John Webster Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
French 'Vogue' was always a photographer's magazine.
-
Many people think that the U.S. is ahead in the frontier technology sectors as a result of private sector entrepreneurship. It's not. The U.S. federal government created all these sectors.
-
There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.
-
I'm committed to sign in everything I communicate, but I also speak. I still believe that I reach more people when I do that. I bridge two different cultures and two different worlds, and I think that bridge still needs work.
-
I mean there are many people who have endorsed me that I agree with on some things and not others.
-
I don't think you should exploit your own pain.
-
In Don Mills in the Sixties, nothing comes close to the humiliation of losing an argument. In our weird little creative circle, no one cares who has faster fists, but to lose an argument suggests inferior intelligence.
-
If we cling to the institution of Islam, then we tend to defend it against whatever we see as a danger to it, so because of this we see now that many people are defending states, defending territories, defending everything institutional in the belief that they defend Islam.
-
Swing dance has been a part of my life since I was born.
-
Those who believe that health is a commodity, on par with cars or computers, fail to grasp the basic economic lesson that health is very vulnerable to exposure to the markets, not least due to the profound asymmetries in power between the providers and consumers.
-
I was interested in making work that physically changed as it circulated through the art world.
-
Travelling was a big part of my childhood and one that I value very much. In some respects, I can't help but be a bit of a gypsy as an adult. I get fidgety if I'm in one place for longer than three months.
-
I tried to hostess... but they fired me after four days because I couldn't figure out how seating plans worked.
-
I don't think your personal life has anything to do with your professional life. They are separate things. Whatever is happening at home shouldn't be carried to work. Everyone has his/her own journey. Some revel in the fact that they derive that from personal contentment, and others draw it from extreme sorrow.
-
I'm incredibly impatient; I'd like to be less so, and more content with the now.
-
Magic is who I am on the basketball court. Earvin is who I am.
-
You have to determine what you are and send the messages out to people, like, 'Hey, I'm a screenwriter - look at this.' You can't sit around, wondering why people aren't calling and asking about my writing.
-
It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line.
-
To live in a culture in which women are routinely naked where men aren't is to learn inequality in little ways all day long. So even if we agree that sexual imagery is in fact a language, it is clearly one that is already heavily edited to protect men’s sexual-and hence social-confidence while undermining that of women.
-
The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self.
-
But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
-
Sorrow is held the eldest child of sin.
