Elizabeth Foreman Lewis famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • When you can turn people on their head and shake them and no money falls out, then you know God's saying, "Move on, son."

  • The rain is plentious but, by God's decree, Only a third is meant for you and me; Two-thirds are taken by the growing things Or vanish Heavenward on vapour's wings: Nor does it mathematically fall With social equity on one and all. The population's habit is to grow In every region where the water's low: Nature is blamed for failings that are Man's, And well-run rivers have to change their plans.

  • Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word 'census,' and people fall asleep.

  • If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.

  • I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.

  • Beginning with the first bite, and for every bite after, that try to chew ten times.

  • Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.

  • A nation is not in danger of financial disaster merely because it owes itself money.

  • Quite clearly this is a human disaster of enormous proportions. We have tens and tens of thousands of displaced people across the United States,.

  • What is a highway to one is a disaster to the other.