"Being a novelty had its advantages."

Being, Novelty

25

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

Exlpore more Being quotes

"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."

Erich Fromm, American Psychologist

Being, World

"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."

Victor Hugo, French Author

Being, Right

"The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions."

Jean Rostand, French Scientist

Being, Nobility

"You cannot be a hero without being a coward."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

Being,

"The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages."

Karl Schlegel, German Philosopher

Being, Sense, Words

"Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us."

Jane Austen, British Writer

Being, May, Opinion, Pride

"Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

Being, Nothing

"It feels kinda weird being back in a high school cause I haven't been in a high school for about a year. So um, it's kinda interesting coming back, and y'know seeing the lockers, with all the signs, the handmade signs, so being in high school again is a little bit strange but in a good way."

Taylor Swift, American Musician

Being, Cause, School

"Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap."

Jacques Barzun, American Educator

Being, Intellect, Opinion, Privilege

"Our writers are full of cliches just as old barns are full of bats. There is obviously no rule about this, except that anything that you suspect of being a cliche undoubtedly is one and had better be removed."

Wolcott Gibbs, American Writer

Being, Cliches, Old, Writers

Explore more quotes by Jessica Savitch

"When I first anchored in 1970, I had never seen a woman anchor a news show."

Media

"Many senators have developed a canny sense of what will play best for the audience."

Politics

"Although I was entirely relaxed on camera, if I had to stand up and say something to an assembled group of people, I was rendered all but inarticulate."

People

"Television is intensely personal."

Television

"It is my belief that one's salary is between an individual and the IRS."

Trust

"Women may not have it easy, but we are given a fairer chance to reach for the top."

Woman

"In interviews I gave early on in my career, I was quoted as saying it was possible to have it all: a dynamic job, marriage, and children. In some respects, I was a social adolescent."

Marriage

"Shootouts are not gunfights of honor, they're gang wars and racial riots."

Honor

"I hadn't realized until I covered the police beat just how seedy crime is."

Crime

"Never refuse an assignment except when there is a conflict of interest, a potential of danger to you or your family, or you hold a strongly biased attitude about the subject under focus."

Attitude