I have made hundreds of dives in submersibles, with each dive holding the promise of seeing an organism or a behavior that no one has ever seen before. But I have always wondered about the animals and behaviors that we're not seeing because our bright lights and loud thrusters scare them away.
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Related The primary way that we know about what lives in the ocean is we go out and drag nets behind ships. ... EDITH WIDDER The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes, in ... MARCEL PROUST It's always the thrill of the unknown. Everybody dives in the Grand Cayman or Bermuda. I don't dive ... CLIVE CUSSLER I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. CRAIG GROESCHEL I don't ever remember seeing that many cops in a courtroom. When I came in and saw all the security,... DENNIS BURKE I came from the country, and when I came to the city, I was ridin' high, you know. I was seeing ... JOHN HUNTER Seeing your baby in pain and seeing them crying and that sort of thing, and you're tired, and yo... DANIEL BRYAN I have friends that I have made through Twitter or things like that, but they're all verified as... KATIE FEATHERSTON I have a lot of influences. I like to sit down with the cinematographer a month before, and we'l... BEN AFFLECK I don't believe we're seeing the beginning of a divergence. We have seen a partial divergenc... MARIO MONTI But why must the system go to such lengths to block our empathy? Why all the psychological acrobatic... MELANIE JOY We are seeing lot of new lighting innovations; some of them are allowed and some not. My understandi... RAE TYSON If you ever really want to get away from it all and see something that you have never seen, and have... MIKE DEGRUY I'm equally guilty of using technology - I Twitter, I text people, I chat. But I think there'... JASON REITMAN I believe when I am in the mood that all nature is full of people whom we cannot see, and that some ... W.B. YEATS I have no interest in going to Egypt and seeing the pyramids. I'm just not that kind of dude. GARY VAYNERCHUK It has 27 mirrors. But no one is really capable of seeing or saying how many mirrors there are in th... KATINKA DE MONTAL If you go back to your home town or you're reunited with school friends, its always slightly bit... EDGAR WRIGHT But we always avoided talking about these things—difficult things—and I wondered if that meant w... CATHERINE LACEY No, and in fact I get a bit frustrated, because I'm actually quite good at one-liners, and I'... VINCE CABLE We are seeing the most intense bargaining among big states that we have seen since the end of the Co... GRAHAM ALLISON Convinced that we're living the whole time that we're dying. We decide to go out walking the wh... TEGAN QUIN I don't know if I have a favorite color. KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl. KATE MIDDLETON One of the reasons people and animals share such a close relationship is that people have always lea... ARI BERK & CAROLYN DUNN What's so kind of beautiful about the whole thing was that everything that made me not right for... AMERICA FERRERA A lot of the time I will go in a room and see that three or four animals right next door to each oth... JOSEPH GARNER Their rebukes have never made me angry, because I have always wondered why they did not rebuke me mo... MINNIE MADDERN FISKE There is an Anglo-Saxon form of riddling that plays with the polarities of words like bright and dar... GERALD HAUSMAN I think what we're seeing is a much tighter holding on spending than we would have expected, ... It'... PATRICIA RUSSO I have no recollection of ever seeing Ms. Barrett's book -- though it would be foolish of me not to ... HARRIET ZIEFERT I have no recollection of ever seeing Ms. Barrett's book - though it would be foolish of me not to c... HARRIET ZIEFERT I have no recollection of ever seeing Ms. Barrett's book — though it would be foolish of me not to... HARRIET ZIEFERT I have no recollection of ever seeing Ms. Barrett's book though it would be foolish of me not to con... HARRIET ZIEFERT I have no recollection of ever seeing Ms. Barrett's book - though it would be foolish of me not to ... HARRIET ZIEFERT I have no recollection of ever seeing Ms. Barrett's book - though it would be foolish of me not to ... HARRIET ZIEFERT I have no recollection of ever seeing Ms. Barrett's book though it would be foolish of me not to ... HARRIET ZIEFERT I expected us to be pretty good. Our kids have really bought in to what we are doing and that has ma... JEFF MENNILLO Seeing some of those things (on the poster) made us laugh, and some of them made us remember how muc... LAUREN BECHTOLD I'm a voyeur. I say that with no embarrassment. If I could have a superpower, being invisible wo... THOMAS SCHLAMME So I don't really have much rivalry, or if there is any, I don't really know anything about ... EMILY BLUNT When we see animals doing remarkable things, how do we know if we're simply seeing tricks or sig... NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON It's nice seeing everybody again - not that I am implying that I have a close personal relationship ... ALEX VAN HALEN When I think of invention, I always think of America. You're always seeing ads: 'Have you go... SIMON COWELL In many... cases, of course, the Arab Spring has brought about instability rather than greater stabi... DAVID PETRAEUS There's not one film that I've ever made that could get made today by a studio, not one - ev... ROB REINER I need them, no question. There are hundreds of people who need to be seen. I'm not talking about pe... JOE DAWSEY I wouldn't say one is easier or more difficult, but when you're inside a costume and a mask,... WARWICK DAVIS If you catch yourself wondering why you want more of the world and you're not satisfied with God, it... CRAIG GROESCHEL I always wondered if I was supposed to be excellent at something or not. I think, because of that, I... CHRISTOPHER ATKINS Every now and then, someone will tell me that one of my books has made them laugh out loud. I never ... MARY ROACH I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes. CRAIG GROESCHEL You don't think in depression that you've put on a gray veil and are seeing the world throug... ANDREW SOLOMON I couldn't tell if any frames were removed. Seen as a whole it shows that I have seen. Seeing yo... ABRAHAM ZAPRUDER We've seen the hubris. And now we're seeing the scandals. DAVID GERGEN A lot of children remember seeing cartoons, 'Pinocchio' or 'Bambi' or something that... SAM TAYLOR-WOOD Many Teams Think About "The Bright Lights Of Success" Yet The Greatest Teams, Understand Their A-Gam... GEORGE M. ETHERIDGE Animals are more than ever a test of our character, of mankind's capacity for empathy and for decent... MATTHEW SCULLY I made a series of wrong decisions about moderately recent books, and I've sold the rights to st... JOHN LE CARRE Maybe it's because One Direction was just on 'SNL,' or because I'm playing The Wante... CARSON DALY I think that our biggest accomplishment is that we have truly helped families and not just broken or... CLEMA LEWIS I think in most cases, when you're writing a song, you're just making up a little story, and... ADAM SCHLESINGER But I think the - what the tea party movement demonstrates, and I think the, the, the enthusiasm tha... JOHN CORNYN God has not cared that we should anywhere have assurance of His very words; and that not merely, per... GEORGE MACDONALD We're seeing the usual breaks and bruises. But we're also seeing cigarette burns and chemical burns ... SARAH ROBINSON Young people, our rights and the things we care about, have been taken away because it doesn't r... ELIZA DOOLITTLE It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained. QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and... QUEEN ELIZABETH II My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have to be seen to be believed. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast. QUEEN ELIZABETH II The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t... QUEEN ELIZABETH II To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th... QUEEN ELIZABETH II What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e... QUEEN ELIZABETH II To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Grief is the price we pay for love. QUEEN ELIZABETH II The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl... QUEEN ELIZABETH II At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr... QUEEN ELIZABETH II For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first. QUEEN ELIZABETH II The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g... QUEEN ELIZABETH II We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as... QUEEN ELIZABETH II These wretched babies don't come until they are ready. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has t... QUEEN ELIZABETH II In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters... QUEEN ELIZABETH II No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and o... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I do hear from people at my exhibition about seeing these things made from this toy from their child... NATHAN SAWAYA
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I loved anything to do with animals from a very early age. EDITH WIDDER Squid don't eat jellyfish, but they eat the things that eat the jellyfish. Jellyfishes put on a ... EDITH WIDDER One of the things that's frustrated me as a deep-sea explorer is how many animals there probably... EDITH WIDDER We need a NASA-like organization for ocean exploration, because we need to be exploring and protecti... EDITH WIDDER We've only explored about five percent of our ocean. There are great discoveries yet to be made ... EDITH WIDDER In 2010, there was a TED event called Mission Blue held aboard the Lindblad Explorer in the Galapago... EDITH WIDDER It's a little-appreciated fact that most of the animals in our ocean make light. I've spent ... EDITH WIDDER I never, ever would have imagined the kind of career I've had. It just wouldn't have occurre... EDITH WIDDER The giant squid has the biggest eyes of any animal on the planet. It's a visual predator. 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EDITH WIDDER During my first open ocean dive, I went down to 800 feet and turned out the lights. I knew I would s... EDITH WIDDER Since my first dive in a deep-diving submersible, when I went down and turned out the lights and saw... EDITH WIDDER Exploring is an innate part of being human. We're all explorers when we're born. Unfortunate... EDITH WIDDER Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth. EDITH WIDDER Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth. So let's al... EDITH WIDDER I just was mesmerized by all of this life everywhere I looked. And so I wanted to be a marine biolog... EDITH WIDDER In 2008, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded for work done on a molecule called green fluoresce... EDITH WIDDER I developed an optical lure that imitates certain types of bioluminescent displays that I think migh... EDITH WIDDER Squid experts have been debating for some time about whether the giant squid is a passive predator t... EDITH WIDDER I developed my camera system, called the Medusa, jointly with a colleague down in Australia as a met... EDITH WIDDER The primary way that we know about what lives in the ocean is we go out and drag nets behind ships. ... EDITH WIDDER If I go out in the open ocean environment, virtually anywhere in the world, and I drag a net from 3,... EDITH WIDDER The time of declining working hours in the public sector in Germany is over. The train is going in t... GERHARD WIDDER The result is that the people in our cities will have to continue to endure the strike. GERHARD WIDDER True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision. EDITH WHARTON As far as I'm concerned, love means fighting, big fat lies, and a couple of slaps across the fac... EDITH PIAF What the people wanted was a government which would provide a comfortable life for them, and with th... EDITH HAMILTON He was, first and last, the born fighter, to whom the consciousness of being matched against a great... EDITH HAMILTON There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow. EDITH WHARTON I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time... EDITH WHARTON He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime. EDITH WHARTON The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else. EDITH WHARTON In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears. EDITH WHARTON To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it? EDITH WHARTON When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it ... EDITH WHARTON I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it in... EDITH WHARTON There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rise... EDITH WHARTON Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to br... EDITH WHARTON Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope. EDITH WHARTON The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background. EDITH WHARTON Silence may be as variously shaded as speech. EDITH WHARTON If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time. EDITH WHARTON The state has got to be its own master. The modalities of civic life may not be prescribed for it th... EDITH STEIN All our own present experiences are primordial. What could be more primordial than experience itself... EDITH STEIN A community having the breadth and scope of a people still cannot claim to be an ethnic community un... EDITH STEIN During my early years, I was mercurially lively, always in motion, spilling over with pranks, impert... EDITH STEIN The community that stands behind a culture as a comprehensively productive personality must be so ex... EDITH STEIN Both spiritual companionship and spiritual motherliness are not limited to the physical wife and mot... EDITH STEIN Whoever resorts regularly to the lessons of Holy Scripture as an apt pupil will take the Savior into... EDITH STEIN As the possessor of complete knowledge, God is not mistaken about people's experiences as people... EDITH STEIN Diverse forms of memory can have a variety of gaps. Thus it is possible for me to represent a past s... EDITH STEIN The emotions have been seen as the center of woman's soul. For that reason, emotional formation ... EDITH STEIN One could say that in case of need, every normal and healthy woman is able to hold a position. And t... EDITH STEIN Because human development is the most specific and exalted mission of woman, studies in anthropology... EDITH STEIN Those who join the Carmelite Order are not lost to their near and dear ones, but have been won for t... EDITH STEIN On the question of relating to our fellowman - our neighbor's spiritual need transcends every co... EDITH STEIN Since Mary is the prototype of pure womanhood, the imitation of Mary must be the goal of girls' ... EDITH STEIN Every true prayer is a prayer of the Church; by means of that prayer the Church prays, since it is t... EDITH STEIN The entire educational process must be carried out with love, which is perceptible in every discipli... EDITH STEIN The nation... doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are. EDITH STEIN In order to be an image of God, the spirit must turn to what is eternal, hold it in spirit, keep it ... EDITH STEIN The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elev... EDITH STEIN If anyone comes to me, I want to lead them to Him. EDITH STEIN My longing for truth was a single prayer. EDITH STEIN This is a serious warning cry: Surrender without reservation to the Lord who has called us. This is ... EDITH STEIN Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever... EDITH SITWELL The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous... EDITH SITWELL The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten. EDITH SITWELL I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am... EDITH SITWELL I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art. EDITH SITWELL I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent. EDITH SITWELL Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred a... EDITH SITWELL A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits. EDITH SITWELL People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looki... EDITH SCHAEFFER The farm women are extremely well organized and are bound to be heard from. EDITH ROGERS I cannot doubt that women will line up, like the men elected, with the groups whose political thinki... EDITH ROGERS But do not understand me as saying, or for one moment suggesting, that women legislators should conf... EDITH ROGERS The market town of Cheltenham, in Gloucestershire, was a popular 19th - century English spa. Its min... EDITH PEARLMAN I wanted to publish a book simply to be buried with it; that's all I wanted. I had no ambition b... EDITH PEARLMAN I know a lot of single people who are not miserable as society tells them they're supposed to be... EDITH PEARLMAN I always loved to read, and I wanted to be part of the project of literature. My physical longevity ... EDITH PEARLMAN There's no rule I want to break or ever wanted to break - I find the conventional life gratifyin... EDITH PEARLMAN I lived around the corner from Saul Bellow. EDITH PEARLMAN Tony Judt's remarkable 'The Memory Chalet' was written from the prison of mute immobilit... EDITH PEARLMAN In the late 1950s, self-esteem hadn't yet been invented. High schools saw their sole mission as ... EDITH PEARLMAN The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and pr... EDITH PEARLMAN I was quite satisfied with my creative life. I've always had reinforcement from a small but devo... EDITH PEARLMAN I think the computer is a hindrance to good writing because it is so tempting to leave what you'... EDITH PEARLMAN I have a skepticism toward romance. I believe that decency and companionship are, in the long run, m... EDITH PEARLMAN The ordinary experiences of aging alter and clarify your view of past, present, and future. EDITH PEARLMAN I wrote in the cellar for a number of years. I needed a private space, and it had a furnace, so it w... EDITH PEARLMAN I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for the animals - like Lassie. EDITH HEAD I always wear beige, black or white. For one thing I look good in them. For another, when I'm be... EDITH HEAD I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for Lassie. EDITH HEAD With women, there's a basic female instinct of caring deeply about the way they look; women star... EDITH HEAD Every different director has another language - for instance, Hitchcock does not like any bright col... EDITH HEAD Even the most beautiful legs - Marlene Dietrich's, for instance - look better when the kneecap i... EDITH HEAD As women, we all have certain weaknesses. I know one who can't resist pretty shoes but has nothi... EDITH HEAD We don't make glamorous movies today. Everything now is very realistic, artistic - and depressin... EDITH HEAD If you hunger for certain types of clothes, for which you have little use, put yourself on a diet. J... EDITH HEAD You can lead a horse to water and you can even make it drink, but you can't make actresses wear ... EDITH HEAD A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes. EDITH HEAD Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your ... EDITH HEAD There's no such thing as a standard size movie star, or woman for that matter. EDITH HEAD Before you are interviewed for the job you want, try on the complete outfit you intend to wear. EDITH HEAD Some people need sequins, others don't. EDITH HEAD I've dressed thousands of actors, actresses and animals, but whenever I am asked which star is m... EDITH HEAD My motto is that the audience should notice the actors, not the clothes. EDITH HEAD Building a proper wardrobe is like building a home. Indeed, you should think of it like a home, beca... EDITH HEAD You can have anything you want in life if you dress for it. EDITH HEAD What a costume designer does is a cross between magic and camouflage. We create the illusion of chan... EDITH HEAD The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who wil... EDITH HAMILTON To be able to be caught up into the world of thought - that is being educated. EDITH HAMILTON Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without a... EDITH HAMILTON A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day ... EDITH HAMILTON The fullness of life is in the hazards of life. EDITH HAMILTON When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos. EDITH HAMILTON What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give. EDITH EVANS A successful artist of any kind has to work so hard that she is justified in refusing to lay down he... EDITH EVANS I can't imagine going on when there are no more expectations. EDITH EVANS I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You ... EDITH EVANS I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. EDITH CAVELL There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and belo... EDITH WHARTON Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths. EDITH SUMMERSKILL I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the ame... EDITH WHARTON Set wide the window. Let me drink the day. EDITH WHARTON I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel ... EDITH SITWELL Almost everybody in the neighborhood had troubles, frankly localized and specified; but only the cho... EDITH WHARTON Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a... EDITH SITWELL The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend! EDITH WHARTON The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said, ... EDITH HAMILTON How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be American before (or in contradistinction to... EDITH WHARTON An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French ope... EDITH WHARTON A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show... EDITH HAMILTON It makes sense that there is no sense without God. EDITH SCHAEFFER A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue. EDITH WHARTON When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it does... EDITH WHARTON Mrs. Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though it were dangerous to meet... EDITH WHARTON When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free... EDITH HAMILTON There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate a... EDITH HAMILTON None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltatio... EDITH HAMILTON I am thankful to have had these ten weeks of quiet to get ready. Now I have had them and have been k... EDITH CAVELL I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, and abundance. Then, whenever ... EDITH ARMSTRONG There are two ways to spread happiness; either be the light who shines it or be the mirror who refle... EDITH WHARTON My first few weeks in America are always miserable, because the tastes I am cursed with are all of a... EDITH WHARTON Civilization...is a matter of imponderables, of delight in the thins of the mind, of love of beauty,... EDITH HAMILTON Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed. EDITH HAMILTON It is a curious thing that people only ask if you are enjoying
yourself when you aren't. EDITH NESBIT Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active. EDITH HAMILTON The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it. EDITH WHARTON I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and c... EDITH WHARTON After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics ove... EDITH WHARTON My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. EDITH SITWELL The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth. EDITH SITWELL Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heret... EDITH WHARTON Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing wh... EDITH WHARTON How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be ''American'' before (or in contradistinctio... EDITH WHARTON Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with t... EDITH WHARTON In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual... EDITH WHARTON I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance. EDITH SITWELL I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself. EDITH SITWELL Poetry is the deification of reality. EDITH SITWELL My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life. EDITH SITWELL Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that whi... EDITH HAMILTON Couture has copied my things for years, in addition to countless other costume designers, claiming t... EDITH HEAD Peoplehood tends to develop into nationhood if the people achieves a certain maturity. This is analo... EDITH STEIN Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a... EDITH HEAD I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the auth... EDITH WHARTON I think you have to pay for love with bitter tears. EDITH PIAF My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet. EDITH WHARTON The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing. EDITH WHARTON Fashion is a language. Some know it, some learn it, some never will - like an instinct. EDITH HEAD Growing old gracefully used to begin at about 35, but today women prefer to 'stay young grateful... EDITH HEAD There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. EDITH WHARTON Singing is a way of escaping. It's another world. I'm no longer on earth. EDITH PIAF ...though she had not had the strength to shake off the spell that bound her to him she had lost all... EDITH WHARTON Her whole being dilated in an atmosphere of luxury. It was the background she required, the only cli... EDITH WHARTON When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man? EDITH EVANS The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have ... EDITH SITWELL Many women have asked me if it is possible to have a well-built wardrobe on a limited budget. 'M... EDITH HEAD Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in 'Post and Beam,'... EDITH PEARLMAN After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the cri... EDITH WHARTON Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins. EDITH WHARTON When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility,
then Athens ceased to be free... EDITH HAMILTON To be able to be caught up into the world of thought that is being educated. EDITH HAMILTON Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths? EDITH WHARTON As for what concerns our relations with our fellow men, the anguish in our neighbor's soul must ... EDITH STEIN All the stories I write come from someone I've met or some anecdote I've heard. EDITH PEARLMAN An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French ope... EDITH WHARTON All I've done all my life is disobey. EDITH PIAF There are two ways of spreading light: To be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. EDITH WHARTON It spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual... EDITH WHARTON A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes. EDITH HEAD