Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets. Edna Ferber More Quotes by Edna Ferber More Quotes From Edna Ferber A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects. Edna Ferber tree beautiful men A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle. Edna Ferber women struggle memorable No woman ought to pretend she's intelligent. And if she is she ought to have the intelligence to pretend she isn't. Edna Ferber ought intelligent ifs Emma McChesney was engaged in that nerve-wracking process known as getting things out of the way. When Emma McChesney aimed to get things out of the way she did not use a shovel; she used a road-drag. Edna Ferber nerves use way A writer's working hours are his waking hours. He is working as long as he is conscious and frequently when he isn't. Edna Ferber waking hours long If it's freedom you want, come to Texas. No one there tells you what to do and how you have to do it. Edna Ferber texas ifs want One can summon courage and fortitude to face tragedy; irritations and frustrations are a cloud of mosquitoes that nip and sting and drive one frantic. Edna Ferber irritation frustration clouds Take Texas the way Texas takes bourbon. Straight. It goes down easier. Edna Ferber easier texas way It sounds so far away and different. I like different places. I like any places that isn't here. Edna Ferber different sound travel There are people who have a penchant for cities-more than that, a talent for them, a gift of sensing them, of feeling their rhythm and pulsebeats, as others have a highly developed music sense, or color reaction. It is a thing that cannot be acquired. Edna Ferber color cities people The writer is a writer because he cannot help it. It is a compulsion. Edna Ferber compulsion helping The ideal view for daily writing, hour for hour, is the blank brick wall of a cold-storage warehouse. Failing this, a stretch of sky will do, cloudless if possible. Edna Ferber wall views writing Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight. Edna Ferber women sight memorable There is an interesting resemblance in the speeches of dictators, no matter what country they may hail from or what language they may speak. Edna Ferber may country interesting The goat's business is none of the sheep's concern. Edna Ferber goats busybodies sheep Men often marry their mothers. Edna Ferber mother men Roast Beef, Medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy. ... Roast Beef, Medium, is safe, and sane, and sure. Edna Ferber beef food philosophy But I have felt that to be a Jew was, in some ways at least, to be especially privileged. Edna Ferber jew felt way Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling. Edna Ferber christmas feelings love I'm tired of hearing you men say that this and that and the other isn't woman's work. Any work is woman's work that a woman can do well. Edna Ferber hearing tired men
