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
  • Achieving
  • Stubborn

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith

• I don’t care for success. The ideas sitting in my head are annoyed by, and envious of, that which I’ve already written.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Success
  • Annoyed

• If large financial institutions can break the law and accumulate million in profits - and, if they get caught, settle by paying out of those profits - they do not have much incentive to follow the law.

  

  Elizabeth Warren
  • Law
  • Financial

• When the opportunity to choreograph came up, it was nothing more in my head but an opportunity. Then it suddenly became a career very quickly.

  

  Adam Shankman
  • Up
  • Career
  • Opportunity

• And who is so barbarous as not to understand that the foot of a man is nobler than his shoe, and his skin nobler than that of the sheep with which he is clothed.

  

  Michelangelo
  • Understand
  • Sheep
  • Barbarous

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

  

  David A. R. White