Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Quotes

You know you knit too much when ... Before you buy anything, such as a hammock or curtains, you seriously wonder whether you could knit it.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

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• When you're in your early 20s your love life seems to explode every 20 minutes or so. By the time you've reached your thirties, it is every five or ten years.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • Life
  • Time
  • Love

• I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Music
  • Important

• All the body wants to do biologically is decompose. Once you die, it's, 'Let me out here! I'm ready to shoot my atoms back into the universe!'

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • Die
  • Universe
  • Body

• If it is true that we have a personal relationship with God, then that's enough for me.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • God
  • True
  • Me

• I respect Apple. It's a great company that changed the world, especially the mobile time.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Time
  • World
  • Great

• I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.

  

  Mae West
  • Real
  • Model
  • Lady

• The cause of war is preparation for war.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • War
  • Preparation

• 'Yes,' he said, 'intelligence does enable you to deny facts you dislike. But your denial doesn’t matter. A cancer growing in someone’s body will go on growing in spite of denial. And a complex combination of genes that work together to make you intelligent as well as hierarchical will still handicap you whether you acknowledge it or not.'

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Work
  • Together
  • Growing

• In response I am sending you some pictures which I painted in Paris out of homesickness for Russia. They are not very typical of me; I have selected the most modest ones for the Russian exhibition.

  

  Marc Chagall
  • Paris

• I continually marvel at people who can make films that reach five hundred million people. How do you do that? Everybody's different - I don't know how that works.

  

  James Gray
  • People
  • Different

• When in times of turmoil and breakup, do not cut or shave your head, because it will never end well.

  

  Christine Lakin
  • Breakup

• The whole body reacts to color. If you were to walk into an all-neon-pink room, it would be difficult not to react. I think it is a unified, human thing to feel color with everything. It is like standing next to a bass speaker plugged into your eyeballs.

  

  Jim Drain
  • Color
  • Pink

• America has always had tinkerers, including just about any teenager who ever hot-rodded a Camaro.

  

  Clive Thompson
  • America
  • Teenager

• Mixtapes are always small scale to me - they never get taken seriously, and they're always short-lived.

  

  ASAP Ferg
  • Small
  • Taken

• But how odd that in this heathen nation of empty pews, where churches' bare, ruined choirs are converted into luxury loft living, a Labour government - yes, a Labour government - is deliberately creating a huge expansion of faith schools.

  

  Polly Toynbee
  • Faith

• I think it's kind of odd that 'This Old Road' was the first video I ever did. Because of all of the work I had done in films and everything, you'd think I would have done a video before that.

  

  Kris Kristofferson
  • Work
  • Done
  • Road

• I've been collecting jerseys and shoes my whole career.

  

  Tyronn Lue
  • Career
  • Shoes

• I always eat mac and cheese. That's what I'm known for, just very simple food: sandwiches, French fries, very unhealthy, but yeah that's what I eat.

  

  Bethany Mota
  • Food
  • Simple

• For me, as a woman in one of the less diverse fields - electrical engineering, which is what I studied in college - it was hard to persist and really build a career. Some of the things I experienced were really scary, and they weren't experiences that I wanted for my daughter.

  

  Kimberly Bryant
  • Career
  • College
  • Daughter

• I'm a big fan of things in writing in general that are subtle, that suggest something without actually in-your-face saying it. And it's funny, I've started to notice it, I started to see it after a while, that that's kind of a way of writing that I was doing. But I didn't set about to do that.

  

  Nina Nastasia
  • Writing
  • Way
  • Notice

• I wonder about guys like Sean Hannity, Keith Olbermann and Mark Levin. They're on such a mission. I mean, I love Hannity and Levin to death, but on the radio they're insane. How can you keep that up?

  

  Don Imus
  • Up
  • Death
  • Wonder

• The numbers that are driving male support have to do costs and the future and being ready for the future while women are probably more likely to be concerned about the potential implications and risks of nuclear energy.

  

  Nik Nanos
  • Support
  • Risks
  • Implications

• You know you knit too much when ... Before you buy anything, such as a hammock or curtains, you seriously wonder whether you could knit it.

  

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
  • Wonder
  • Curtains
  • Hammocks