Stockard Channing (Susan Antonia Williams Stockard) Quotes

I have no idea if world peace is attainable. But aiming for it is.

Stockard Channing

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• I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.

  

  Cameron Sinclair
  • Community
  • Build
  • Hats

• Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Great
  • Heaven
  • Eye

• The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Myself
  • Understand
  • Talk

• I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Love
  • Road
  • Husband

• You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Mind
  • Identity
  • Find

• As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • People
  • Security
  • Own

• In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.

  

  Daniel Defoe
  • Trouble
  • Your
  • Troubled

• New voices in an old art - and women poets have been that for much more than a century - do not diminish the art through the category. They enrich it. They renew it with common quandaries of craft and innovation. The category simply allows the quandaries to be seen more clearly.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Women
  • Art
  • Innovation

• How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • People
  • Family
  • Support

• I want to serve the people.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • People
  • Want
  • Serve

• I want to live my life naked, with all my little naked kids naked in the garden.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Life
  • Live
  • Kids

• Nothing can be as astounding as life. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the sole consolation.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Nothing

• I am lactose intolerant, and I always thought it was really funny how people who are lactose intolerant continue to eat dairy, because they like it so much. And I find it not acceptable.

  

  Lake Bell
  • People
  • Funny
  • Thought

• One of the fun things about unreliable narrators is they can be funny. You can admire things about them and laugh with them.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Fun
  • Funny
  • Laugh

• The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Art
  • Value
  • Beauty

• Don't swim up stream, baby. The future was right where you were. 23.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Up
  • Future
  • Baby

• Every man harbors an inner female territory ruled by his mother, from whom he can never entirely break free.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Mother
  • Free

• I love the idea that I planned my career. I did not. It started out by getting invitations from artists that I really love and respect, to share a stage... I've been very lucky in that I haven't had to create a five-year plan. It's evolved.

  

  M. Ward
  • Love
  • Career
  • Respect

• We may avoid much disappointment and bitterness of soul by learning to understand how little necessary to our joy and peace are the things the multitude most desire and seek.

  

  John Lancaster Spalding
  • May
  • Soul
  • Peace

• Every day of my life, I make an effort. Like, everything's an effort - a good effort.

  

  Finn Jones
  • Life
  • Good
  • Day

• I do realize that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation. I'm an escapist kind of writer.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • People
  • Popular
  • Writer

• A free citizen in a free state, it seems to me, has an inalienable right to play with whomsoever he will, so long as he does not disturb the general peace. If any other citizen, offended by the spectacle, makes a pother, then that other citizen, and not the man exercising his inalienable right, should be put down by the police.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Long
  • Free
  • Peace

• I have no idea if world peace is attainable. But aiming for it is.

  

  Stockard Channing
  • Peace
  • Idea
  • Aiming