Top 100 Bowen Quotes
#1. What was the use of being grown up if you couldn't take a little risk now and then?
William Bowen
#3. At Spezia when I am angry I go full of smoke inside, but when you make me angry I see everything.
Elizabeth Bowen
#4. I was class mom at the preschool one year and I was pretty much asked not to do that again!
Julie Bowen
#5. I do find it odd people choose to do stuff that makes them look like crazy Hollywood faces, but I've got zero judgment.
Julie Bowen
#6. In big houses in which things are done properly, there is always the religious element. The diurnal cycle is observed with more feeling when there are servants to do the work.
Elizabeth Bowen
#7. Good-byes breed a sort of distaste for whomever you say good-bye to; this hurts, you feel, this must not happen again.
Elizabeth Bowen
#8. Could a mare only like mares or stallions, or could a mare like whatever she damn pleased? Maybe she just didn't know enough yet to understand what she was or what she wanted. Or maybe she was lots of things, just as her skin was a mixture of browns. Maybe she didn't have to like anything.
Lila Bowen
#9. Marriage under law is a union of equals," she
Sarina Bowen
#10. Without fiction, either life would be insufficient or the winds from the north would blow too cold.
Elizabeth Bowen
#11. I'm an incredibly intelligent, insightful human being.
A. J. Bowen
#12. I do like Italian graves; they look so much more lived in.
Elizabeth Bowen
#13. Dialogue in fiction is what characters do to one another.
Elizabeth Bowen
#14. Short of a small range of physical acts-a fight, murder, lovemaking-dialogue is the most vigorous and visible inter-action of which characters in a novel are capable. Speech is what characters do to each other.
Elizabeth Bowen
#16. To have a part that is written for you certainly helps an actor.
A. J. Bowen
#17. Dialogue is the ideal means of showing what is between the characters. It crystallizes relationships. It should, ideally, be so effective as to make analysis or explanation of the relationships between the characters unnecessary.
Elizabeth Bowen
#18. Forgiveness should be an act, but this is a state with him.
Elizabeth Bowen
#19. You know what rumors are like-like a jar full of moths. Once they escape, they're all over the place.
Rhys Bowen
#20. People are so easily impressed by running, but I run pretty frequently.
Julie Bowen
#21. Rudeness to Mrs. Dosely was like dropping a pat of butter on to a hot plate - it slid and melted away.
Elizabeth Bowen
#22. Love of privacy - perhaps because of the increasing exactions of society - has become in many people almost pathological.
Elizabeth Bowen
#23. I have never felt as raw as I feel right now. I've just discovered that falling in love has a dark side.
Sarina Bowen
#24. Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.
Elizabeth Bowen
#25. Maybe I can convince you to kiss me again. I'm right here, honey. Come get me.
Sarina Bowen
#26. I became, and remain, my characters' close and intent watcher: their director, never. Their creator I cannot feel that I was, or am.
Elizabeth Bowen
#27. Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.
Elizabeth Bowen
#28. My family was very encouraging, and both of my grandparents were both beautiful singers. My grandmother was a coloratura soprano, and my grandfather was an Irish tenor in a barbershop quartet.
Clare Bowen
#29. [A writer] should try not to be too far, personally, below the level of his work.
Elizabeth Bowen
#30. I would love her and care for her all of my days," Bowen said quietly. "There is no other man who would ever love her more.
Maya Banks
#31. Be persistent and never give up. I had to deal with facing stereotypes and had a lot of people doubt me and my ability to drum, but I didn't let it phase me. You just have to believe in yourself. And of course, PRACTICE.
Jess Bowen
#32. The words hot, lot, and got were not apart of a ladies vocabulary.
Rhys Bowen
#33. Characters are not created by writers. They pre-exist and have to be found.
Elizabeth Bowen
#34. Our mouths meet in another kiss. Soft this time. Agonizingly slow. It's not enough. I'll stop it soon, any second now, but not yet. Not until he gives me more.
Sarina Bowen
#35. Running was the first thing I discovered that I was any good at.
Julie Bowen
#36. Most faculty spend a lot of time thinking about content and what to cover, but content delivery is not the core strength of a university, just as it is not for newspapers. The core strength of a university is integration.
Jose Antonio Bowen
#37. He's already one up on me. He's been on the receiving end of a couple of Hottie's kisses.
I've got nothing. It's the first time I've ever been jealous of my dog.
Sarina Bowen
#38. I don't always run in the mornings, but I am definitely better if I run in the mornings.
Julie Bowen
#39. Music's always been a big part of my life, but it kind of all happened in one big ball of storytelling rather than splitting acting and singing apart.
Clare Bowen
#40. Whenever possible I avoid talking. Reprieve from talking is my idea of a holiday. At risk of seeming unsociable, which I am, I admit I love to be left in a beatific trance, when I am in one. Friendly Romans recognize that wish.
Elizabeth Bowen
#41. After inside upheavals, it is important to fix on imperturbable things. Their imperturbableness, their air that nothing has happened renews our guarantee.
Elizabeth Bowen
#42. My parents had an old-fashioned ideal of college, that four years at a liberal arts college should be a liberal arts education.
Julie Bowen
#43. So not every person fits into the little rooms we build to hold them. There are infinite combinations of human and inhuman, male and female, brown and white.
Lila Bowen
#44. Fastow had found someone trusting and pliable.
Fastow wanted a pupet, Bowen concluded, and he already controlled Ben Glisan's strings.
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Kurt Eichenwald
#45. I try not to look backwards, Elise. Makes is hard to see where you're going.
Kelly Bowen
#46. The most steady, the most self-sufficient nature depends, more than it knows, on its few chosen stimuli.
Elizabeth Bowen
#47. I love you. The words are always right there on the tip of my naughty tongue. I swallow them back like I need to and say something much more practical instead. "Have you ever been acquainted with your prostate?
Sarina Bowen
#48. More students have a better knowledge of pop culture than of the Constitution.
Charles Bowen
#49. Young girls like the excess of any quality. Without knowing, they want to suffer, to suffer they must exaggerate; they like to have loud chords struck on them.
Elizabeth Bowen
#50. That dude is a lot like a big, drooly dog. Doesn't matter if he just met you, he wants to lick your face and hump your leg
Sarina Bowen
#51. If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea.
Elizabeth Bowen
#52. When I came back to California in the early '60s I was hanging out with Jimmy Bowen, Phil Spector, and I wanted to be a record producer and work with other artists.
Johnny Rivers
#53. I always loved bluegrass, but there was so much I didn't know about American country music in respect to the origins of this country. It was interesting to see the evolution of it.
Clare Bowen
#54. But there's no end to what's been said, and I'll be a party to nothing. I was born with my mouth shut:those with their mouths open do nothing but start trouble and catch flies.
Elizabeth Bowen
#55. History is not a book, arbitrarily divided into chapters, or a drama chopped into separate acts; it has flowed forward. Rome is a continuity, called 'eternal.' What has accumulated in this place acts on everyone, day and night, like an extra climate.
Elizabeth Bowen
#56. The reality is we live in a world of scarce resources in this veil of tears, as Tony Abbott often describes the world, we have to be real, we have to accept that we can't spend as much money on everything as we would like and so we have chosen to re prioritise, to change spending.
Chris Bowen
#57. Fashion seems to exist for an abstract person who is not you or me.
Elizabeth Bowen
#58. This is the first time I've really looked at my reflection in months." To the Lykae [Bowen], she said, "No wonder you love me. Could I be any cuter?
Kresley Cole
#59. A creature is what it is, even if it can't show its true face.
Lila Bowen
#60. She thought she need not worry about her youth; it wasted itself spontaneously, like sunshine elsewhere or firelight in an empty room.
Elizabeth Bowen
#61. The overall goal [of counseling] is to help family members become 'systems experts' who could know [their] family system so well that the family could readjust itself without the help of an expert.
Murray Bowen
#62. I think it's pretty common for people to get excited when they meet somebody that they know from the media.
Julie Bowen
#63. I think every album serves as a step in your career.
Wade Bowen
#64. There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual.
Catherine Drinker Bowen
#65. I tried to sneak in without him seeing me. It was a stupid move. He was a cat, he had more senses in one of his whiskers than I had in my entire body. No sooner had I opened the door to the building than he was there squeezing his way in.
James Bowen
#66. Dear Miss Bowen, he begins. He hopes that he will receive another letter in turn.
Erin Morgenstern
#67. Quiet laughter fills the tunnel."Now I see why you're so attached to her, Bowen. you're gettin' sugar," Tommy says
Bethany Wiggins
#68. There's a subtext, you know, 'Honey, I'm home' really means, 'take off your clothes and fuck me."
"I never knew that.
Sarina Bowen
#69. Look at what you could have won.
Jim Bowen
#70. My dick and I reached an understanding." "Yeah? And what's that?" I ask curiously. He shrugs. "We both like you.
Sarina Bowen
#71. In 'real life' everything is diluted; in the novel everything is condensed.
Elizabeth Bowen
#72. Are you really an orphan?
Yes, I am, said Portia a shade shortly. Are you?
No, not at present, but I suppose it's a thing one is bound to be.
Elizabeth Bowen
#74. The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do, their victims lie strewn around.
Elizabeth Bowen
#75. I met Clinton at a benefit for teachers, which was a very good charity, but I met him for about 90 seconds, and I thought it was important to meet the leader of the free world. So I stood next to him for a photograph, and then apparently that's all it takes.
Julie Bowen
#77. Henrietta knew of the heart as an organ; she privately saw it covered in red plush and believed that it could not break, though it might tear.
Elizabeth Bowen
#78. I live alone with my one dog and they say it like it's a sad, it's a terrible thing. This woman lives alone with her two cats.
Julie Bowen
#79. As an actor, I function from a place of compassion and empathy - you have to believe 100 percent what your character is doing, because otherwise it will look like it's not real.
Clare Bowen
#80. If Christ does not appear to meet his 144,000 faithful shortly after midnight on February 6th or 7th, it means that my calculations, based on the Bible, must be revised.
Margaret Davis Bowen
#81. Style is the thing that's always a bit phony, and at the same time you cannot write without style.
Elizabeth Bowen
#82. Because a shadow was a thing that defined itself, and Nettie didn't have to fit anyone else's shape.
Lila Bowen
#83. All my life I have said, "Whatever happens there will always be tables and chairs"
and what a mistake.
Elizabeth Bowen
#85. I consider rugged individualism to be an exaggerated pretend posture of a person
struggling against emotional fusion. The differentiated person is always aware of others and the relationship system around him.
Murray Bowen
#86. It turns out that trying to ignore somebody is about the most, exhausting thing in the world.
Sarina Bowen
#88. Childish fantasy, like the sheath over the bud, not only protects but curbs the terrible budding spirit, protects not only innocence from the world, but the world from the power of innocence.
Elizabeth Bowen
#89. When I read a story, I relive the moment from which it sprang. A scene burned itself into me, a building magnetized me, a mood orseason of Nature's penetrated me, history suddenly appeared to me in some tiny act, or a face had begun to haunt me before I glanced at it.
Elizabeth Bowen
#90. I wrap an arm around his waist. If I'm honest, I wanted this as much as the blowjob - the right to just touch him. To lean on him, skin to skin.
Sarina Bowen
#92. We desert those who desert us; we cannot afford to suffer; we must live how we can.
Elizabeth Bowen
#94. They don't hang dukes, darling. He'd be let off by reason of insanity. Everyone knows the upper classes are batty.
Rhys Bowen
#96. Silence sat in the taxi, as though a stranger had got in.
Elizabeth Bowen
#97. Habit, of which passion must be wary, may all the same be the sweetest part of love.
Elizabeth Bowen
#98. One should discuss one's difficulties only when they are over.
Elizabeth Bowen
#99. There's an old saying that a wise man is someone who doesn't grieve for the things which he doesn't have but is grateful for the good things that he does have.
James Bowen
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