David Macaulay Quotes

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David Macaulay

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• I'm doing my best to mindfully raise my son to feel safe and encouraged to express himself.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Best
  • Son
  • Doing

• I like being friends with other women who are supportive of women. I think that is important.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Important
  • Women
  • Friends

• Success is so fleeting; even if you get a good book deal, or your book is a huge success, there's always the fear: 'What about the next one?'

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Good
  • Book
  • Success

• The question of modernization is central to disturbances in the Middle East and in Africa. Everyone is after modernization, no matter where they come from. But you have to be careful about it, and more importantly, you have to have sense about it.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Question
  • Matter
  • Everyone

• Most producers I've known were writers first, and writing is a vital part of any game show. You could easily argue that the writing is the key ingredient that makes 'Jeopardy!' so great.

  

  Randy West
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Game

• Should I be the happy mortal destined to turn the scale of war, will you not rejoice, O my father?

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • War
  • Happy
  • Father

• There's very few geniuses that come and revolutionize everything. For the rest of us that want to be artists and have something to say, it's a lot of work and a lot of luck.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Work
  • Want
  • Rest

• My parents were Beatle fans, but my mom was especially a Lennon fan, so I was exposed to him more. I remember her playing 'Double Fantasy' quite often.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Remember
  • Parents
  • Mom

• I don't think I'll still be riding at 40. There are a couple of people who are still riding after having kids, like Mary King, but people say that you lose your nerve after you have kids. It's the risk.

  

  Zara Phillips
  • People
  • Kids
  • Couple

• Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Attention
  • Value
  • Poetry

• Most American writers don't get asked their opinion on current affairs, whereas in Europe and England, we still do. There are writers here who are the most sophisticated commentators, but they're not asked. Like Don DeLillo, who sort of forecast most of the modern world before it happened.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • American
  • Opinion

• My husband may have been in the military, but no one tells me which leader to follow.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • May
  • Me
  • Military

• I think traveling made me who I am. When I was 16, I was an exchange student in England, and that was the year that I kind of feel like I was on the road going one direction in life, and it just kind of shifted me over, and I finished high school, and I went traveling for three more years instead of going to college.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Life
  • School
  • High

• I did not capture power. I was made to assume power.

  

  Ziaur Rahman
  • Power

• She too had lost her luck, and known death, and gone on.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • She
  • Death
  • Lost

• And I know, and you know too That a love, like ours Is terrible news But that wont stop me crying No, that wont stop me crying over you

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Stop
  • Crying

• In schools throughout the world God's but described to you. Within the spirit's school one sees and loves him too.

  

  Angelus Silesius
  • World
  • God
  • School

• I think there are a lot of things that soccer does in the communities that transcend the soccer field.

  

  Brandi Chastain
  • Soccer

• The measure of a country's greatness should be based on how well it cares for its most vulnerable populations.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Greatness
  • Measure
  • Populations

• Frank's audience doesn't care if a girl singer, a comic or an organ grinder with a monkey opens the show. They are there to see HIM.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • Girl
  • Care
  • Monkey

• I'm just trying to experiment with a lot of different stuff and see what comes out of it.

  

  Kygo
  • Different
  • Trying

• A lot of Hollywood couples get married young and wind up growing out of their relationship.

  

  Patti Stanger
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Relationship

• I'm just looking for projects I enjoy.

  

  David Macaulay