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 am a conservative type of person, so sometimes when I'm chilling with myself, people always come ask me, 'What's wrong with you? What are you wondering about?'

  

  Wayne Wonder
  • Conservative
  • Type
  • Wondering

• 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

• I don't think there was a particular book that made me want to write. They all did. I always wanted to write.

  

  Elizabeth Strout
  • Book

• Tel Aviv is new, built on the sand dunes north of Jaffa in the 1890s, about the same time Miami was founded. The cities bear a resemblance in size, site, climate, and architecture, which ranges from the bland to the fancifully bland.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Time
  • New
  • Architecture

• Hamish and I rarely go to launches or parties any more but prefer to spend our time hanging out together.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Time
  • Together
  • More

• Writing can be a very solitary profession, and when deadlines are looming, it's tempting to glue myself to my desk, but I try to make sure I get out a few times a month with friends just so I don't forget what it means to be social.

  

  Becca Fitzpatrick
  • Writing
  • Friends
  • Myself

• An actor's life is all about rejection. It's you they don't want; it's you who's too tall or too short or too fat. With stand-up, it doesn't matter what you look like.

  

  Mark Billingham
  • Life
  • Up
  • Rejection

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

  

  David Stras