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It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.

Quote by Louisa May Alcott about genius, talent, man, time, people

It takes two flints to make a fire.

Quote by Louisa May Alcott about fire, fire brigade

Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.

Quote by Louisa May Alcott about ridicule, victory, name, truth, rightness

Love is a great beautifier.

Quote by Louisa May Alcott about love

Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.

Quote by Louisa May Alcott about money

Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us-and those around us - more effectively. Look for the learning.

Quote by Louisa May Alcott about events

People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.

Quote by Louisa May Alcott about style, money, man, work, world, people

She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.

Quote by Louisa May Alcott about influence, clothes, magic, instinct, character

“Stay” is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Quote by Louisa May Alcott about word

Talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a commonplace dauber, so I don't intend to try any more.

Quote by Louisa May Alcott about genius, talent, nothing

What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?

Quote by Louisa May Alcott about problems, haven, help

Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.

Quote by Louisa May Alcott about time

I love the idea they would rather have had another Louis there than Mitterand.

Quote by Sean Connery about idea, love

I started going to Madame Louise's, the lesbian club where all the punk bands used to go - the Sex Pistols, the Clash. I remember seeing Billy Idol walk in there; he was gorgeous.

Quote by Boy George about sex

Even in something like Thelma and Louise, where you have these two very strong characters, they have to die in the end.

Quote by Linda Fiorentino about death, end, contentment

Some summers my father would take us down to visit our grandmother in Louisville, who was an ex-slave, Susan Jones, and she had a shotgun shack they call it, and no electricity, a well in the back, a coal stove, kerosene lamps.

Quote by Quincy Jones

The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician, things like old folks singing in the moonlight in the back yard on a hot night or something said long ago.

Quote by Louis Armstrong about music, garden, memory, things, night, old, olderness

All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.

Quote by Louis Armstrong about music

Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization.

Quote by Henri Bergson about sex, civilization

Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.

Quote by Henri Bergson about laughter