Truth, but Faith it is that keeps the world alive.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

If I could have two things in one: the peace of the grave, and the light of the sun.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

I, being born a woman and distressed By all the needs and notions of my kind, Am urged by your propinquity to find Your person fair, and feel a certain zest To bear your body's weight upon my breast; So subtly is the fume of life designed, To clarify the pulse and cloud the mind, And leave me once again undone, possessed. Think not for this, however, the poor treason Of my stout blood against my staggering brain, I shall remember you with love, or season My scorn with pity, - let me make it plain: I find this frenzy insufficient reason For conversation when we meet again.

Edgar Winter

The mountain is high, the valley is low, and you're confused on which way to go. So I've come here to give you a hand, and lead you into the promised land. So, come on and take a free ride, come on and sit here by my side, come on and take a free ride!

Edgar Winter

I used to go to these old tent revivals and listen to the gospel singers. If you think rock and roll is energetic, it pales in comparison to a Pentecostal tent revival.

Edgar Wright

I think when I was getting into directing, or wanting to be a director, when I was a teenager, the two films that really inspired me were Raising Arizona and Evil Dead II. And in the case of the former, I thought, "Wow. Why don't all comedies look like this?" And then as I started doing comedy, particularly when I started doing it on TV.

Edgar Wright

I think it's good to have pressure on yourself. The worst crime is to get kind of really complacent.

Edgar Wright

In a weird way, riffing on genres is kind of a reaction to formula. When you watch so much of the programmers and the films that you just think you've seen before, it's kind of going back to the well in terms of trying to conjure up the spirit of what made you excited about films in the first place.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

I do not think that I am ever overconfident. I am merely wholly confident, and I maintain that there is all the difference in the world there.

Edgar Lee Masters

Such phantom blossoms palely shining Over the lifeless boughs of Time.

Edgar Lee Masters

To this generation I would say: Memorize some bit of verse of truth or beauty.

Edgar Guest

Now seeds are just dimes to the man in the store And the dimes are the things that he needs, And I've been to buy them in seasons before But have thought of them merely as seeds; But it flashed through my mind as I took them this time, "You purchased a miracle here for a dime."

Edgar Guest

You are the person who has to decide. Whether you'll do it or toss it aside.

Edgar Guest

If you never take a chance, you will never be defeated - but you will never accomplish anything either.

Edgar Mitchell

I call it "the big picture effect." Getting to see earth as a small planet and to see it in that perspective, seeing it in the heavens as a planet as opposed to being down here among it, most of the people, in fact, I guess all of the people who have had that experience, shift their thinking.

Edgar Mitchell

There is a major problem of unsustainability of our environment, and we're seeing it in our natural resources, peak oil is probably upon us, and it can't be sustained. We're on an unsustainable path, and at this point in history we are responsible for that. We're going to have to change our ways. We're going to have to think through this problem.

How can I be in two places at once, unless I were a bird?

Brad Carson

In the U.S. I think there are really two reasons we should pursue energy policy. One is climate change, and the second is this notion that the oil market is cartel-ized by people, some of whom are friendly, some of whom are not, some of whom are in a more ambivalent position to us.

Brad Carson

I think you could offer seven or eight different possible ends for energy policy. Climate change is one of them. Dealing with criteria pollutants is one of those related to that.

Brad Bird

We make films that we ourselves would want to see and then hope that other people would want to see it. If you try to analyze audiences or think there's some sophisticated recipe for success, then I think you are doomed. You're making it too complicated.

Brad Bird

I think it's the most extraordinary studio around. I would love to do my next project with Pixar.

Brad Bird

I absolutely think that hand-drawn animation is valid and I actually hope to do one in the future with a large budget.