Joseph Wood Krutch quote: "Any euphemism ceases to be euphemistic after a time and the true meaning begins to show through. It's a losing game, but we keep on trying."

When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of...
JOSEPH WOOD KRUTCH

It is sometimes easier to head an institute for the study of child guidance than it is to turn one b...
JOSEPH WOOD KRUTCH

The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.
JOSEPH WOOD KRUTCH

Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can b...
JOSEPH WOOD KRUTCH

What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.
JOSEPH WOOD KRUTCH

Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.
JOSEPH WOOD KRUTCH

Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had.
JOSEPH WOOD KRUTCH

Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had, and there is no conceivable human ac...
JOSEPH WOOD KRUTCH

Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is...
JOSEPH WOOD KRUTCH

Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I hav...
JOSEPH WOOD KRUTCH

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.
JOSEPH WOOD KRUTCH

Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
JOSEPH WOOD KRUTCH

What man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.
JOSEPH WOOD KRUTCH

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what they want.
JOSEPH WOOD KRUTCH

If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy so...
JOSEPH WOOD KRUTCH

As machines get to be more and more like men, men will come to be more like machines.
JOSEPH WOOD KRUTCH

Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence
JOSEPH WOOD KRUTCH

It is . . . sometimes easier to head an institute for the study of child guidance than it is to tu...
JOSEPH WOOD KRUTCH

Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would m...
JOSEPH WOOD KRUTCH

Perhaps we are wiser, less foolish and more far-seeing than we were two hundred years ago. But we ar...
JOSEPH WOOD KRUTCH

Both the cockroach and the bird could get along very well without us, although the cockroach would m...
JOSEPH WOOD KRUTCH

The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.
JOSEPH WOOD KRUTCH

Every time a value is born, existence takes on a new meaning; every time one dies, some part of that...
JOSEPH WOOD KRUTCH

If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either...
JOSEPH WOOD KRUTCH

Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.
JOSEPH WOOD KRUTCH

The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February
JOSEPH WOOD KRUTCH

A book unlike a television program, moving picture or any other "modern means of communication" can ...
JOSEPH WOOD KRUTCH

It is . . . sometimes easier to head an institute for the study of child guidance than it is to turn...
JOSEPH WOOD KRUTCH

Any euphemism ceases to be euphemistic after a time and the true meaning begins to show through. It'...
JOSEPH WOOD KRUTCH

Those whose conscience demands that they defy authority in some ways that involve great consequences...
JOSEPH WOOD KRUTCH

As machines get to be more and more like men, men will come to be more like machines
JOSEPH WOOD KRUTCH

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
JOSEPH WOOD KRUTCH

There is no such thing as a dangerous woman; there are only susceptible men.
JOSEPH WOOD KRUTCH

The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole ...
JOSEPH WOOD KRUTCH

Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable
JOSEPH WOOD KRUTCH

Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many ailments, but I never heard o...
JOSEPH WOOD KRUTCH

The advertiser is the overrewarded court jester and court pander at the democratic court.
JOSEPH WOOD KRUTCH

When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of t...
JOSEPH WOOD KRUTCH

Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can...
JOSEPH WOOD KRUTCH

A humanist is anyone who rejects the attempt to describe or account for man wholly on the basis of p...
JOSEPH R. KRUTCH

People who are making us do additional work are liable for the cost. Rather than burdening the entir...
JOSEPH WOOD

It's without a doubt the worst visual spot in town. We don't always get complaints from those areas....
JOSEPH WOOD

In the late '90s, lots of other people had entered the business and it got crowded. As the new team ...
JOSEPH WOOD

We want to look at how they're operating, if they should be operating at those locations or developi...
JOSEPH WOOD

I welcome anyone who is interested in running. Let the people choose, and may the best person win,
JOSEPH WOOD

He also doesn't always act in a proper manner at City Council meetings, ... I think the mayor's offi...
JOSEPH WOOD

I thought it had gotten better, but in the last few weeks there have been more incidents,
JOSEPH WOOD

I had intended to serve one more term as mayor pro-tem, then retire from public service and move out...
JOSEPH WOOD

Overall, there has been a groundswell of improvements in the nine years I've been here. We've seen p...
JOSEPH WOOD

We will speak to the community about what they want in improvements, such as in transportation, traf...
JOSEPH WOOD

We've carried that over into the visual development as well. We've designed quite an exotic ...
SAM WOOD

Todd and I have a very complementary working style .
SAM WOOD

We went into this with the utmost respect for the source material, but we recognized the need for ch...
SAM WOOD

While they're building a solid foundation that will support whatever is coming down the road, To...
SAM WOOD

Life's not fair, is it? Some of us drink champagne in the fast lane, and some of us eat our sand...
VICTORIA WOOD

Stardom is only a by-product of acting. I don't think being a movie star is a good enough reason...
NATALIE WOOD

The last show we played, I was straight as a die. It did feel weird not to be hiding behind alcohol ...
RON WOOD

No, I never ever considered myself attractive.
LANA WOOD

I think I was only divorced once, and the rest were annulments. Or, maybe not. I can't keep trac...
LANA WOOD

I still have never met Harry Saltzman, and was told he is quite unpleasant.
LANA WOOD

When I get married it will be for keeps.
NATALIE WOOD

A lot changed when I had Natasha. I'm a survivor.
NATALIE WOOD

I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish an...
NATALIE WOOD

I'm just going to have to grow old, because I'm too terrified to have anything done.
NATALIE WOOD

Sometimes when I visit my sister and her two children, I wonder if she missed a lot by getting marri...
NATALIE WOOD

I couldn't even go to the bathroom alone. My mother or a social worker always went with me.
NATALIE WOOD

There are certain stars who are not actors. I don't want to be that type.
NATALIE WOOD

Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human ...
NATALIE WOOD

For the first time I feel an inner emotional security. There is reality and dependability. My life r...
NATALIE WOOD

I'm not very bright about money. I'm not domestic either. If I don't learn how to cook, ...
NATALIE WOOD

I was so young, and making movies, going to the studio every morning at dawn was magic.
NATALIE WOOD

I didn't know who the hell I was. I was whoever they wanted me to be.
NATALIE WOOD

The constant attention is what is so difficult.
NATALIE WOOD

If I didn't believe in what I'm doing, I'd rather go to work in a dime store.
NATALIE WOOD

My mother used to tell me, No matter what they ask you, always say yes. You can learn later.
NATALIE WOOD

I've been terrified of the water, and yet it seems I'm forced to go into in on every movie t...
NATALIE WOOD

I never saw film stars at home. We had no maid, no cook, no swimming pool.
NATALIE WOOD

I never knew motherhood could be so truly gratifying until I had Natasha.
NATALIE WOOD

My friends seem much more excited about my doing Anastasia than Brainstorm... and to tell you the tr...
NATALIE WOOD

Almost every girl falls in love with the wrong man, I suppose it's part of growing up.
NATALIE WOOD

Not even analysis, by itself, can transform you. You must still do the changing yourself.
NATALIE WOOD

The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby.
NATALIE WOOD

I was so overprotected, I used to think I was as delicate as people said I was.
NATALIE WOOD

We were descended from royalty.
NATALIE WOOD

By not burning their poppy fields to the ground but instead maintaining a security umbrella that int...
JAKE WOOD

In the absence of love, there is nothing worth fighting for.
ELIJAH WOOD

You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.
BEATRICE WOOD

You know, God, the power that makes life, whatever it is, had just to make two things, masculine and...
BEATRICE WOOD

You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrate...
BEATRICE WOOD

Yes, because when you're in love, you are shy.
BEATRICE WOOD

Well, I don't go out much socially. I don't enjoy going out.
BEATRICE WOOD

The second time I was there I met Marcel Duchamp, and we immediately fell for each other. Which does...
BEATRICE WOOD

I'm not too interested in books about India.
BEATRICE WOOD

But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.
BEATRICE WOOD

But you can't realize, you can't know what another person goes through.
BEATRICE WOOD

And then a great thing in my life was going to India.
BEATRICE WOOD

And I think maybe all women, if they just had a chance, would be romantic and believe in love and no...
BEATRICE WOOD

A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
BEATRICE WOOD

There's so much more to life than that, though I think that acting is fascinating because you ca...
BEATRICE WOOD

Sex is energy.
BEATRICE WOOD

I was in a convent for a year.
BEATRICE WOOD

I happen to believe that there is an afterlife.
BEATRICE WOOD

And several galleries - two had asked me and I said no, because I didn't want to leave things on...
BEATRICE WOOD

First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me w...
BEATRICE WOOD

Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
BEATRICE WOOD

But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very domin...
BEATRICE WOOD

Over and over I'm on the point of giving it up.
BEATRICE WOOD

Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts.
BEATRICE WOOD

And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.
BEATRICE WOOD

I don't like to sell my finest pieces.
BEATRICE WOOD

And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.
BEATRICE WOOD

My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road.
BEATRICE WOOD

We are going to finish this picture just the way I want it... because you cannot compromise an artis...
ED WOOD

Well, I started thinking about what you were saying about how your movies need to make a profit. Now...
ED WOOD

Yes, but if you take that crap and put a star in it, then you've got something.
ED WOOD

He's too short, he's too... tall, he's... just not going to work.
ED WOOD

This story's gonna grab people. It's about this guy, he's crazy about this girl, but he ...
ED WOOD

Really? Worst film you ever saw. Well, my next one will be better. Hello. Hello.
ED WOOD

It's not a monster movie. It's a supernatural thriller.
ED WOOD

We shot ten minutes of the movie, and now we're looking for completion funds.
ED WOOD

Why if I had half a chance, I could make an entire movie using this stock footage. The story opens o...
ED WOOD

One is always considered mad, when one discovers something that others cannot grasp.
ED WOOD

What do you know? Haven't you heard of suspension of disbelief?
ED WOOD

I go off into Dublin and two days later I'm spotted walking by the Liffey with a whole bunch of ...
RON WOOD

We had a very normal, sort of ghetto, urban upbringing. My father was a bus driver and my mother was...
WOOD HARRIS

We've created an impression that life is risk-free, and it's not.
ALASTAIR WOOD

We try to teach them how to make a presentation so that it's valuable to people, so they deliver a m...
ALASTAIR WOOD

I thought my Beatles LPs sounded pretty good on a record player, but that was before I had heard a C...
ALASTAIR WOOD

I think we need to think beyond the issue of absolute risk.
ALASTAIR WOOD

I see my job as being to facilitate the life of clinical researchers so that they can be more produc...
ALASTAIR WOOD

Even then, Vanderbilt was the premiere place for clinical pharmacology.
ALASTAIR WOOD

A generation of arrogance. We didn't trust anyone over 30. We believed we could fix all the prejudic...
ALASTAIR WOOD

and that risk is not trivial.
ALASTAIR WOOD

There's no evidence they are a good value,
ALASTAIR WOOD

It seems improbable to me that ... politics hasn't trumped science here, which is a tragedy,
ALASTAIR WOOD

I think that he did a very professional job in a very, very precarious time. I don't know if we have...
ALAN WOOD

We won't be seeing anything we haven't seen already this year. The experience we have and the schedu...
ALAN WOOD

Short term, this is going to be bad. Long term, this may be good.
ALAN WOOD

The suggestions are not meant to gut any program but to stimulate discussion. I also feel that most ...
ALAN WOOD

We're going to have to whittle it down. I think we can cut harmlessly at first, and then we'll have ...
ALAN WOOD

An awful lot of people are very upset with us, and we've got to do whatever we can to reduce taxes a...
ALAN WOOD

We didn't have enough money so we bought what we could and the Trust for Public Land is raising the ...
ALAN WOOD

There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know ...
RON WOOD

I think people are 'just creative,' and this can be expressed in a number of ways. Bob Dylan...
RONNIE WOOD

I'm not a star!!! A star is nothing but a ball of gas!!!
ELIJAH WOOD

I like writing a lot more than I used to. I used to find it scary but now I've got used to it on...
VICTORIA WOOD

One might say that the true subject of the horror genre is the struggle for recognition of all that ...
ROBIN WOOD

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.
ELIJAH WOOD

I will have the children read Hamlet as soon as it is practical. There are some useful cautions agai...
MARYROSE WOOD

College is the best time of your life. When else are your parents going to spend several thousand do...
DAVID WOOD

We are truly indefatigable in providing for the needs of the body, but we starve the soul.
ELLEN WOOD

Stupid is forever, ignorance can be fixed.
DON WOOD

Neither James Madison, for whom this lecture is named, nor any of the other Framers of the Constitut...
DIANE WOOD

I play Captain Lance Van Der Berg, who's a Union captain who ends up staying with the Confederat...
CHRIS WOOD

I did a lot of musicals growing up.
CHRIS WOOD

I never feel like I'm looking to get away from my own self. Not as much as I'm trying to get...
CHRIS WOOD

I think that I'm lucky in that, even at levels where I, by and large, wasn't making enough m...
CHRIS WOOD

It wasn't until 2013 that I even started working in film. It was always something I wanted to do...
CHRIS WOOD

When they sold me on 'Supergirl', I went and sat down with Andrew Kreisberg and Greg Berlant...
CHRIS WOOD

I miss the simplicity of college, with specific due dates, a consistent schedule, and a solid routin...
CHRIS WOOD

I left 'Containment' for the first time understanding the exhaustion some people have after ...
CHRIS WOOD

If I get back into theater, I think I'd want to do a play. I enjoy singing, but it beats me up a...
CHRIS WOOD

I prefer to make my own coffee at home because I love the experience of measuring out the beans and ...
CHRIS WOOD

I only hope that people understand that if I've just come from the gym or am fresh off a red-eye...
CHRIS WOOD

I was one of those weirdos who, at six years old, was telling everybody that I wanted to be an actor...
CHRIS WOOD

I studied religions and all kinds of other things in college. I took a Shakespearean villain course ...
CHRIS WOOD

I guess each of my roles on the network have been so different. It's great to be entrusted with ...
CHRIS WOOD

I drink regular pour-over coffee, black. It's all about the beans. I'm always stocked at hom...
CHRIS WOOD

I lost my father four years ago to what was the culmination of a manic episode that seemingly, to my...
CHRIS WOOD

Hopefully, everyone has the same feeling I do when they perform. I get such a thrill from getting to...
CHRIS WOOD

I play rec softball sort of religiously. I'm a huge baseball fan. When I lived in New York City,...
CHRIS WOOD

Every character thinks differently, and every character has a different energy and way that they tic...
CHRIS WOOD

I've sort of always been obsessed with telling stories and making things up.
CHRIS WOOD

The sexiest thing my girlfriend has ever done for me is when she planned three full days of events, ...
CHRIS WOOD

Sometimes you hate villains, but you love that you hate them, and it finds this happy medium where y...
CHRIS WOOD

Six years is a long time to play the same characters on the same show.
CHRIS WOOD

If I wasn't making a movie, I was trying to master a new musical instrument or trying to teach m...
CHRIS WOOD

I've just always sort of been mesmerized by our minds and how people think and how people react ...
CHRIS WOOD

I definitely don't look my age. So I actively look for roles that will help people change their ...
ELIJAH WOOD

At night, when the sky is full of stars and the sea is still you get the wonderful sensation that yo...
NATALIE WOOD

But you can't realize, you can't know what another person goes through.
BEATRICE WOOD

And several galleries - two had asked me and I said no, because I didn't want to leave things on con...
BEATRICE WOOD

And my first museum show was at Santa Barbara, then the de Young. And, I think it was after the de Y...
BEATRICE WOOD

My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road.
BEATRICE WOOD

In the face of aggressive competition from Motorola, Samsung, LG and Siemens this is going ot be a c...
BEN WOOD

You're definitely looking at single digit margins, but Motorola will use the ultra low tier to attra...
BEN WOOD

The Rokr was kind of a disappointment. You hear a song, go home, find it on iTunes, connect your pho...
BEN WOOD

If you look at the hype-ometer, music is definitely the hottest. But no one has quite got the right ...
BEN WOOD

Vodafone has got serious about 3G now. It is using its size and purchasing power to put together the...
BEN WOOD

For a guy like me that's just extraordinary. This is like - I don't want to say it - but it's at arc...
BEN WOOD

I have a sense that there's hysteria from the operators.
BEN WOOD

The model caters to the replacement market where fashion is as much a factor in purchasing decision ...
BEN WOOD

Sony Ericsson's W800 Walkman phone and the K750 are seeing healthy demand in distribution and retail...
BEN WOOD

The other network operators are starting to get their story together so they can take the fight back...
BEN WOOD

We do things on an exchange basis in the music business - it keeps the wheels turning. That's ho...
RONNIE WOOD

Last year we were kind of in awe of playing down there. This time we're going down there to win a ga...
BENJIE WOOD

North Hall battled and played well. They're so young. They remind me a lot of us two years ago.
BENJIE WOOD

That was a lot of senior leadership out there for us, because we shot the ball poorly tonight.
BENJIE WOOD

It was a business-like approach from the girls. We've been here before and we knew what we had to do...
BENJIE WOOD

Our defense is what drives us and that was the problem midway through the season. We've shored up ou...
BENJIE WOOD

Any euphemism ceases to be euphemistic after a time and the true meaning begins to show through. It's a losing game, but we keep on trying.

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Any euphemism ceases to be euphemistic after a time and the true meaning begins to show through. It's a losing game, but we keep on trying.

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