William Collins Quotes

Each one is a gift, no doubt, mysteriously placed in your waking hand or set upon your forehead moments before you open your eyes.

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• Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Fear
  • Light
  • Dark

• My aim is to change the social norms of Pakistan; women here look up to me. I started very early, worked on myself, and the effect is for all to see.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • Up
  • Women
  • Change

• Women dress very much according to their moods, so when you see their shoes, it really shows you the character and what they want to show to the world, and what they are feeling at that time.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Time
  • World
  • Women

• The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Lie
  • Measure
  • Tape

• I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Done
  • Mother
  • Pretty

• Getting to perform at the Carlyle, following in the footsteps of women like Elaine Stritch, Barbara Cook, Christine Ebersole, Kelli O'Hara, and so many others, is nothing short of a dream come true.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Women
  • True
  • Dream

• We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Heroes
  • Conflicts
  • Tale

• Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • You
  • Always
  • Once

• I like almonds as a snack - keeps your energy up but doesn't fill you up.

  

  Ina Garten
  • Up
  • You
  • Energy

• Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Wanted
  • Accident
  • Blueprint

• The Georges were fair; they left all to the Government; but Anne was very bad and a tyrant. She tyrannised over the Irish. She died broken-hearted with all the bad things that were going on about her. For Queen Anne was very wicked; oh, very wicked, indeed!

  

  Lady Gregory
  • She
  • Bad
  • Government

• I never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood. I certainly never would have wanted to be in the business that I'm in, meaning the fame and the glory, the glitter, the rock star, the famous part.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Business
  • Rock
  • Star

• A lot of guys go in immediately for status, as opposed to comfort and allowing their home to tell a story about them.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Home
  • Story
  • Comfort

• When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride - I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Ride
  • Egypt
  • Outsider

• I feel lucky to be getting older. The fact that I made it to 30 and then 40 was big enough. So I can't get too down on getting older; otherwise, it kind of undoes everything I've fought for.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Down
  • Lucky
  • Getting Older

• We're looking for people out there who have demonstrated that they are leaders, have track records of achievement, and want to be part of a force... of a much larger force of determined people who want to bring about, ultimately, institutional change.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • People
  • Change
  • Achievement

• There was a space program before there was integrated circuits.

  

  Jack Kilby
  • Space
  • Before
  • Space Program

• There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Hair
  • Cure
  • Gray

• It seems so easy to write about some normal event and twist it a little bit to make it into a supernatural event.

  

  Arthur Slade
  • Supernatural

• There is no way of being almost funny or mildly funny or fairly funny or tolerably funny. You are either funny or not funny and there is nothing in between. And usually it is the writer who thinks he is funny and the reader who thinks he isn't.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Funny

• I guess Judd (Apatow) is my soul mate because we have a lot of hard times, and it's great at times, too.

  

  Leslie Mann
  • Soul
  • Hard
  • Times

• There are, it is true, at present no great prizes in literature such as are offered by the learned professions, but there are quite as many small ones - competences; while, on the other hand, it is not so much of a lottery.

  

  James Payn
  • Great
  • True
  • Small

• I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives on.

  

  Rita Dove
  • Moments
  • Details
  • Prefer

• Each one is a gift, no doubt, mysteriously placed in your waking hand or set upon your forehead moments before you open your eyes.

  

  William Collins
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