Silvia Cartwright Quotes

We often plough so much energy into the big picture, we forget the pixels.

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• I happen to miss the Constitution; I thought it was a good document.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Good
  • Thought
  • Constitution

• I think of myself as a journeyman actor. I've got some talent and I work hard, but people like Brando or Pacino - those people are touched by God.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • People
  • Work
  • God

• I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Up
  • Children
  • Man

• A lot of writers, especially crime writers, have an image that we think we're trying to keep up with. You've got to be seen as dark and slightly dangerous. But I'm not like that and I've realised that I don't need to put that on. People will buy the books whether they see a photo of you dressed in black or not.

  

  Ian Rankin
  • People
  • Up
  • Trying

• Normally, I'm a grumpy old man - whenever I read about celebrity, I start to grind my teeth and pull my hair; it seems synonymous with idiocy.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Man
  • Hair
  • Start

• May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Country
  • May
  • Heaven

• I'd been ready too, because before Olympic Games, I wasn't compete in big competition like, World Championship, like European Championship. I just competed in national competition.

  

  Olga Korbut
  • World
  • Competition
  • Games

• My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Science
  • Action
  • Environmental

• You can stroke people with words.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • People
  • You
  • Words

• I am totally a fringe candidate, and so is Bill Weld: you know, two Republican governors serving in heavily blue states, outspoken, small government guys, outspoken on the social liberal side. We're fringe, totally. We're fringe.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Government
  • Republican
  • Candidate

• 'The Museum of Innocence' is not about politics; it's a love story, but I think it's political in the sense that it wants to capture how a man suppresses a woman.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Politics

• I want to thank Vox Media, The Verge, Recode, the 'Wall Street Journal,' and CNBC for giving me a voice.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Giving
  • Voice
  • Wall

• How important is failure - yes, failure - to the health of a thriving, innovative business? So important that Ratan Tata, chairman of India's largest corporation, gives an annual award to the employee who comes up with the best idea that failed.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Up
  • Important
  • Business

• I wasn't brought up with any religion, actually.

  

  Meg White The White Stripes
  • Up

• The physicists say that I am a mathematician, and the mathematicians say that I am a physicist. I am a completely isolated man and though everybody knows me, there are very few people who really know me.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • People
  • Know
  • Mathematician

• I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour.

  

  Mary Wollstonecraft
  • Society
  • Wish
  • Sex

• The cell, over the billions of years of her life, has covered the earth many times with her substance, found ways to control herself and her environment, and insure her survival.

  

  Albert Claude
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Control

• The last couple of practices, all we've been doing is a lot of defensive things. We've been going over some drills that make all of us have to communicate.

  

  Kevin Garnett
  • Couple

• "Where should I apply Perfume?" a young lady asked. "Where you want to be kissed."

  

  Coco Chanel
  • Lady
  • Perfume
  • Kissed

• My way of fitting in was through jokes and making people laugh.

  

  Carrot Top
  • Way
  • Laughing
  • Jokes

• Many of my students assume that government protection is the only thing ensuring decent wages for most American workers. But basic economics shows that competition between employers for workers can be very effective at preventing businesses from misbehaving.

  

  Christina Romer
  • American
  • Competition

• Things are coming to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade private life.

  

  Lord Melbourne
  • Life
  • Pretty

• I'm a vegetarian, and I long for people to eat less meat, but the thing to do is not to go, 'Eat! Less! Meat!' It's to say, 'I am fit as a flea and I'm 63, I haven't eaten meat for 40 years, and I never get diseases, I'm never ill, and I'm full of energy. So how's about that?'

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • People
  • Long
  • Energy

• We often plough so much energy into the big picture, we forget the pixels.

  

  Silvia Cartwright
  • Energy
  • Picture
  • Plough