David Stras Quotes

As anyone familiar with my scholarship knows, I am not a huge fan of inherent powers in most contexts.

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• In general, I don't know when inspiration will pop up.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Inspiration

• My dad got me hooked on the news. That was a good thing.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Good
  • Me
  • Dad

• If I was a girl again, I would like to be like my fans, I would like to be like Madonna.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Girl
  • Like
  • Fans

• I don't connect much with the present. I have more of an affinity for what came in the past.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Past
  • Present
  • Connect

• I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Age
  • Artist
  • Young

• Joseph Warren, like a lot of revolutionary leaders, was into Enlightenment literature.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Literature
  • Enlightenment

• The intellectual bourgeois of the old Empire - tepid and unimaginative, mentally slow, arrogant, and incorrectly trained - has proven his incapacity to be the bearer of German culture. His benumbed world is now toppled, its spirit is overthrown, and is in the midst of being recast into a new mold.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • World
  • Culture
  • German

• For many years, I supported the concept of separate states.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • Years
  • States
  • Many

• I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.

  

  A. C. Benson
  • Teacher
  • Emotions
  • Tastes

• I would fly to Los Angeles just for a cheeseburger with pickles and extra tomatoes from In-N-Out.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Fly
  • Just
  • Los Angeles

• There will be times when we do not agree on every decision or subject, but we should always believe in one another, support one another, and move forward through life together - connected.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Together

• I don't believe in regrets. There are a few things I'd do differently, but I can't go back in time and redo them, however much I might wish to. All I can do is learn from past mistakes and move forward.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Past

• Ever since the first day I arrived in this town, the general impression has been that I'm like a queen holding court on chosen days.

  

  Irene Dunne

• The nurse is the nightTo wake to, to die in: and the day I live,The world and its life are her dreams.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Life
  • World
  • Live

• Alas! A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections - a mere heart of stone.

  

  Charles Darwin
  • Heart
  • Wishes

• Spite, spite, is the word of your undoing!

  

  Arthur Miller

• Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world, - though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst, - the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!

  

  Laurence Sterne
  • World
  • May
  • Criticism

• Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained.

  

  Maurice de Vlaminck
  • Good
  • Painting
  • Cooking

• In seventh grade, with some vague sense that I wanted to be a writer, I crouched in the junior high school library stacks to see where my novels would eventually be filed. It was right after someone named Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. So I grabbed a Vonnegut book, 'Breakfast of Champions' and immediately fell in love.

  

  Jess Walter
  • School
  • Book
  • High

• I have been so deeply, profoundly lucky to have friends in my life that have always just loved me exactly as I am no matter what time period I'm in.

  

  Emma Stone
  • Life
  • Friends

• Psychologists, for reasons of clinical necessity or vagaries of temperament, have chosen to dissect and catalog the morbid emotions - depression, anger, anxiety - and to leave largely unexamined the more vital, positive ones.

  

  Kay Redfield Jamison
  • Positive
  • Depression
  • Anxiety

• If you work hard in real life, people tend to get in your way - either from inertia or prejudice - and they stop you achieving things. It's the worst thing about real life compared with sports, where you generally get what you deserve: if you're the fastest guy, you win; there are no other games being played.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• To fake it is to stand guard over emptiness.

  

  Arthur Herzog
  • Fake

• As anyone familiar with my scholarship knows, I am not a huge fan of inherent powers in most contexts.

  

  David Stras