Paul Scott Mowrer famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

There is nothing like walking to get the feel of a country. A fine landscape is like a piece of music; it must be taken at the right tempo. Even a bicycle goes too fast
-- Paul Scott Mowrer

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I think in this country we're committed to developing plays, and many plays I've seen have been rewritten too much. The scenes are tight, the play ends at the right time, you know exactly what the scene is about, but it seems flat; you can almost see that too many hands have been on the play. The individual voice is gone.
To Lawren Harris art was almost a mission. He believed that a country which ignored the arts left no record of itself worth preserving.
Thats a wonderful change thats taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself, working with his friends.
Do not be fooled by your youthful appearance for very soon it would be taken away from you.
As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men are created equal, except negroes.' When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty â€“ to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.
Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out by mistake.
When there's a status quo, usually what shakes everybody up is some sort of military confrontation, at which point we all come running and screaming to pick up the pieces.
The electronic spectrum is the only natural resource in which there's no such thing as private property rights. You can't own a piece of the spectrum.
Cars for me are like a piece of art.
I hear about stars being torn to pieces by fans. It never happened to me and I never saw it happen to anyone else

Paul Scott Mowrer famous quotes

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