William Feather Quotes

In many lines of wok, it isn't how much you do that counts, but how much you do well and how often you decide right.

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• When I go a stretch without tweeting, I will occasionally get an email from my mom, checking in. I always find this amusing but also gratifying: Thanks to Twitter, I can keep in touch with my parents and let them in on what I'm doing in a way that even the regular phone calls of a doting daughter can't do.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Parents
  • Mom
  • Daughter

• Pop culture, it's crazy. There's all this violence in video games. In 'Call of Duty,' people are literally just blowing other people up. Hey, let's protect your country from your couch while eating your sandwich.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• Marilyn and I were rumored to be an item. We were friends. Nothing more. Marilyn was one of the sweetest creatures that ever lived.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Friends
  • Nothing
  • More

• I'm not a fan of action movies.

  

  Olivier Megaton
  • Action
  • Movies
  • Fan

• Pretty is so boring now. There are so many different definitions of 'pretty.' It's so much broader than before. The old pretty is boring - nobody cares anymore.

  

  Zendaya
  • Different
  • Pretty
  • Old

• Water is always a support or a healing thing apart from, you know, love or peace of mind.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Mind
  • Love
  • Peace

• To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name.

  

  Vachel Lindsay
  • Live
  • Name
  • Mankind

• Whenever I organize or participate in public protest I get really worried that it will just suck, be really small, embarrassing, and the media will laugh at me. Oftentimes, it is really small and most of the time the media laughs at us.

  

  Rachel Corrie
  • Time
  • Small
  • Media

• Any item of clothing that covers the face and makes it impossible to identify individuals is open to abuse.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Impossible
  • Face
  • Abuse

• Ideas sometimes come from nowhere, and sometimes they take lots of thinking.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Thinking
  • Ideas
  • Sometimes

• The only thing we lack for even faster growth is more capital.

  

  Magnus Larsson
  • Growth
  • More
  • Faster

• But as far as I'm concerned, I can still play defense.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Play
  • I Can
  • Far

• When I write, I try to think back to what I was afraid of or what was scary to me, and try to put those feelings into books.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Feelings
  • Write
  • Books

• Because in big and diverse societies like ours, progress ultimately depends on something more basic, and that is how we see each other. And we know from experience what makes nations strong. And Neha I think did a great job of describing the essence of what’s important here. We are strongest when we see the inherent dignity in every human being.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Great
  • Important
  • Experience

• What’s our excuse today for not voting? How do we so casually discard the right for which so many fought? How do we so fully give away our power, our voice, in shaping America’s future? Why are we pointing to somebody else when we could take the time just to go to the polling places? We give away our power.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Why
  • Power

• I was responsible to no one, I had no need mumble excuses or lies. I would become someone else and my metamorphosis would be so complete that no one I’d met over the past fifteen years would be able to recognize me. (116)

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Past
  • Lies
  • Excuses

• Sich Alles, was zum leiblichen Wohlseyn beiträgt, zu verschaffen, ist der Zweck seines Lebens. Glücklich genug, wenn dieser ihm viel zu schaffen macht! Denn, sind jene Güter ihm schon zum voraus oktroyirt; so fällt er unausbleiblich der Langenweile anheim.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer

• From the beginning of time, business has cozied up to government and gotten restrictions on competition and subsidies and stuff.

  

  Charles Koch
  • Up
  • Time
  • Business

• I'm a big Broadway fan and a big MGM fan.

  

  Lindsay Mendez

• 'Well, you know what they say about John, anyway?'

  

  Dylan Moran

• And that boys," yelled Mr. Weasley over the tumult of the crowd below,"is why you should never go for looks alone!

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Why
  • Alone
  • Looks

• What was I like? I had a high-pitched voice. Sounded a bit like a girl. Spoke with a Stoke accent, tremendously naive. Overconfident. Tremendously overconfident. And underconfident at the same time - really, really bad combination! Gets you places, though.

  

  Robbie Williams Take That
  • Accent
  • Naive
  • Stoke

• Interestingly enough, for me, a character like Captain Jack, you feel like you could just continue. The possibilities are endless and limitless. There is any possibility of madness and absurdity that could commence, so you feel that, with this character, you're never really done.

  

  Johnny Depp
  • Character
  • Endless
  • Limitless

• In many lines of wok, it isn't how much you do that counts, but how much you do well and how often you decide right.

  

  William Feather