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

• Exceed your customer's expectations. If you do, they'll come back over and over. Give them what they want - and a little more.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Want
  • Expectations
  • Customer

• There are ogres and black beasts out there; you have to be constantly on guard.

  

  Ted Knight
  • You
  • Black
  • Guard

• 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

• The shift to a cleaner energy economy wont happen overnight, and it will require tough choices along the way. But the debate is settled. Climate change is a fact.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Energy
  • Change
  • Choices

• 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
  • Style

• I have this long-running idea that the distinction between fiction and nonfiction is not just, 'Did it happen or didn't it happen?' It's one of form.

  

  Geoff Dyer
  • Long
  • Running

• I do not believe, as do so many musicians, that genius should be left to fight its way to the light. Genius is too rare, too precious, to be permitted to waste the best years of life--the years of youth and lofty dreams--in a heart-breaking struggle for bread. To starve the soul with the body is to do worse than murder. Think, too, of what the public loses!

  

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Thinking

• A good deal of confusion could be avoided, if we refrained from setting before the group, what can be the aim only of the individual; and before society as a whole, what can be the aim only of the group.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Good
  • Society
  • Groups

• Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Dinner
  • Depends
  • Apple

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

  

  Gayle Rankin