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

• 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

• 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

• No, I'm not going to explain it. If you can't figure it out, you didn't want to know anyway...

  

  Larry Wall

• In the entertainment industry, careers don't last very long - and online, careers last an even shorter amount of time.

  

  Burnie Burns
  • Time
  • Long

• When you fight fires for a few seasons, you know what to expect. Your heart doesn't race as much as it did.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Heart

• The scar on my eye is a result of the doctor's sewing up my face. It was 450 stitches and plastic surgery.

  

  Charlie Puth
  • Up

• We are in possession of what I think to be compelling evidence that Saddam Hussein has, and has had for a number of years, a developing capacity for the production and storage of weapons of mass destruction.

  

  Bob Graham

• We've got to stop them now. Once they get a foothold, Palm Coast is no longer going to be a haven for people to move into.

  

  Jack Carroll
  • People
  • Move
  • Palm Coast

• There are politicians who seethe with ambition all the time, and there are a lot of other politicians who don't. I'm in the second category, that's all.

  

  Neil Kinnock
  • Time
  • Ambition

• Trophy hunters are not Everyman. These world-traveling endangered-species shooters are a far cry from the hunters who spend weekends in the American outback near their suburban or rural homes.

  

  Lydia Millet
  • World
  • American

• Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully - love, lust, longing; joy, rage, fear; triumph, yearning and confusion.

  

  Tony Snow
  • Music
  • Politics
  • Experiences

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

  

  David A. R. White