Mary Timony Quotes

I'm much more of a musician than a poet. I just feel much more confident about my musical abilities.

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• I hate the way chorus boxes sound.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Way
  • Hate
  • Sound

• Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Desire
  • Fame
  • Away

• It has become cheaper to look for oil on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange than in the ground.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • New
  • New York
  • Stock

• As a senior at Princeton, I felt like the whole world was open to me. In our country, that's not a given. We aspire to be a place of equal opportunity, and yet where you're born determines your prospects.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • World
  • Country
  • Opportunity

• The game is meant to be fun.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Fun
  • Game
  • Meant To Be

• In my hometown of Chicago, I'm kind of a medium deal.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Kind
  • Chicago
  • Hometown

• There is no child left within me, none whatsoever.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Child
  • Left
  • Within

• Women need to learn to value themselves. But that has to be inculcated in men as much as women.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Men
  • Women
  • Value

• To be able to read and write, therefore, is to learn to profit by and take part in the greatest of human achievements - that which makes all other achievements possible -namely, the pooling of our experiences in great cooperative stores of knowledge, available

  

  S. I. Hayakawa
  • Great
  • Knowledge

• But, suppose, besides, that the making of the new machinery affords employment to a greater number of mechanics, can that be called compensation to the carpet makers, thrown on the streets?

  

  Karl Marx

• Trump is a potential disaster as commander-in-chief-uninformed, volatile, poor judgment. Hard to believe this is the candidate of a major political party.

  

  Barry McCaffrey
  • Believe
  • Political
  • Party

• Benchmarks are targets that have to be fulfilled. They cannot be fulfilled in an indefinite period of time, so there are timetables in benchmarks.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Time
  • Period

• He’s lying. I have no doubt he’s excellent at it.

  

  M. K. Hobson
  • Doubt

• I was expecting Pop Bassett to give an impersonation of a bomb falling on an ammunition dump, but he didn’t. Instead, he continued to exhibit that sort of chilly stiffness which you see in magistrates when they’re fining people five quid for boyish peccadilloes.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • People

• Once you get it into your head that somebody is controlling events, you can interpret everything in that light and find no reasonable certainty anywhere.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Light

• Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

  

  Kahlil Gibran
  • Progress
  • Lies

• ... no diplomatic intervention will ever be made by any government that I lead in support of any individual terrorist's life. We have only indicated in the past, and will maintain a policy in the future, of intervening diplomatically in support of Australian nationals who face capital sentences abroad.

  

  Kevin Rudd
  • Life
  • Future
  • Past

• Judges who find Constitutional rights the Framers never intended take important issues out of the public space of democratic debate and suspend them in a sort of legal formaldehyde.

  

  Antonin Scalia
  • Important
  • Space

• I had a brother once, he drowned in a bathtub,before he'd ever learned how to talk.And I don't know what his name wasbut my mother does,I heard her say it once, she said,'Padraic, my prince, I have all but died from the sheer weight of my shame:you cried but no-one came.'

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • She
  • Mother
  • Brother

• I love writing for young people. It's the literature that was most important to me, the stories that shaped me and informed my own journey as a writer.

  

  Jacqueline Woodson
  • People
  • Important
  • Writing

• I think of my life as a journey, and I'm still on it.

  

  Jim Brown
  • Life
  • Journey

• No longer do companies study consumers' psyches only by asking people what they think about technology and how they use it. Now they conduct observational research, dispatching anthropologists to employ their ethnographic skills by interviewing, watching and videotaping consumers in their natural habitats.

  

  Katie Hafner
  • People
  • Technology
  • Study

• If you look at the people who make up the Bravo landscape from Jeff Lewis to Rachel Zoe and Padma Lakshmi and Tabatha Coffey and the 'Millionaire Matchmaker,' these are very strong personalities that people love to watch and that you... don't see anywhere else.

  

  Andy Cohen
  • People
  • Up
  • Strong

• I'm much more of a musician than a poet. I just feel much more confident about my musical abilities.

  

  Mary Timony