Crummell Quotes & Sayings

Marie Caroline Jensen, will you do me the honor of being my permanent bitch? — Joanna Wylde

I remember the first time Bill Fichtner and I had a scene together. I've seen him in a few movies, from 'Armageddon' to 'The Perfect Storm' and 'Contact,' and suddenly he's on a bunk bed and I'm on a bunk bed and we're doing this scene together. That was a real 'pinch me' moment. — Chris Vance

The American Dream may be slipping away. We have overcome such challenges before. To recover the Dream requires knowing where it came from, how it lasted so long and why it matters so much. — Jon Meacham

Our whole life is a meditation of our last decision - the only decision that matters. — Thomas Merton

Are you going? What shall you wear?"
"I shall go in what I am standing in," said Mak Genggang. "A witch is always appropriate whatever her attire. — Zen Cho

It may be no less dangerous to claim, on certain occasions, too little than too much. There is something captivating in spirit and intrepidity, to which we often yield as to a resistless power; nor can we often yield as to a resistless power; nor can he reasonably expect the confidence of others who too apparently distrusts himself. — Samuel Johnson

Labor is the fruit of civilization, not the basis of it. — Alexander Crummell

We should let our godliness exhale like th odor of flowers. We should live for the good of our kind, and strive for the salvation of the world. — Alexander Crummell

It is a sad reflection ... that a sense of responsibility which comes with power is the rarest of things. — Alexander Crummell

Enlightenment is getting off the wheel. Enlightenment is to become pure awareness. — Frederick Lenz

And then, all of a sudden, you're like, all that's great and fun, but Arthur Miller's in my dressing room. This is the third night he's been here and he sits in my dressing room for an hour after each show, and talks to me for an hour. So I'm pretty spoiled right now. — Peter Krause

All real success springs from that inward might which we exert upon society. — Alexander Crummell

If you are to be leaders, teachers, and guides among your people, you must have strength. No people can be fed, no people can be built up on flowers. — Alexander Crummell

Let our posterity know that we their ancestors, uncultured and unlearned, amid all trials and temptations, were men of integrity. — Alexander Crummell

The wise and just man will always feel that he stands on his own feet; that he imparts strength to the state, not receives security from it; and if all went down, he and such as he would quite easily combine in a new and better constitution. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The greatness of peoples springs from their ability to grasp the grand conceptions of being. It is the absorption of a people, of a nation, of a rare, in large majestic and abiding things which lifts them up to the skies. — Alexander Crummell

We read the future by the past. — Alexander Crummell

My pen is an artery, my heart is a fountain — Jay Electronica

I will never be worthy of her. But I spend every day trying my damnedest. — Sylvain Reynard

afflict; - he had become a clod of earth, and his life was vanished like a shadow! — Ann Radcliffe

It is only by closing the ears of the soul, or by listening too intently to the clamors of the sense, that we become oblivious of their utterances. — Alexander Crummell

Those too impressed with material things cannot hold their place n the world of culture; they are relegated to inferiority and ultimate death. — Alexander Crummell

Its the critic's job to interpret the artist, even to the artist himself. — Ayn Rand

Color is nothing, anywhere. Civilized condition differences men, all over the globe. — Alexander Crummell

Strive to make something of yourself, then strive to make the most of yourself. — Alexander Crummell