Has Beens Quotes (page 147)

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• time
• sleep
• look

I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep. Walt Whitman

• work
• power
• end

God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits. William S. Paley

• hair
• hairs
• lot

My hair has been mocked a lot. Bradley Cooper

• inspirational
• work
• world

Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind. Calvin Coolidge

• business
• busy
• mind

Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business. Calvin Coolidge

• advertisement
• almost
• entire

Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising. Calvin Coolidge

• personality
• personal
• honorably

No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave. Calvin Coolidge

• growth
• genius
• beautiful

Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed. George Henry Lewes

• imports
• discovers
• said

Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it. Alfred North Whitehead

• thankful
• intellectual
• people

What has been forgotten is that there were major intellectual breakthroughs in the 1960s, thanks to North American writers of an older generation. There was a rupture in continuity, since most young people influenced by those breakthroughs did not enter the professions. Camille Paglia

• book
• picture
• thoughts

My thought has been shaped by books; my desires by pictures. Mason Cooley

• art
• school
• career

Because most of my career in the classroom has been at art schools (beginning at Bennington in the 1970s), I am hyper-aware of the often grotesque disconnect between commentary on the arts and the actual practice or production of the arts. Camille Paglia

• life
• family
• nature

Adoption has been a part of my life and a part of my family, so it was how I wanted to start. It felt natural and right to me. Katherine Heigl

• bible
• book
• comparing

I know of no book which has been a source of brutality and sadistic conduct, both public and private, that can compare with the Bible. James Paget

• giving
• free
• best

The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own. Alistair Cooke