Rowan Williams (Rowan Douglas Williams) Quotes

My visit this autumn is an opportunity to continue that rich tradition of visits between Canterbury and Rome.

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• I love Rag & Bone, Dior, and Valentino; I like feminine, sexy things. Dolce & Gabbana and Chanel, too.

  

  Ieva Laguna
  • Like
  • Things
  • Sexy

• I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Live
  • Like
  • Audience

• The charms of women were never more powerful never inspired such achievements, as in those immortal periods, when they could neither read nor write.

  

  Hannah Cowley
  • Women
  • Powerful
  • Never

• As the egalitarianism of Marxism is attractive to many, socialism could have attracted many followers in America, anyway. But there is no doubt that it could not possibly have affected us so widely and so deeply as it has, had it not been heavily financed.

  

  B. Carroll Reece
  • America
  • Doubt
  • Socialism

• A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it's time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Up
  • Time
  • Home

• I just love expanding my horizons and growing as an artist. The only way you get to do that is by doing something that scares you or takes you out of your comfort zone.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Artist
  • Get
  • Comfort Zone

• When I was growing up, in the '80s and '90s, I just never really saw myself reflected in the things that I had a liking for. It makes a difference.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Myself

• Asthma doesn't affect me, even though I have it. It can seem like it wants to act up a little if I'm nervous before going on stage, but that's natural to many performers. If I think it's going to be a problem, I just reach for my inhaler.

  

  Gary Valentine
  • Problem
  • Act
  • Nervous

• I was a commercial roofer before this, until about age thirty. I will not work others under me and do not want to work under others.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Work
  • Age
  • Me

• It is an agreeable and yet a painful sense of novelty to stand for the first time in the midst of a people whose language and manners are different from one's own.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• I gotta do what I think is right, and if enough people like it, I'm a winner. And if they don't, I'll open a bookstore.

  

  Warren Spector
  • People
  • Think
  • Winner

• I have always followed exactly what interests me and never really worried about the money. And when you think about it, to be able to travel the world... on an expense account and do exactly what interests you, it just doesn't get much better than that.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • World
  • Money
  • Travel

• Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Experience
  • Change

• The biggest place I look for validation is from my mother. That's the little girl in me that will never grow up.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Girl

• I think that from the time you start playing sports as a child you see that your responsibility to your team is to play the best that you can play as an individual... and yet, not take anything away from being part of a team.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • Time
  • Team
  • Responsibility

• No crime lab in the world looks like the 'CSI' ones because there's simply not the money for all those fancy machines.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • World
  • Money
  • Crime

• I have been willing, in the case of civil statutes, to acknowledge a doctrine of scrivener's error that permits a court to give an unusual (though not unheard of) meaning to a word which, if given its normal meaning, would produce an absurd and arguably unconstitutional result.

  

  Antonin Scalia

• I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.

  

  Alice Walker
  • God
  • Color
  • Purple

• When you realize that the uncut 'Porgy and Bess' started me off, that I'd have the opportunity to do a ton of 'Stoppard,' 'Hairspray,' that I'm able to do 'Il Trittico' at the Met – how do I top that?

  

  Jack O'Brien
  • Opportunity
  • Realize
  • Top

• I understand a lot of celebrities lose weight because they have the opportunity to get in shape and become healthier, but when you get so polished, you can't tell the story of a blue-collar family anymore.

  

  Cristela Alonzo
  • Family
  • Opportunity
  • Blue

• I don't know the law, the kind of law of quantity and quality, but I think the opportunity of people being able to express themselves and to have the means of production is a great thing. It's also changing how we're telling stories.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • People
  • Great
  • Opportunity

• But you can't plead with autumn. No. The midnight wind stalked through the woods, hooted to frighten you, swept everything away for the approaching winter, whirled the leaves. ("The North")

  

  Yevgeny Zamyatin
  • Wind
  • Autumn
  • Swept

• Companies such as Microsoft, Cisco and Intel were just starting at their 10-year anniversary.

  

  Jerry Yang
  • Anniversary

• My visit this autumn is an opportunity to continue that rich tradition of visits between Canterbury and Rome.

  

  Rowan Williams
  • Opportunity
  • Rich
  • Tradition