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

• When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'

  

  Lao Tzu
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• 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

• You can't say yes to every role, and you have to make people miss you. I don't want people to get sick of me.

  

  Tahj Mowry
  • People
  • Want
  • Sick

• I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Believe
  • House
  • Church

• 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
  • Words
  • You

• 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
  • Wall
  • Voice

• You're not a slave to those test audiences.

  

  Adam McKay
  • You
  • Slave
  • Test

• 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 came out to my parents as gay, and then I realized, you know, four or five years later, that I wasn't really happy, no relationships were working, and there was something missing in my life, and you know, I was doing drag, performing and stuff, and I realized through that arc that I was much happier doing that.

  

  Candis Cayne
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Parents

• The sense of being Jewish never left me, but when my grandmother died, I rebelled against Judaism as I knew it then, which was Orthodox. I saw the rituals, a lot of them, as very male, for a long time.

  

  Marge Piercy
  • Time
  • Long
  • Grandmother

• In 2000, I fell in love. I had never felt anything like that before in my life. It kind of took me over.

  

  Chris Robinson The Black Crowes
  • Life

• I think it's most important for children to understand the concept of respect and manners and also work ethic. I have a responsibility to those who came before me.

  

  Andy Garcia
  • Work
  • Important
  • Children

• It is our nation which is blind, and needs our prayers.

  

  Jonathan Kozol

• I tend to be a person who starts with the presumption that I should trust you until you abuse the privilege, and then our relationship is forever changed. That's a very big line, and chances are it's not going to work if it's crossed. I warn people that this is how I'm going to deal with it.

  

  Penny Pritzker
  • People
  • Work
  • Relationship

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

  

  Silvia Cartwright
  • Energy
  • Picture
  • Plough