James Gates Percival Quotes

On thy fair bosom, silver lake, The wild swan spreads his snowy sail,And round his breast the ripples break As down he bears before the gale.

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• I'd love to be 'People Magazine''s Sexiest Man Alive, but I think that that's a ways off. I have to stop wearing sweat pants, and then we'll work on that.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Work
  • Man

• I never want to hold myself up as the poster child of the successful mother-businesswoman. It's a total 'Gong Show.' I won't pretend. When you do so many things, something always suffers. You just can't be great at everything.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Up
  • Great
  • Mother

• I feel like I personally have been lucky.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Lucky

• I knew that God put me on this earth to be on the radio.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • God
  • Earth
  • Me

• You have to think that the answer - and the right answer - for you and your organization might not be something that's been done before. And it's up to you to discover and work with your team to form and figure out how to do successfully.

  

  Abigail Johnson
  • Up
  • Work
  • Done

• My first film 'Saawariya' was a flop; I don't regret it.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Film
  • First
  • Regret

• The ownership of computers in the home is far less than the statistics show, because usually when the computer breaks down once, that is the end of it for a long, long time. They do not have the money or incentive to get the computer repaired.

  

  Major Owens
  • Time
  • Long
  • Money

• Andy Grammer is probably the closest friend I have in the music industry, so touring with him was just incredible. He's such a soulful, kind guy, and he gives great advice. And he also scares me a lot. He does a lot of pranks.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Great
  • Music
  • Guy

• I'm there on all the social networking sites, as it plays an important role.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Important
  • Role
  • Networking

• Mainly what I learned from Buddy... was an attitude. He loved music, and he taught me that it shouldn't have any barriers to it.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Music
  • Me
  • Attitude

• I'm used to doing independent film where the style is a lot more casual. With improvising, you obviously find so much out on the day - and in a way, I feel more comfortable doing that.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Day
  • Style
  • Independent

• The process of unleashing worms on organic waste such as food scraps and grass clippings is known as 'vermicomposting.' Amateur horticulturists and hippies have been doing it on a small scale for decades.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Small
  • Food
  • Doing

• Consider the bloody history of Europe: there was a great aspiration for high culture, yet this very same culture was shaped by brutality and barbarism.

  

  Ori Gersht
  • Great
  • History
  • High

• Not a day has gone by in my life when I haven't thought about death.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Life
  • Death
  • Day

• When you're a star, critics can't make or break you.

  

  Patricia McBride
  • You
  • Star
  • Make

• Albania does not feel alone. It is part of the Partnership for Peace structures in NATO, and it will do what it can within that.

  

  Fatos Nano
  • Peace
  • Alone
  • Partnership

• I think it's important for little girls growing up, and young women, to have one in every walk of life. So from that point of view, I'm proud to be a role model!

  

  Sally Ride
  • Life
  • Up
  • Important

• Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

• When we go to see comedians or funny movies, they don't address the wall behind them; they face us. This is why a game's first job is to entertain through gameplay and secondarily through humor, drama, or other traditional entertainment devices. The humor has to be a gentleman. I mean, it needs to be squeezed in around the game.

  

  Doug TenNapel
  • Why
  • Job
  • Game

• Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Believe
  • Spiritual

• Fans love Sosa for his exuberance, for the kisses he blows to his mother, wife and four children. He is Slammin' Sammy, a fairy-tale figure rising from poverty in the Dominican Republic to the 55th floor above Chicago's Lake Shore Drive.

  

  Bill Dedman
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Wife

• You know who we hear about all the rappers from? The bus drivers.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • You
  • Know
  • Bus

• On thy fair bosom, silver lake, The wild swan spreads his snowy sail,And round his breast the ripples break As down he bears before the gale.

  

  James Gates Percival
  • Lake