Employed Quote by Edith Sitwell Download Open image “A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.” — Edith Sitwell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Employed Great man Great men People Rabbits Reading Reading and writing Sarcastic Would be Writing
Rabbits are very wise, very stealthy, and highly nutritious, which brings me back to very wise. — Grass Hopper Copy Share Image
“My earliest recollection is of coming upon some rabbit tracks in the backyard snow. I must have been three or so, but I had… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
“Okay, so English settlers brought rabbits with them to Australia to breed for food and stuff, right? But they escaped and basically started destroying… — Elle Lothlorien Copy Share Image
We don't usually write up accidents involving rabbits. - Joe Morelli — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
“Those rabbits stopped fighting the system, because it was easier to take the loss of freedom, to forget what it was like before the… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
There's nothing else I would rather do, unless there was a profession that involved cuddling bunny rabbits and kittens all day for money. — Kat Dennings Copy Share Image
“Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit” — Kate Karyus Quinn Copy Share Image
The reason why Matthew Arnold, to my feeling, fails entirely as a poet (though no doubt his ideas were good - at least, I… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
The great sins and fires break out of me like the terrible leaves from the bough in the violent spring. I am a walking… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
“Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
“Said the lion to the lioness - "when you are amber dust - No more a raging fire like the heat of the sun… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
“The fusty showman fumbles, must Fit in a particle of dust The universe, for fear it gain Its freedom from my cube of brain.… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation they do not… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
What is the special privilege of youth? It is, I think, the power of looking forward, the firm belief that the future holds something… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
Rhythm is one of the principal translators between dream and reality. Rhythm might be described as, to the world of sound, what light is… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
[The Community's] crosses and trials give me confidence. But I derive my hope above all, and most especially, from our utter incapacity, for it… — Theodore Guerin Copy Share Image
Over the past 50 years Bob Hope employed 88 joke writers who supplied him with more than one million gags, and he still couldn't… — Eddie Murphy Copy Share Image
Virtue is as little to be acquired by learning as genius; nay, the idea is barren, and is only to be employed as an… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
With a full century of contrary proof in our possession and despite our demonstrated capacity for cooperative teamwork, some among us seem to accept… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Of Rhetoric various definitions have been given by different writers; who, however, seem not so much to have disagreed in their conceptions of the… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work. — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
“For their never-ending endeavours to obtain or retain wealth, countries desperately need companies, because they—unlike most human beings—have the means of production, and human… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
All forces are a deterrent to and would be employed in a general war. Most of our forces could be employed in a limited… — Thomas S. Gates Jr Copy Share Image
The law increasing and organizing the military establishment of the United States has been nearly carried into effect, and the Army has been extensively… — Martin Van Buren Copy Share Image
Though liberty is established by law, we must be vigilant, for liberty to enslave us is always present under that very liberty. Our Constitution… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I think we should all hope for a Russia that is successful, where its people are employed and the economy is growing and they… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image