Jake Barton Quotes

Museums, I think, are becoming more and more aware of how to turn themselves into a must-see spectacle.

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• I'm a very good thinker, but I sometimes grab the wrong word. I say something I didn't think through adequately. I mean, I don't type my speeches, then sit up there and read them off the teleprompter, you know. I wing it.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Up
  • Good
  • Know

• We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • Problem
  • Environment
  • Military

• Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Life
  • Time
  • Dance

• No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Men
  • Me
  • Woman

• I feel lucky every day. But I can also trace that luck back to decisions I have made. Frequently, those decisions have been to pay my own way to somewhere I want to be and something I want to do.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Day
  • Luck
  • Decisions

• In some ways, Trump's large, national coalition defies easy characterization. He draws from a broad base of good people: kind folks who open their homes and hearts to people of all colors and creeds, married couples with happy homes and families who live nearby, public servants who put their lives on the line to fight fires in their communities.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • People
  • Good
  • Live

• I do hope to be an adult actor. But if it doesn't work out, I've been thinking about doing something in the medical therapy field, chiropractics or something like that. I've always been into the idea of helping people medically, but I can't stand blood or surgery. That freaks me out. So this would be a bloodless way to help people.

  

  Nathan Kress
  • People
  • Work
  • Thinking

• Everybody takes at least 20, so even if you see a good selfie, it probably wasn't the first one. So my tip is to just not take it too seriously and have fun.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Have Fun

• I hope that I have had some effect on the fact that Israel is a start-up nation.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Up
  • Hope
  • Nation

• The art of DJing is sharing music with one another... The technology's definitely taking it into a new direction to where it's really becoming performance-based.

  

  Kaskade
  • Music
  • Art
  • Technology

• Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark.

  

  O. Henry
  • Up
  • Home
  • Funny

• The best gift I've ever gotten... My grandpa gave me a Polaroid camera when I was younger. It was awesome!

  

  Camren Bicondova
  • Best
  • Awesome
  • Gift

• What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • Men
  • Live
  • Try

• I do wish my breasts were bigger. Not big... but less small.

  

  Calista Flockhart
  • Small
  • Wish
  • Big

• I love writing on trains. The joy of being a writer is it's all in your head; you don't need materials apart from the laptop. It's like taking your work home with you, so you can feel grounded in your own insane writerly realities wherever you are.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Love

• I kept buying bigger and bigger jeans, and once the size 14s got too tight, I thought, That's it. I'm not buying the next size.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Thought
  • Size
  • Jeans

• Paint the essential character of things.

  

  Camille Pissarro
  • Art
  • Character
  • Paint

• All facts prove that the Saenuri Party is a group of traitors who stoop to any infamy to realize its ambition to seize power.

  

  Park Geun-hye
  • Power
  • Party
  • Ambition

• In general, the mass media tell us that black people are not loving, that our lives are so fraught with violence and aggression that we have no time to love.

  

  bell hooks
  • People
  • Time
  • Black

• I was years older than you when I became an ambassador for the first time. Remember that, Tycho? How did we get through that assignment, anyway?” “Pretty much, we opened fire on everyone who disagreed with us.” Wedge nodded and turned to his daughter. “When all else fails, just do that.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Years

• I think if we don't fix the economy and if we don't fix foreign policy, we won't have the luxury of dealing with domestic issues that may be important to Christians but we have to understand that in my view, we've taken our eyes off the ball a bit.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Important
  • May
  • Eyes

• The way you get better is putting words on the page and getting them behind you.

  

  Ridley Pearson
  • Way
  • Behinds
  • Pages

• Museums, I think, are becoming more and more aware of how to turn themselves into a must-see spectacle.

  

  Jake Barton