Confusing Quote by Edna Ferber Download Open image “here in Texas maybe we've got into the habit of confusing bigness with greatness.” — Edna Ferber ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Confusing Greatness Habit Habits Texas
The thing about Texas is that it's a little larger than life. — Lauren Shuler Donner Copy Share Image
The spirit of Texas seems to pervade our everyday existence. Our desire is to be superlative, not only the largest, but also the best… — Denton Cooley Copy Share Image
For all its enormous range of space, climate, and physical appearance, and for all the internal squabbles, contentions, and strivings, what you northerners never… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
I thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of its size until I campaigned it. — Ann Richards Copy Share Image
Greatness is not so much a certain size as a certain quality in your life. — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
We've been taught in America that big is best. That's why people have to believe that they must live in the greatest country in… — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
There is a growing feeling that perhaps Texas is really another country, a place where the skies, the disasters, the diamonds, the politicians, the… — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
Texas has arguably the most extreme separation between the well off and everyday people in the United States. — Don Baylor Copy Share Image
People in big empty places are likely to behave very much as the gods did on Olympus. — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
Housework's the hardest work in the world. That's why men won't do it. — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
It was part of theTexas ritual? We know about champagne and caviar but we talk hog and hominy. — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
It's terrible to realize that you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die; and, then it's too late. — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
I sometimes wonder ... if the land is not destroying the people who inhabit it as the people who inhabit it are destroying the… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
All the difference in the world between the movies and the thrill I get out of a play at the theater. Ay, yes! Like… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
It's difficult to write a really good short story because it must be a complete and finished reflection of life with only a few… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
Now gae your wa'sTho'anes as gude As ever happit flesh and blude, Yet part we maunthe case sae hard is, Amang the writers and… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
But I have felt that to be a Jew was, in some ways at least, to be especially privileged. — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
I think in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion, dislike, displeasure, resentment, fault-finding, imagination, passionate remonstrance,… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
“Then there were long, lazy summer afternoons when there was nothing to do but read. And dream. And watch the town go by to… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
Because I'm in a modern studio, there are so many possibilities - you can do so much. So it's sometimes a little bit confusing… — Trentemøller Copy Share Image
A new constitution should be more amendable. A needlessly confusing system of courts should be altered to produce an arrangement that would be simple,… — Charles Edison Copy Share Image
I think in the past I think I probably was a little too diverse, probably went from one spectrum to the complete opposite and… — Marc Almond Copy Share Image
When you're playing a fictional character reacting to the real world, it's incredibly difficult and confusing and kind of messes with your values a… — Ed Helms Copy Share Image
The chaos surrounding her was confusing. Everyone was suddenly talking at the same time. Perhaps she should try to swoon after all, Christine considered.… — Julie Garwood Copy Share Image
You have very accurately described the difficulty of presenting my books on film: many of my characters are alone most of the time, and… — Thomas Perry Copy Share Image
It's unrated, which means it's too confusing to possibly put a rating on. — John Cena Copy Share Image
Our people have made the mistake of confusing the methods with the objectives. As long as we agree on objectives, we should never fall… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
It's very confusing when fame comes early on in your career. You get a little bit bent out of shape in terms of what's… — Adam Clayton Copy Share Image
Life is confusing. We're all just trying to get on with it, that's all. — Art Carney Copy Share Image
But fear is confusing. It tears you in two. Half of you wants to run far, far away, but the other half is paralyzed,… — Melody Carlson Copy Share Image
“I seem to be torn between 'I wish we'd met earlier' and 'I wish we'd never met'.” — Ahmed Mostafa Copy Share Image
