Jimmy Wales Quotes

Mostly, I try to take a rational approach to life.

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• Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • College
  • Painting
  • Arts

• When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?

  

  Park Shin-hye
  • Marriage
  • Thought
  • Year

• I've thought for a long time that my body type would have worked well in the '70s. The idea that you could be a broad-shouldered, small-breasted woman and still wear really great outfits.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Time
  • Great
  • Long

• Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.

  

  Gale Norton
  • Help
  • Environment
  • Innovation

• The relationship between violence and nonviolence in this country is interesting. The fact of the matter is, you know, people do respond to riots. The 1968 Housing Act was in large response to riots that broke out after Dr. Martin Luther King was killed. They cited these as an actual inspiration.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Violence
  • Inspiration
  • Respond

• Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
  • Learn
  • Being
  • Realize

• We are breaking new ground in the territory of dumb with 'Shooting Fish.' Dumb, but in good taste. Silly, but not ridiculous.

  

  Dan Futterman
  • Good
  • Silly
  • Dumb

• Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • People
  • Long
  • Surprise

• You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.

  

  Aaron Copland
  • Live
  • Today
  • Feelings

• What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Art
  • Decisions
  • Invite

• I think every business, really, has a unique reason for being, unique assets, unique attributes, a unique history. And that can be turned into a very attractive design story, essentially, that consumers can relate to.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Business
  • History
  • Design

• We have no chance to comprehend what goes on there - it's so dramatic, and people are so poor. We all felt bad about being there. Filming in India felt like we were going to borrow something knowing that we were never going to give it back.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • People
  • Bad
  • Chance

• Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Style
  • Unique
  • Yourself

• The only people who usually have input on my writing are my wife and my editor. I'm not in conversation with anyone except the people I report on and the people I work with.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Work
  • Writing

• Not only are a voteless people a hopeless people. A non-producing people are hopeless also.

  

  Ralph Abernathy
  • People
  • Only
  • Hopeless

• I love Christopher Bailey and Burberry, Mulberry for bags, and Hudson for jeans.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Jeans

• I always love China, especially the old China.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Love
  • Always
  • Old

• I'm kind of like a bit of everything wrapped into one.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Kind
  • Like
  • Everything

• It's no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Universe
  • Crying

• A lot of writing I do on tour. I do a lot on airplanes. At home, I write a lot, obviously. When I write a song, what I usually do is work the lyric out first from some basic idea that I had, and then I get an acoustic guitar and I sit by the tape recorder and I try to bang it out as it comes.

  

  Pete Townshend The Who
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Home

• I had to learn to not be so hard. And I had a wife and, at that time, a partner when Samori was born, and for most of Samori's life, a partner, who, for whatever reason, did not have to learn that and was very tender and very, very soft with him.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Life
  • Time
  • Wife

• In my life, the sky is literally the ceiling.

  

  Jimmy Graham
  • Life
  • Sky

• Elinor was still staring at this missive, her plucked brows drawn together in distaste, when the door opened. The maid announced, 'Mr Welman,' and Roddy came in.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Together
  • Door

• Mostly, I try to take a rational approach to life.

  

  Jimmy Wales
  • Life