Top 86 Will Bowen Quotes
#1. 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
#2. Cats are notoriously picky about who they like. And if a cat doesn't like its owner it will go and find another one. Cats do that all the time.
James Bowen
#3. Well there are tough decisions necessary in budgets. I agree there are tough decisions necessary to ensure the long-term health of the budget. What I don't accept and will never accept is that those decisions must be unfair as a matter of course.
Chris Bowen
#4. There's a post-it note stuck on one of the padded arms. I snatch it up and skim Wes's familiar chicken-scratch scrawl. Dude at the store said this one will be better for our backs. Ten different massage settings. We should use it on our balls and see if it doubles as a sex toy. Fingers crossed.
Sarina Bowen
#5. I have a bumper sticker that Bowen created that says Regardless of my kids grades, they have an 'A' in my book'. Without play the child that still lives in all of us will always be incomplete. And not only physically, but creatively, intellectually, and spiritually as well.
George A. Sheehan
#6. All my life I have said, "Whatever happens there will always be tables and chairs"
and what a mistake.
Elizabeth Bowen
#7. 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
#8. Dear Miss Bowen, he begins. He hopes that he will receive another letter in turn.
Erin Morgenstern
#9. 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
#10. Fashion seems to exist for an abstract person who is not you or me.
Elizabeth Bowen
#11. 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
#12. We believe in the empowerment of women and we will not compromise in that goal.
Chris Bowen
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea.
Elizabeth Bowen
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. More students have a better knowledge of pop culture than of the Constitution.
Charles Bowen
#20. 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
#21. The most steady, the most self-sufficient nature depends, more than it knows, on its few chosen stimuli.
Elizabeth Bowen
#22. I try not to look backwards, Elise. Makes is hard to see where you're going.
Kelly Bowen
#23. Ralph Waldo Emerson is believed to have said, "Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.
Will Bowen
#24. The man who receives gifts from God, receives an appointment from God; namely, that of donor; and the wisdom to discharge the functions connected with this appointment will surely not be withheld, if it be ingenuously asked.
George Bowen
#25. A belief is an absolute but arbitrary mental stance.
Will Bowen
#26. People in Africa have a well-deserved reputation for being happy. This may explain why: there is no word in Swahili for "sarcasm" therefore Africans have no concept of saying something and having it mean a playfully snide version of the opposite.
Will Bowen
#27. But in general, for the purposes of most novelists, the number of objects genuinely necessary for ... describing a scene will be found to be very small.
Elizabeth Bowen
#28. Before we can consider which way to go from where we are, we must agree on where we want to end up. If our desire is to become happy, then let's begin by having a realistic understanding of what it means to be happy.
Will Bowen
#29. looked up. "Maybe that will jog someone's memory and make them come
Rhys Bowen
#30. What is being said is the effect of something that has happened; at the same time, what is being said is in itself something happening, which will, in turn, leave its effect.
Elizabeth Bowen
#31. You must show him your monkey: I am sure he will like that.
Elizabeth Bowen
#32. It will never be altogether well with us till we convert the universe into a prayer room ...
George Bowen
#33. You can spare yourself discomfort by keeping your distance, by remaining safely aloof, by maintaining what are largely superficial friendships. But if you do, you will deprive yourselves, and others, of one of the greatest opportunities for learning and for personal growth. - William Bowen
Peter Slevin
#34. 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
#35. You really do love me, huh?"
"Always have." I swallowed hard. "Always will.
Sarina Bowen
#36. Happy people are not people without problems; they are people who face their problems and at some point make a decision to move past them.
Will Bowen
#37. We remain committed to the conference and fully anticipate that the Big 12 will honor its commitment to Texas A&M.
R. Bowen Loftin
#38. I read books more than I go out. As a matter of fact, I get a little concerned about some of my anti-social habits. I will choose a night with Somerset Maugham or Russell Banks over a crowded bar any day.
Julie Bowen
#39. Misery not only loves company, it derives validation from it.
Will Bowen
#40. Its an onion tree. Every time Sam takes off an onion, two more will grow in its place.
Gail Bowen
#42. But before we get started, does anyone, uh, have any questions for me?" There's a long silence. Finally, Barrie raises his hand, and I hold my breath as I wait for his question. "Will Ryan Wesley come to one of our games?
Sarina Bowen
#44. I do like Italian graves; they look so much more lived in.
Elizabeth Bowen
#45. Love of privacy - perhaps because of the increasing exactions of society - has become in many people almost pathological.
Elizabeth Bowen
#46. Rudeness to Mrs. Dosely was like dropping a pat of butter on to a hot plate - it slid and melted away.
Elizabeth Bowen
#47. People are so easily impressed by running, but I run pretty frequently.
Julie Bowen
#48. You know what rumors are like-like a jar full of moths. Once they escape, they're all over the place.
Rhys Bowen
#49. Forgiveness should be an act, but this is a state with him.
Elizabeth Bowen
#50. 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
#51. To have a part that is written for you certainly helps an actor.
A. J. Bowen
#53. 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
#54. Dialogue in fiction is what characters do to one another.
Elizabeth Bowen
#55. 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
#56. I'm an incredibly intelligent, insightful human being.
A. J. Bowen
#57. Without fiction, either life would be insufficient or the winds from the north would blow too cold.
Elizabeth Bowen
#58. Marriage under law is a union of equals," she
Sarina Bowen
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. I was class mom at the preschool one year and I was pretty much asked not to do that again!
Julie Bowen
#64. At Spezia when I am angry I go full of smoke inside, but when you make me angry I see everything.
Elizabeth Bowen
#66. Characters are not created by writers. They pre-exist and have to be found.
Elizabeth Bowen
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. After inside upheavals, it is important to fix on imperturbable things. Their imperturbableness, their air that nothing has happened renews our guarantee.
Elizabeth Bowen
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. I don't always run in the mornings, but I am definitely better if I run in the mornings.
Julie Bowen
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. Running was the first thing I discovered that I was any good at.
Julie Bowen
#76. 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
#77. What was the use of being grown up if you couldn't take a little risk now and then?
William Bowen
#78. The words hot, lot, and got were not apart of a ladies vocabulary.
Rhys Bowen
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. [A writer] should try not to be too far, personally, below the level of his work.
Elizabeth Bowen
#82. 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
#83. Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.
Elizabeth Bowen
#84. 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
#85. Maybe I can convince you to kiss me again. I'm right here, honey. Come get me.
Sarina Bowen
#86. Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.
Elizabeth Bowen
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