CARTER, Hodding III
William Hodding Carter III, W. Hodding Carter III
Born: 7 April 1935
Birthplace: New Orleans, Louisiana [raised in Greenville, Mississippi]
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CARTER, Jimmy
CitationContextSource LinkCitation “A simple and a proper function of government is just to make it easy for us to do good and difficult for us to do wrong.” ~Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States “Our Nation’s Past and Future” (15 July 1976) Presidential candidacy acceptance speech, Democratic National Convention, Madison Square Garden, New York, NY; transcript online via The Jimmy Carter Presidential Library & Museum, ‘Acceptance Speech,' www.jimmycarterlibrary.gov Context Extended excerpt [Presidential candidate nomination acceptance speech]: “It is time for our government leaders to respect the law no less than the humblest citizen, so that we can end once and for all a double standard of justice. A
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CARY, Lorene
CitationContextSource ISBNCitation “I had not loved enough. I’d been busy, busy, so busy, preparing for life, while life floated by me, quiet and swift as a regatta.” ~Lorene Cary, American author Black Ice (1991) New York: First Vintage Books, 1992 edition, p. 218 Context Extended excerpt: [Memoir] “I had not loved enough. I’d been busy, busy, so busy, preparing for life, while life floated by me, quiet and swift as a regatta. I had not loved enough. The greedy girl inside me clutched at the little white box with its red ribbons. She was heartbreaking to look upon, a spoiled child at a party grabbing up expensive gifts, no
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CHANDLER, Raymond
CitationContextSource IDCitation “[Chess is] as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.” ~Raymond Chandler, American-British author & screenwriter Describing a game of chess, The Long Goodbye (1953) Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1953 edition, p. 156 Context Extended excerpt [Fiction, Narrator]: “I filled a pipe, paraded the chessmen and inspected them for French shaves and loose buttons, and played a championship tournament game between Gortchakoff and Meninkin, seventy-two moves to a draw, a prize specimen of the irresistible force meeting the immovable object, a battle without armor, a war without blood, and as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find
CitationContextSource LinkCitation “Politicians whose hopes rest upon the popular ignorance and prejudice, and not upon the popular intelligence, furiously sneer at the idea of equality. It is important, therefore, that every man should understand what human equality is. It is an elemental lesson, but the attack is made at the very foundation and must be met there.” ~George William Curtis, American author & orator “The American Doctrine of Liberty,” Address to the Harvard Phi Beta Kappa Society (17 July 1863) Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; in Orations and Addresses of George William Curtis, Vol. I, ed. Charles Eliot Norton, New York: Harper & Bros., 1894, p. 105; online via Stanford University
CitationContextSource LinkCitation “Democracy means self-government; self-government necessitates universal education; and universal education can only be accomplished by free public schools under the control of all the people. Let us have done with these hackneyed arguments against the public school.” ~Charles W. Dabney, American scientist & educator “Inaugural Address of President Dabney”(16 November 1904) University of Cincinnati Music Hall Auditorium, Cincinnati, OH; University of Cincinnati Record, Vol. I, No. 3, December 1904 –January 1905, p. 30; online via New York Public Library & Google Books, books.google.com Context Extended excerpt [Address as the incoming University of Cincinnati president. Dabney held a doctorate in chemistry and had previously served as an agricultural specialist,
CitationMisquotesContextSource ISBNCitation “Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.” ~Don DeLillo, American author White Noise (1985) New York: Penguin Books, 1999 edition, p. 66 Misquotes Misattibution note: At least one quotation book has incorrectly attributed DeLillo’s quote to American author Joan Didion. Although Didion did write about California in works such as “Notes from a Native Daughter,” Repeat Right editors could find no evidence supporting Didion as the original author of the “Californians invented the concept of life-style...” quote. Context Extended excerpt [Fiction – character ‘Alfonse,’ speaking to lunch companions]: “This is where California comes in. Mud slides, brush fires, coastal erosion, earthquakes, mass killings,
CitationContextSource ISBNCitation “A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days.” ~Annie Dillard, American author The Writing Life (1989) New York: Harper Perennial, 2013, p. 32 Context Extended excerpt: [Non-fiction] “A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time. A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order – willed, faked, and so brought into being; it is a peace and a haven set into the wreck of time; it is a lifeboat on which you find yourself, decades later,
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Du BOIS, W.E.B.
W.E.B. DU BOIS – American author, educator, sociologist & civil rights leader – AUTHOR QUOTE PAGE
CARTER, Hodding III
Hodding Carter