Dar Williams Quotes

How I long to fall just a little bit, to dance out of the lines and stray from the light.

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• Feeling has as much to say as the words do. You can have the greatest words in the world and if they're not believable, they don't strike a chord and they're not said convincingly, it's not a great song.

  

  Sam Phillips
  • World
  • Great
  • Song

• I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.

  

  Jack Falahee
  • Television
  • Own
  • Watch

• I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.

  

  Ursula Andress
  • Life
  • Food
  • Cats

• When I decided that I might want to do acting for a living - I don't know where it really came from, since there was no school play or any of that - my mom gave me her blessing. I had to get a scholarship - that was the only way I could have gone to drama school.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • School
  • Mom
  • Drama

• You might think the thinner version of yourself is going to be the most positive or confident, but that's not how it is for me. When I'm over 200 pounds, that's when I'm the most confident version of myself.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Myself
  • Positive
  • Yourself

• I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Help
  • Feeling
  • Best

• A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Man
  • More
  • Dinner

• Now all my teachers are dead except silence.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Silence
  • Now
  • Teachers

• With 'Mad Men,' people who grew up or were living in that time, they love to talk about what it was really like.

  

  Cara Buono
  • People
  • Time
  • Like

• It's taken me time to find my feet in L.A.

  

  Caitlin Stasey
  • Time
  • Me
  • Taken

• The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• I was writing a lot even as a kid.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Writing
  • Kid
  • Even

• If we had this back, and in full measure; if society were infused by it, through and through, and men lived its life, and in its life, philosophy would take care of itself and the nature of our institutions would not matter.

  

  Ralph Adams Cram
  • Life
  • Men
  • Nature

• We are not a country that subscribes to policing any part of the world. The areas we are comfortable with are capacity building, intelligence sharing, exchange of ships, call on each other's ports, joint training and exercises.

  

  Salman Khurshid
  • World
  • Country
  • Training

• The substance of what it means to be a geek is essentially someone who's brave enough to love something against judgment. The heart of being a geek is a little bit of rejection.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Heart
  • Brave
  • Judgment

• The No. 1 cause of forest fires is trees.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Forest
  • Trees
  • Fires

• Every year I go to the Google Zeitgeist conference, which is invite-only, and I'm one of about 20 women and five fashion people out of the 400 there.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • People
  • Women
  • Fashion

• I came from Canada, where it's freezing cold for seven months out of the year.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • Cold
  • Year
  • Canada

• Being on 'Whitney' is a job, but stand-up is my life. I could never stop. There's an art to it. I love having strangers laugh with me, so as long as I can continue doing that, I'll be happy. Working on a show and collectively sharing ideas with a cast is great, but stand-up is my first love.

  

  Chris D'Elia
  • Life
  • Up
  • Great

• There are at least two retrospectives of my work each year in some country.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Work
  • Country
  • Year

• It's fine when you careen off disasters and terrifyingly bad reviews and rejection and all that stuff when you're young; your resilience is just terrific.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Bad
  • Rejection
  • Resilience

• Most of our children have access to Internet-accessible technology, yet most of us are actually not paying much attention to what they're doing online.

  

  Lisa Madigan
  • Children
  • Attention
  • Technology

• Challenge is the pathway to engagement and progress in our lives. But not all challenges are created equal. Some challenges make us feel alive, engaged, connected, and fulfilled. Others simply overwhelm us. Knowing the difference as you set bigger and bolder challenges for yourself is critical to your sanity, success, and satisfaction.

  

  Brendon Burchard
  • Success
  • Challenge
  • Progress

• How I long to fall just a little bit, to dance out of the lines and stray from the light.

  

  Dar Williams
  • Long
  • Light
  • Fall