William Feather Quotes
The big things that come our way are ... the fruit of seeds planted in the daily routine of our work.
Quotes to Explore
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All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
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It's hard to say how certain stories just punch us in the heart and the brain at the same time at the end. I suppose that's what we're all looking for. But each story has its own valence, its own way of saying goodbye to you.
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I was 25 years old when I arrived in D.C. It was just myself and two people who worked and helped me in the kitchen. I was only cooking for three people most of the time.
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You don't have to spend much time in Shanghai before you start to get all existential about the meaning of authenticity. Did you know that Shanghai is building nine satellite towns, each designed to mimic the architecture and culture of a different country?
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I think great artists have no time to waste with having disproportionate egos and irrational requests. They're too focused on their work to actually lose themselves in hysterical spirals where they become monsters or tyrants.
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Every single time you make a merger, somebody is losing his identity. And saying something different is just rubbish.
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The future is keeping you out of the present time.
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My life is not that glamorous. I actually live a pretty simple life, really. I just work. I don't have time to do all these glamorous things. I just do my thing, just work.
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If only I could step back into the time of old movies, if only I could be given the opportunity to do what Katharine Hepburn did or what Rosalind Russell did. Those kinds of characters, that kind of patter, that kind of language, that kind of script. They don't exist any more.
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The only time my workout goes a little haywire is when I'm travelling.
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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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With high underemployment - currently over one million part-time workers in the UK want to work more hours - sanctioning clients who cannot increase their hours seems to be both unworkable and unfair.
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Don't worry about never having time to write. Just write what you can in the time you do have and give yourself a big clap on the back, followed by a double latte and a blueberry muffin.
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I'm a perfectionist about being on time.
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Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
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The gym is where I get my chill-out time. I try to go six days a week, but when I'm working, that goes down to about three.
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I find just in terms of free time I'm always envious of people I know who... listen to music, watch films, play games, read books. I have to pick. And I find frequently that if I've got Sophie's Choice, I'll try to keep up with music and keep up with films. So my book reading and comic reading and game playing is terrible and infrequent.
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Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time.
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I want to talk about my very first play, when I was in eighth grade. One day, my English teacher, Mrs. Baker, announced that we were going to read 'On Borrowed Time' out loud in class. I was a mediocre student; I was terrified that she was going to call on me, so I hid my head.
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My most famous show is the 'Kitchen Show.' More famous than any gallery show or museum show I curated.
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I did a musical when I was 17, an amateur show, and I loved it.
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Designers have a reputation for setting the tone for what people - and especially women - are supposed to wear. How long their skirts should be, things like that. I have a different philosophy: put something out there with humour; let people see that and come around to it on their own.
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You Ministers go on shuffling the old cards till they are so worn out and dirty that one can hardly tell the pips on them.
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The big things that come our way are ... the fruit of seeds planted in the daily routine of our work.
