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

• 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

• 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

• Colin Kaepernick is one of the leaders in the movement for black lives. His role as an athlete and activist is not only motivating but inspiring.

  

  Patrisse Cullors
  • Black
  • Athlete

• Before you can win a game, you have to not lose it.

  

  Chuck Noll
  • Game

• I love sleep so much. That's the one thing I won't sacrifice. I really cannot.

  

  Bozoma Saint John
  • Sleep
  • Sacrifice

• Once you make the majors, it's never a great feeling to go back to the minors - no matter what the circumstances.

  

  Jon Lester
  • Great
  • Feeling

• Natural hazards, however formidable, are inherently less dangerous and less uncertain than fighting hazards. All conditions are more calculable, all obstacles more surmountable than those of human resistance.

  

  B. H. Liddell Hart
  • Fighting
  • Military
  • Obstacles

• I stand proud, but I never said my pledge allegiance.

  

  Capital Steez
  • Proud
  • Allegiance
  • Pledge

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

  

  David Stras