Edna Ferber - People Quotes

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Don't you hate people who say they're not complaining and then complain?

Edna Ferber
Living in the past is a dull and lonely business; and looking back, if persisted in, strains the neck-muscles, causes you to bump into people not going your way.

Edna Ferber
There are only two kinds of people in the world that really count. One kind's wheat and the other kind's emeralds.

Edna Ferber
When the two married, Milly's people went through that ablutionary process known as washing their hands of her.

Edna Ferber
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 pulse beats, as others have a highly developed music sense, or color reaction. It is a thing that cannot be acquired.

Edna Ferber
It is a curious fact that people permit life to slide past them like a deft pickpocket, their purse — not yet missed and now too late — in his hand.

Edna Ferber
I sometimes wonder... if the land is not destroying the people who inhabit it as the people who inhabit it are destroying the land. A magic continent, a Peculiar Treasure, stuffed with riches, millions in it are starving in the midst of plenty.

Edna Ferber
Nicknames are fond names. We do not give them to people we dislike.

Edna Ferber
People in big empty places are likely to behave very much as the gods did on Olympus.

Edna Ferber
About mistakes it's funny. You've got to make your own; and not only that, if you try to keep people from making theirs, they get mad.

Edna Ferber