Eva Le Gallienne famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I'd rather be a success as a fish than a failure as a fish trying to be a bird.
-- Eva Le Gallienne

#Bird #Trying #Fishes
Innovators are inevitably controversial.
-- Eva Le Gallienne

#Controversial #Innovators
What does so-called success or failure matter if only you have succeeded in doing the thing you set out to do. The DOING is all that really counts.
-- Eva Le Gallienne

#Success #Doe #Matter
People hate what they don't understand and try to destroy it. Only try to keep yourself clear and don't allow that destructive force to spoil something that to you is simple, natural, and beautiful.
-- Eva Le Gallienne

#Beautiful #Hate #Simple
People who are born even-tempered, placid and untroubled - secure from violent passions or temptations to evil - those who have never needed to struggle all night with the Angel to emerge lame but victorious at dawn, never become great saints.
-- Eva Le Gallienne

#Struggle #Angel #Passion
People hate what they don't understand and try to destroy it.
-- Eva Le Gallienne

#Hate #People #Trying
The theater has fallen into the hands of real estate men and syndicates and those who have no love or interest in the stage or its life, but who have considered it principally as a means to make money.
-- Eva Le Gallienne

#Real #Mean #Men
the theater should be free to the people just as the Public Library is free, just as the museum is free. ... I want the theater to be made accessible to the people.
-- Eva Le Gallienne

#Museums #People #Library

It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.
You drew a bird that was here, a kind of sweet chanticleer. But with a terrible fear that the cage couldn't tame
We attain freedom as we let go of whatever does not reflect our magnificence. A bird cannot fly high or far with a stone tied to its back. But release the impediment, and we are free to soar to unprecedented heights.
Archaeopteryx probably cannot tell us much about the early origins of feathers and flight in true protobirds because Archaeopteryx was, in the modern sense, a bird.
Paleontologists have tried to turn Archaeopteryx into an earth-bound, feathered dinosaur. But it's not. It is a bird, a perching bird. And no amount of 'paleobabble' is going to change that.
In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
Fortunately, however, birds don't understand pep talks. Not even St. Francis'. Just imagine, he went on, preaching sermons to perfectly good thrushes and goldfinches and chiff-chaffs! What presumption! Why couldn't he have kept his mouth shut and let the birds preach to him?
The chief danger of the Church today is that it is trying to get on the same side as the world, instead of turning the world upside down. Our Master expects us to accomplish results, even if they bring opposition and conflict. Anything is better than compromise, apathy, and paralysis.Â God give to us an intense cry for the old-time power of the Gospel and the Holy Ghost!
I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.
Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.

Eva Le Gallienne famous quotes

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