Avis Crowe Quotes

#1. The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life, a purchase by which we may move it ... we see literature best from the midst of wild nature, or from the din of affairs, or from a high religion. The field cannot be well seen from within the field.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. Shut off the internal bashing.

Melody Carlson

#3. KISS is Las Vegas entertainment. A musician doesn't need the mask.

Carlos Santana

#4. Another dead body at the amusement park," she said. "Wholesome family fun at its finest.

Jennifer Hillier

#5. I started in live television and I've done a lot of live TV and that's really the thing that I love best. I love flying by the seat of my pants.

Florence Henderson

#6. Would it be all right if I visited Meg after school each day for a few hours?" "Actually, that would be great, but only if you are up for it." I reached my hand to Meg's foot and wiggled her socked big toe.

D.A. Roach

#7. Methinks Sir Robert should have carried his Monarchical Power one step higher and satisfied the World, that Princes might eat their Subjects too.

John Locke

#8. My focus is to not focus too much on one genre.

Amanda Seyfried

#9. The pressure is on the women to be particularly small, and then not only that, the whole package. It's extreme.

Benjamin Koldyke

#10. Quit waiting for others to give to you; it is not going to happen.

Bryant McGill

#11. No prayers, no medicines, merely the ineffable happiness of dying.

Isabelle Eberhardt

#12. I think my father would have liked to have been an artist, actually. But I think he didn't quite have perhaps the drive or, I don't know, I mean he had a family to bring up I suppose.

David Hockney

#13. Is life much too long for an immortal?

Erica Jong

#14. As more workers lose manufacturing jobs as companies cut back, some are being forced into lower-paying retail jobs. But they still have union cards in their wallets.

Bill Dedman

#15. Every noble work is at first impossible.

Thomas Carlyle