Gayle Rankin Quotes

All of my characters, I feel, have some essence of who I am in them.

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• I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • People
  • Work
  • Teach

• A company logo may be the last thing cost-conscious CEOs focus on when they're looking to jump-start growth. Which is perhaps why it took more than two decades for White Mountain Footwear, a privately held shoe manufacturer based in Lisbon, N.H., to finally give its own emblem some serious thought.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Why
  • May
  • Focus

• Growing up, there were no families on TV that looked like mine.

  

  Laura Harrier
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Like

• I don't like things like little sandals that look fragile. I like to look strong and commanding.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Strong
  • Like
  • Look

• Being my dad's daughter has allowed me to do a lot of things that maybe another artist might not be able to do or wouldn't be necessarily embraced doing.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Me
  • Dad
  • Artist

• I have reaffirmed my political will to work towards national unity.

  

  Abdelaziz Bouteflika
  • Work
  • Political
  • Unity

• I think that music is still art, even if it's commercialised.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • Music
  • Art
  • Think

• From Enve Composites to Bluehouse Skis, Utah companies are making breakthrough products for biking, winter sports, water sports and more.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Water
  • Sports
  • Winter

• There is no uncreated being except God. God has no opposite.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Being
  • Opposite

• Nothing guarantees that reasonable people will agree about everything, of course, but the unreasonable are certain to be divided by their dogmas. It is time we recognized that this spirit of mutual inquiry, which is the foundation of all real science, is the very antithesis of religious faith.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Time
  • Real

• I'm not running for office. I just want people to come to my stuff and escape and see me as a character, not as anything else.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • People
  • Character
  • Me

• I announce the resignation of the government, perhaps as the only way for Lebanon's main political blocs to assume their responsibilities and come together to pull Lebanon out of an unknown tunnel.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • Together
  • Political
  • Government

• I thought to myself, there's a man who gave up his life to serve others - to touch people in that way is probably the greatest thing you can do as a human being.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Life
  • Think
  • Humor

• I always thought if I had a band it would have the energy and feel of early Police, since that's where my roots are, and then the harmonies of the Eagles, and the technique of King Crimson or something like that. Fast, up-tempo, beat-the-hell-out-of-the-drums, because that's my style. Energy, but sophistication, rhythmically and melodically.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Up
  • Energy
  • Band

• Dictators never invent their own opportunities.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Never
  • Opportunities
  • Own

• The Thirties are a great mix of everyday glamour and something a bit more practical.

  

  Nanette Lepore
  • Great
  • Everyday
  • More

• It's really easy to project this whole ideology of what being an artiste is, and I'm just not down with intellectualizing it. I just think, if you feel like doing something, then do it.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Think
  • Easy
  • Down

• She laughed out loud. It was a very nice laugh. No girl looks beautiful when she’s laughing hard, and girls who worry about looking beautiful don’t do it. Dorotha Keefer looked like a healthy, pretty girl having a good time, which when you come down to it is about the best way for a girl to look.

  

  Frederik Pohl
  • Time
  • Good
  • She

• I placed a jar in Tennessee And round it was, upon a hill. It made the slovenly wilderness Surround that hill. The wilderness rose upon it, And sprawled around, no longer wild.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Rose

• Fourteen heart attacks and he had to die in my week. In MY week.

  

  Janis Joplin
  • Heart
  • Die

• For we think back through our mothers if we are women.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Thinking
  • Mother
  • Mom

• All of my characters, I feel, have some essence of who I am in them.

  

  Gayle Rankin