#own

Tis this desire of bending all things to our own purposes which turns them into confusion and is the chief source of every error in our lives. ↗

— Sarah Fielding

#bending #chief #confusion #desire #error

Looking back 25 years later, what I may say is that the facts have been far better than the dreams. In the long course of cell life on this earth it remained, for our age for our generation, to receive the full ownership of our inheritance. ↗

— Albert Claude

#back #been #better #cell #course

My countrymen have commissioned a bust of the Republic. It will be placed on the fountain of my native town. ↗

— Camille Claudel

#commissioned #countrymen #fountain #native #placed

Elizabeth Barrett Browning could write a poem two pages long. Could she have brought it to a music publisher? ↗

— Dorothy Fields

#browning #could #elizabeth #long #music

For decathletes, our event goes all throughout the day so you're trying to go up and down and up and down emotionally and physically and you know mentally you're just on a roller coaster. ↗

— Bryan Clay

#day #down #emotionally #event #go

The songwriter mustn't fall in love with his own song. If it doesn't belong, he can't push it into a show. Let him save it; maybe it'll fit in another show. ↗

— Dorothy Fields

#belong #fall #fit #him #his

A farmer travelling with his load Picked up a horseshoe on the road, And nailed if fast to his barn door, That luck might down upon him pour; That every blessing known in life Might crown his homestead and his wife, And never any kind of harm Descend upon his growing farm. ↗

— James Thomas Fields

#barn #blessing #crown #descend #door

A woman came up to me after one of the screenings with tears pouring down her face and sobbed, You've defined my entire life for me on the screen. ↗

— Jill Clayburgh

#came #defined #down #entire #entire life

People always seem to see echoes of their own lives in my films. ↗

— Jill Clayburgh

#echoes #films #lives #own #people

Women can break down barriers to opportunity, and men, many of them reluctantly, have learned to relate to women as their equals in thought and action. But except for an eccentric few, women do not want to become warriors. ↗

— Suzanne Fields

#barriers #become #break #down #eccentric