Nancy Gibbs Quotes
The one problem with the Internet for journalists who like doing long form is that any story that's going to involve 16 screens on the web page... that's asking a lot of people.
Quotes to Explore
-
I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
-
I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
-
We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minutes.
-
Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.
-
Drama school introduced me to a world I had no idea about. I wasn't brought up in a literary household at all.
-
Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
-
We're overpaying him, but he's worth it.
-
Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
-
You don't want to take the world over with a whole hamper full of dirty clothes. That's the main thing people overlook. And take a shower, take a bath every day.
-
I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.
-
I know what it is like to fear violence. I understand the adrenalin rush that comes before violent confrontations. I write my scripts from an emotional point of view and direct so the audience can experience this adrenalin rush.
-
Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
-
My biggest fear has always been being 40 and hating my job. I love challenges. I'm not afraid to try anything.
-
I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.
-
When I throw a ground ball, I expect it to be an out, maybe two.
-
I do everything in a straightforward manner.
-
I need to have something else going on. I'm able to write a lot if I have an episode of 'Friday Night Lights' going on my computer.
-
It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.
-
I believe innovation is the most powerful force for change in the world.
-
People don't slip. Time catches up with them.
-
I felt that on a basis of a "search for the miraculous" it would be possible to unite together a very large number of people who were no longer able to swallow the customary forms of lying and living in lying.
-
Tales of great heroism were being told... at my parents home in Wirt County, West Virginia, it was understaged by media all repeating the story of the 'little girl Rambo' from rural West Virginia who went down fighting. It was not true.
-
There’s something insupportable about being pissed with the one person on this planet that sends your adrenaline flowing to remind you that you’re alive. It’s almost like we’re mad because we’ve been shocked out of our usual comatose state of being by feeling something for someone, for ourselves, for just a moment.
-
The one problem with the Internet for journalists who like doing long form is that any story that's going to involve 16 screens on the web page... that's asking a lot of people.
