David A. R. White Quotes

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David A. R. White

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• Every man must wear out at least one pair of fools shoes.

  

  Earl Derr Biggers
  • Man
  • Shoes
  • Fools

• Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Me
  • Wonder
  • Matter

• The same way one tells a recipe, one tells a family history. Each one of us has our past locked inside.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Family
  • History
  • Past

• I'm never in my life going to do a record that's a tribute to myself. I don't need it.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Life
  • Myself
  • My Life

• The ego being shattered is not what frightens me - that can be useful for writing - but the ego being inflated is sort of like it dying of gout.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Writing
  • Dying
  • Ego

• I wish the press were paying more attention to the erosion of the Constitution and the slippery slope that we're getting into, by giving up the right of the Congress to talk about when and how and where we go to war.

  

  Barbara Lee
  • Up
  • War
  • Giving

• When I go to Indian reservations in the West, and especially to the Pine Ridge Reservation, I sometimes feel unsure where to put my foot when I open the car door. The very ground is different from where I usually stand. There are fewer curbs, fewer sidewalks, and almost no street signs, mailboxes, or leashed dogs.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Different
  • Car
  • Door

• I'm stubborn; I know what I want. I'll dedicate all my efforts to achieving it.

  

  Carlo Rubbia
  • Want
  • Stubborn
  • Achieving

• Irrelevance is the feeling that an employee gets when they don't see how their job really makes a difference in someone else's life in some large or small way.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Life
  • Job
  • Feeling

• It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Life
  • True
  • Damn

• Bangalore now wants a person who doesn't only play politics. Bangalore needs a problem solver, and I am a problem solver. I will be the bridge between Bangalore and the Centre.

  

  Nandan Nilekani
  • Problem
  • Politics
  • Bridge

• I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Live
  • Day
  • Find

• I'm thought of as a celebrity. Everything I've ever done... has been for children. As long as I was working constantly, that was fine, because, although I don't have any children, I do relate better to them than adults.

  

  Jack Wild
  • Long
  • Children
  • Done

• Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Truth
  • Soul
  • Whatever

• There are great legends and great fighters in the history of Mexico, and there will be more to come.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Great
  • History
  • Legends

• For political and bureaucratic reasons, governments at all levels are telling far less to the public than to insiders about how to prepare for and behave in the initial chaos of a mass-casualty event.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Political
  • Chaos
  • Prepare

• Many things we need can wait. The child cannot. Now is the time his bones are formed, his mind developed. To him we cannot say tomorrow, his name is today.

  

  Gabriela Mistral
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Today

• Music can be such a vulnerable thing, so when you're delivering a vocal or writing a piece of music, it's easy to get sideways.

  

  Karen Fairchild Little Big Town
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Easy

• When People magazine called me, I did the job on Ansel. I'm older than Ansel and he has to mind me.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • People
  • Mind
  • Job

• The soul, when accustomed to superfluous things, acquires a strong habit of desiring things which are neither necessary for the preservation of the individual nor for that of the species. This desire is without limit, whilst those which are necessary are few in number and restricted within certain limits; but what is superfluous is without end...

  

  Maimonides
  • Soul
  • Strong
  • Desire

• If you look at Christmas movies, there are certain things in them that lend themselves to a 'Harold & Kumar' movie. In particular, the more out-of-this-world things like Santa Claus and flying reindeer.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • World
  • Movie
  • Christmas

• I love to feel a racing car around me, to feel the way it holds me. I love to make it do all that it was built to do, and then a little bit more.

  

  Stirling Moss
  • Feel
  • Built
  • Racing

• When I act as a translator, I am really doing a performance for my fellow Anglophone readers in the West.

  

  Ken Liu

• When you buy a ticket, you're basically voting for whatever you see.

  

  David A. R. White