Edward Eager Quotes

#1. Bean felt a rush of sweet nostalgia for the woman who had introduced us to E. Nesbit and Edward Eager and Laura Ingalls Wilder ...

Eleanor Brown

#2. There was a young woman named Fleager
Who was terribly, terribly eager
To be all the rage
On the tragedy stage,
Though her talents were pitifully meagre.

Edward Gorey

#3. Once I talked to the inmates of an insane asylum in Hartford. I have talked to idiots a thousand times, but only once to the insane ...

Mark Twain

#4. My big break was becoming the spokesperson for Texas Instruments. Casting directors really started giving me a chance to read for projects.

Bella Thorne

#5. Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for it. And to kill for it.

Edward Abbey

#6. I don't want to be remembered as 'the son of Bruce Lee'.

Brandon Lee

#7. I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university.

Hubert H. Humphrey

#8. I was consumed by the mystery Edward presented. And more than a little obsessed by Edward himself. Stupid, stupid, stupid. I wasn't as eager to escape Forks as I should be, as any normal, sane person would be.

Stephenie Meyer

#9. If I was being honest with myself, I knew I was eager to get to school because I would see Edward Cullen. And that was very, very stupid.

Stephenie Meyer

#10. The best kind of book," said Barnaby, "is a magic book." "Naturally," said John.

Edward Eager

#11. I won't marry you," she repeated.
"Why not? You were eager enough to fuck me."
Anna winced. "I do wish you would stop using that word."
Edward swung around and assumed a hideously sarcastic expression. "Would you prefer swive? Tup? Dance the buttock jig?

Elizabeth Hoyt

#12. Oh, how proper we seem to ourselves when we have no reason to be improper! It takes being in love to know something about yourself. Sometimes, with you, I feel like the slut of the world, the eager, faithful slut of the world. Does that seem proper to you?

John Edward Williams

#13. Human folk are as a matter of fact eager to find intelligence in animals.

Edward Thorndike

#14. Belief is the wound that knowledge heals.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#15. But I'm worse. I'm a child playing dress-up, who can't even recognize herself under her own costume.

Stephanie Perkins

#16. Michael Harris opens the doors and gently guides you into a magic world. Once inside, you can't help but feel mesmerized, eager to see how deep the rabbit hole goes. And no wonder: a major thinker of our time is talking to you about math and so much more, like you've never heard before.

Edward Frenkel

#17. Still, even without the country or a lake, the summer was a fine thing, particularly when you were at the beginning of it, looking ahead into it. There would be months of beautifully long, empty days, and each other to play with, and the books from the library.

Edward Eager

#18. Everything I did actually helped to build the revenue, shall we say, of experience, which enabled me to play a variety of roles as I got older.

Angela Lansbury

#19. Well as giraffes say, you don't get no leaves unless you stick your neck out.

Sid Waddell

#20. Bachelor parties are designed for those who are sad to see the passing of their single days. I couldn't be more eager to have mine behind me. So there's really no point.

Stephenie Meyer

#21. Surprise is the beginning of wisdom.

David Gelernter

#22. So eager for eternal damnation.

Stephenie Meyer

#23. I felt excited to go to school, and that scared me. I knew it wasn't the simulating learning environment I was anticipating, or seeing my new set of friends. If I was being honest with myself, I knew I was eager to get to school because I would see Edward Culllen. And that was very, very stupid.

Stephenie Meyer

#24. Who steals my purse steals trash," he said, "but who steals my sword steals honor itself, and him will I harry by wood and by water till I cleave him from his brainpan to his thighbone!

Edward Eager

#25. That's so," said Eliza. "Vacation ends next month. I start Latin this year. They say it's awful. You decline nouns. All _I_ can say is, who wouldn't?

Edward Eager

#26. and a hundred savage painted Indians ran howling down upon the inn yard.

Edward Eager

#27. No local church can afford to go without the encouragement and nourishment that will come to it by sending away its best people.

David Penman

#28. Small groups of persons can, and do, make the rest of us think what they please about a given subject. But there are usually proponents and opponents of every propaganda, both of whom are equally eager to convince the majority.

Edward Bernays