William Feather Quotes

Improvement of one's economic position is helped more by cool persistence than by hot enthusiasm.

William Feather

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• The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Life
  • World
  • Great

• There is no doubt whatsoever that the universe is the merest illusion.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Universe
  • Doubt
  • Illusion

• I don't want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • Song
  • Process

• You win pennants in the off season when you build your teams with trades and free agents.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Free
  • Win
  • Season

• People want entertainment, a whole night of it, a whole experience.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • People
  • Experience
  • Night

• When you see violence in movies in general, it's very quick and painless, which isn't what it's like.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Violence
  • Movies
  • See

• All you need is a bad angle and suddenly you're 30 pounds overweight.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • Bad
  • You
  • Need

• I love the feeling that you get when you can really laugh with a man and be natural and not always think that there's a sexual element going on. For me, flirting with a man means making fun of myself and trying to open myself and be very unpretentious.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Man
  • Feeling
  • Natural

• I've had this theory for a while, but I think there needs to be a message with the end of 'Game of Thrones.' You know? I think what needs to happen is ice and fire are going to go to war, a huge war between those two factions, and I think, in that war, they will destroy themselves. There will be complete chaos, complete destruction.

  

  Finn Jones
  • War
  • Game
  • Fire

• Harvard was the most intimidating experience. I felt so out of my league there.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Experience
  • Out
  • Harvard

• My dad is an English teacher, and my mom is a textiles artist. My parents made my sisters and me feel that if we wanted to pursue something creative, it could be done. They've always been supportive of everything from the beginning.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Done
  • Parents
  • Dad

• You can be aware of the passing of time without being nostalgic.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Time
  • You
  • Without

• I never played sports or got into the whole guy camaraderie of, like, 'I love you, man! Seniors forever!' So suddenly being in the military with these guys who were under these very heightened circumstances, isolated from their families, living this very kind of Greek lifestyle, it changed my life in a really big way.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Life
  • Way
  • Kind

• In Holland, we have a saying: 'A knife cuts on two sides.' With the rubber duck, I'm trying to show people what they haven't been seeing in their public space. When the rubber duck is there and when it's gone, you know.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
  • People
  • Trying
  • Space

• I would like to reconcile the church and the circus. I wanted to transform the theatre... to get my message across that there is only one God - the living man - the person sitting next to you. That is my religion. I believe that there is a sense to life.

  

  Oleg Kulik
  • Life
  • God
  • Believe

• If he'd just crowded me down to the side of the asphalt, I'd have been OK. But when he ran me completely off the racetrack, I lost it.

  

  Cale Yarborough
  • Lost
  • Completely
  • Racetrack

• You've got to stop dividing yourselves. You got to organize.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • You
  • Stop
  • Organize

• I've seen a big shift, especially in my classroom, with women standing up and demanding respect. That's in every woman, whether 16, 26, 56.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Up
  • Women
  • Respect

• At the earliest age, when I saw a 'wet paint' sign, I had to touch the paint to see if it was wet. When I get stopped at the stoplight in the middle of the night, and there's just no cars coming, and the light is red, I go. I don't think I'm putting anyone in harm's way, and I'll just take the consequences. Because I'm a Libertarian.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Age
  • Night
  • Light

• You gain and lose different things in different mediums or different sectors of different mediums. There are liberties you get on tiny indie films in terms of not having to be designed toward a marketing demographic.

  

  Anna Paquin
  • Different
  • Marketing

• I believe boycotts are wrong.

  

  Jan Brewer
  • Believe

• Why does every girl in the world wanna date me? Especially right now man, especially when I'm busy!

  

  Donald Glover
  • World
  • Men
  • Why

• At Tencent, we may be businessmen, but we are still chasing our IT, our science. We are still striving to create something really cool, trying to create things we couldn't even imagine without our new technologies. I am still clinging to this enthusiasm.

  

  Ma Huateng
  • Science
  • Enthusiasm
  • Technologies

• Improvement of one's economic position is helped more by cool persistence than by hot enthusiasm.

  

  William Feather
  • Improvement
  • Enthusiasm
  • Hot