Karl Rove Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration.
-
I don't really measure success by anything other than if I am happy. That is success to me. Am I happy waking up every morning? And despite the challenges of running my own business, do I look forward to going to work? Absolutely.
-
A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.
-
It's no easy task to either make money online as a publisher or to advertise your product in a world where attention is so fleeting and divided.
-
I can't write if someone else is in the house, not even the cleaning woman.
-
I played softball for a few years growing up. Both my brothers played baseball.
-
You can't, no matter what anyone says, build a movie around someone.
-
Americans are very easygoing people. If the added attention and great visibility that I have been able to generate can help open doors and expose more Chinese to American values and the American way of life, that is great.
-
I'm not interested in celebrity.
-
I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
-
This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.
-
I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.
-
The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
-
Voting for Romney after the train wreck of that was the eight years of W. Bush is like losing your pay check playing a rigged game of three-card monte and then playing the same game again a week later 'cause the cards are a different color.
-
I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
-
I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.
-
In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.
-
Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.
-
My father once told me that I have a mind like a lint trap - I pull stuff out of everything, and a lot of it just clings.
-
To every bushel of the powdered cement add one bushel of sand, mix them together and pass them through a sieve, then add a sufficient quantity of water to make it (by well mixing and working) about the consistency of a soft putty. It is then fit to use but should not be kept more than six or eight hours and should be thoroughly worked just before it is used.
-
'There are men in Spain who need me, who trust me. They're not special men, they wouldn't look very well in Carlton House, but they are fighting for all of you. That's why I'm here.'
-
I rarely ever put my head above the rampart and see where this big lumbering behemoth called 'global literature' is going.
-
Men accept without questioning that this world is real and important and worthwhile. This is faith. Philosophy is the ongoing questioning of this faith.
-
Just get me a fucking faith-based thing. Got it?
