Michael W. Young Quotes

The physical malaise we feel when we travel reflects a desynchronizing of all the clocks that reside in our tissues.

Michael W. Young

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• Being on 'The Vampire Diaries' feels almost like a game you play when you're a kid. When I was a kid, I used to have to take the garbage out at night on Wednesdays. I lived out in the country. I'd take the garbage out, and I used to pretend that I was the only person in the whole world, except for one other person, and he was looking for me.

  

  Taylor Kinney
  • World
  • Country
  • Game

• Before I got into grad school, I used to work as a deck hand on these ferry boats in San Francisco, and they did day tours. It wasn't a bad job. I made decent money. But you were sitting down all day, tying up the boat, wiping it down. For some guys, that's a dream job, but for me it was kind of torture.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Up
  • Work
  • School

• Ironically, I'm a really crap liar, even though I do it for a living. I give away too much, somehow. I can't lie!

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Lie
  • Liar
  • Too Much

• I invested all my money in debt.

  

  Hamish Linklater
  • Money
  • Debt
  • Invested

• Dick Cheney and Bush's rise to power were built on tons of money from corporations and a dulled press.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Money
  • Power
  • Rise

• The transaction cost approach maintains that some projects are easy to finance by debt and ought to be financed by debt. These are projects for which physical-asset specificity is low to moderate.

  

  Oliver E. Williamson
  • Easy
  • Cost
  • Finance

• I've never asked for special treatment along the way. And I'm never going to hide the fact that I'm a girl, ever. That's obvious, isn't it?

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Girl
  • Never
  • Special

• I grew up in South Africa, but like many people at that time, I couldn't bear living in the country. The main motivation for moving to Britain was to get away.

  

  Manfred Mann
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• The slavery of Negroes in the South was not usually a deliberately cruel and oppressive system. It did not mean systematic starvation or murder.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Mean
  • Slavery
  • South

• They try to say this era was a tainted era. But so many great players played in the last 15 to 20 years. This is going to be the best era in the history of the game in my opinion.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Great
  • History
  • Game

• I love everything about playing for Newcastle, the club, the fans and the city.

  

  Gary Speed
  • City
  • Fans
  • Playing

• This volume was written for children. Miss Landon set out its purpose in the preface.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Children
  • Purpose

• If I could really move my career much more into predominantly directing, I would jump at that.

  

  Jason Alexander
  • Career
  • Jump

• I feel at various times in my life that I've been at a point where I had to choose between a death sentence and a life sentence. And I want to live. What do I do to live? What do I do to be vital? And the answer is always creativity. The answer is always art.

  

  Jodie Foster
  • Life
  • Live
  • Art

• On Sunday, we will Skype relatives - my brother lives in America, my best friend is in Canada, and Ryan's family are all in Australia.

  

  Katherine Kelly
  • Family
  • America
  • Friend

• I have four dogs, four horses, a cat, and a bunch of wild frogs.

  

  Daryl Hannah
  • Cat

• You can take the girl out of Vegas, but you can't take the Vegas out of the girl.

  

  Charisma Carpenter
  • Girl
  • Vegas

• When for so long you can't get a job for reasons that seem specious, you you finally do have it, you are constantly afraid of losing it.

  

  Jessica Savitch
  • Long
  • Job

• Bread pudding makes me weak. I have been known to be moved to tears by cookies and ice cream, and ribs are a spiritual experience for me.

  

  Bill Rancic
  • Experience
  • Spiritual
  • Tears

• To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Women
  • Ask
  • Sexuality

• It's often hard for us to imagine going without some of our luxuries like travel, dining out, or Internet, much less our basic necessities like food and water. But try for a minute to imagine how life would be with such deprivations.

  

  Marcus Samuelsson
  • Life
  • Food
  • Water

• You will, if you're wise and know the art of travel, let yourself go on the stream of the unknown and accept whatever comes in the spirit in which the gods may offer it.

  

  Freya Stark
  • Art
  • May
  • Travel

• The physical malaise we feel when we travel reflects a desynchronizing of all the clocks that reside in our tissues.

  

  Michael W. Young
  • Travel
  • Reflects
  • Clocks