R Lowell Quotes

#1. There are two kinds of genius. The first and highest may be said to speak out of the eternal to the present, and must compel its age to understand it; the second understands its age, and tells it what it wishes to be told.

James Russell Lowell

#2. The right to be a cussed fool Is safe from all devices human, It's common (ez a gin'I rule) To every critter born of woman.

James Russell Lowell

#3. We couldn't get it off the ground as a film, but then we begin to think television, and Lowell pushed it out there and Jim and Nick were anxious to do Hap and Leonard anyway, and I had worked with them before, so it was a perfect story. I love the series. I hope there's a second.

Joe R. Lansdale

#4. With every step of the recent traveler our inheritance of the wonderful is diminished. Those beautiful pictured notes of the possible are redeemed at a ruinous discount in the hard coin of the actual.

James Russell Lowell

#5. Lowell is my home. It is where I drew my first breath. It is where I will always derive a sense of place and a sense of belonging

Paul Tsongas

#6. In vain we call old notions fudge, And bend our conscience to our dealing; The Ten Commandments will not budge, And stealing will continue stealing.

James Russell Lowell

#7. In life's small things be resolute and great To keep thy muscle trained; Know'st thou when Fate Thy measure takes, or when she'll say to thee, "I find thee worthy; do this deed for me?"

James Russell Lowell

#8. All thoughts that mold the age begin deep down within the primitive soul.

James Russell Lowell

#9. It is the vain endeavor to make ourselves what we are not that has strewn history with so many broken purposes and lives left in the rough.

James Russell Lowell

#10. The mark of an educated man is the ability to make a reasoned guess on the basis of insufficient information.

Abbott Lawrence Lowell

#11. The sentimentalist does not think of what he does so much as of what the world will think of what he does.

James Russell Lowell

#12. I must be mad, or very tired, When the curve of a blue bay beyond a railroad track Is shrill and sweet to me like the sudden springing of a tune, And the sight of a white church above thin trees in a city square Amazes my eyes as though it were the Parthenon.

Amy Lowell

#13. A marciful Providunce fashioned us holler O' purpose thet we might our principles swaller.

James Russell Lowell

#14. Let us be of cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

Amy Lowell

#15. The green grass floweth like a stream
Into the oceans's blue.

James Russell Lowell

#16. I only read on my phone and the whole "let's see if we can get people to do it" idea seems less "wouldn't it be cool if we could get people to do it" and more "what else would people do."

Nathan Lowell

#17. I really love diving in, head first, with directing and not having to worry about hair, makeup or lines.

Chris Lowell

#18. A woman of intense feeling, head thrown back, hair wild, lips open upon a cry of unbelievable pleasure.
The enchanted.
A warrior both disciplined and passionate, his whole being focused in the moment.
The enchanter.
Now he is bending down to her, drinking her cries ...

Elizabeth Lowell

#19. The quiet tenderness of Chaucer, where you almost seem to hear the hot tears falling, and the simple choking words sobbed out.

James Russell Lowell

#20. Moral supremacy is the only one that leaves monuments, and not ruins, behind it.

James Russell Lowell

#21. My soul is not a palace of the past ...

James Russell Lowell

#22. When I was a beggarly boy, And lived in a cellar damp, I had not a friend nor a toy, But I had Aladdin's lamp ...

James Russell Lowell

#23. Piety is indifferent whether she enters at the eye or at the ear. There is none of the senses at which she does not knock one day or other. The Puritans forgot this, and thrust Beauty out of the meeting-house and slammed the door in her face.

James Russell Lowell

#24. Men have their intellectual ancestry, and the likeness of some one of them is forever unexpectedly flashing out in the features of a descendant, it may be after a gap of several centuries. In the parliament of the present every man represents a constituency of the past.

James Russell Lowell

#25. My father's nephew was the blues musician, Lowell Fulson. Every time he came around, he had a pretty car, a beautiful woman and a slick sharkskin suit. Believe it or not, that's how I decided I wanted to get into music.

Charlie Wilson

#26. Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, that you are dreadfully like other people.

James Russell Lowell

#27. God is not dumb, that he should speak no more;
If thou hast wanderings in the wilderness
And find'st not Sinai, 'tis thy soul is poor.

James Russell Lowell

#28. Making one object, in outward or inward nature, more holy to a single heart is reward enough for a life; for the more sympathies we gain or awaken for what is beautiful, by so much deeper will be our sympathy for that which is most beautiful,
the human soul!

James Russell Lowell

#29. Attention is the stuff that memory is made of, and memory is accumulated genius.

James Russell Lowell

#30. Beyond Stone Ring Keep's high walls, the wind wailed of coming winter. Ariane didn't hear the mournful cry. She heard nothing but echoes

Elizabeth Lowell

#31. There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.

James Russell Lowell

#32. For there's nothing we read of in torture's inventions, Like a well-meaning dunce, with the best of intentions.

James Russell Lowell