Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Quotes

A plain sock by itself is terribly boring, but it could score points by having a clever stitch pattern, or maybe by being made out of a very beautiful yarn that's an enchantment to work with. (Sadly, it is still infuriatingly true that being beautiful without being clever is almost worth more points than being clever without being beautiful, but such are the rules of life and knitting-they are cruel, but there anyway).

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

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• Boring
• Knitting
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• For us, overseas employment addresses two major problems: unemployment and the balance of payments position.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Balance
  • Problems

• When you're with your club team, every week you have a performance to judge. But when you're with the national team, it's a little different because you might not play for three or four months at a time. Things change constantly.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Time
  • Different
  • Team

• It's not quite right to be sitting outside India and to be judging what is happening in India.

  

  Vijay Mallya
  • Judging
  • India
  • Sitting

• I always have the impression that I write the same book.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Book
  • Write
  • Same

• Every company has to identify what I call its strategic resources, and make sure that it grabs as much of its strategic resources as possible.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Company
  • Possible
  • Resources

• We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Home
  • War
  • New

• Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
  • Important
  • Responsibility
  • Moral

• Being a teenager, it's so hard to find foundation that's good for your skin for everyday wear.

  

  Becky G
  • Good
  • Find
  • Everyday

• I always had challenges when I was younger, because I looked so young but sounded older.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Always
  • Challenges
  • Young

• If someone says you're a reporter and doesn't want you to anchor then you wonder why you worked so hard at it.

  

  Gayle Gardner
  • Why
  • Want
  • Wonder

• Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Art
  • Experience
  • End

• Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn't mean anything else.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • You
  • Language
  • Try

• I live in New York and got a call from my agent saying there was this new role on 'Mad Men,' it might be recurring and they're seeing people tomorrow. I said, 'OK, this is one of those things where you hedge your bets, use your miles and get on a plane.' I flew out Tuesday morning and got the job on a Wednesday.

  

  Cara Buono
  • People
  • Men
  • Live

• But my mom was a pianist, and she taught piano out of her house. I was just so excited, being a little kid and having all these other kids come to my house twice a week. I thought it was a big party.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
  • She
  • Kids
  • House

• The Marxist philosophy of dialectical materialism has two outstanding characteristics. One is its class nature: it openly avows that dialectical materialism is in the service of the proletariat. The other is its practicality: it emphasizes the dependence of theory on practice, emphasizes that theory is based on practice and in turn serves practice.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Nature
  • Practice
  • Service

• A repetition is the re-enactment of past experience toward the end of isolating the time segment which has lapsed in order that it, the lapsed time, can be savored of itself and without the usual adulteration of events that clog time like peanuts in brittle.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Past

• Bush has compiled a fiscal record of startling recklessness.

  

  Pat Buchanan

• Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.

  

  Alexander Hamilton

• I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Together
  • Dream
  • Mountain

• The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.

  

  Johann Sebastian Bach
  • Music
  • God
  • Soul

• God has linked holiness and happiness; and what God has joined together we must not think to put asunder.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • God
  • Thinking
  • Together

• I just think religion is something... It could be a beautiful thing for the individual, but when it becomes organized, that's when religion starts taking a kind of ugly turn to me.

  

  Daron Malakian System Of A Down
  • Beautiful
  • Ugly

• A plain sock by itself is terribly boring, but it could score points by having a clever stitch pattern, or maybe by being made out of a very beautiful yarn that's an enchantment to work with. (Sadly, it is still infuriatingly true that being beautiful without being clever is almost worth more points than being clever without being beautiful, but such are the rules of life and knitting-they are cruel, but there anyway).

  

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
  • Beautiful
  • Clever
  • Boring