William Feather Quotes

[on education] It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know, and it's knowing how to use the information once you get it.

William Feather

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• So basically, I think music at its best can be everything. It can be totally stupid and very intellectual and emotional at the same time. I don't think all those things shut each other out.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Time
  • Music
  • Best

• I do not support a North American Union. I disagree fundamentally with that, and I think the United States should be governing itself and not being governed by multilateral unions, the United Nations.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • American
  • Think
  • Support

• When I first started out as a young journalist, I know that on at least two occasions, when I walked into a newsroom, I knew I was replacing the black person in that job.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Job
  • Black
  • Know

• I'm really silly. That's the thing that people don't get.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • People
  • Silly
  • Get

• In most horror films, you don't really get to understand why this character is the way he is.

  

  Barry Watson
  • Why
  • Character
  • You

• It is certainly true that writers take a stance at some variance from organized religion. This has not always been true. But since the romantic movement - and I'm referring now exclusively to poetry - the emphasis has been on the individual imagination defined against, rather than in terms of, any orthodoxy.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • True
  • Imagination
  • Poetry

• Kids don't hesitate to ask questions. And it's a great honor to have the kids say, 'Your books have made me trust you.'

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Great
  • Kids
  • Trust

• Armenians and Azerbaijanis in Stepanakert, capital of the Nagorno-Karabakh autonomous region, rioted over much needed spelling reform in the Soviet Union.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Riot
  • Armenians
  • Azerbaijanis

• You know, the way I'm accepted, I almost feel like Judy Garland, truly. It makes no sense to me because I don't think that I've been any more outspoken... Or maybe I have, I don't know. But everyone I know supports anything that has to do with raising money or with AIDS.

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Money

• Like any good spy novel, the Cox Report alleges that Chinese spies penetrated four U.S. weapons research labs and stole important information on seven nuclear warhead designs.

  

  Charles Bass
  • Good
  • Important
  • Chinese

• When I was a prosecutor in Kansas City, my job was to fight for justice and safety for all citizens in my community. Equal access to justice under the law is an American value embedded in the fabric of our legal and political system - the idea that anybody, powerful or not, can have their day in court.

  

  Claire McCaskill
  • Job
  • American
  • Political

• At the moment I'm enjoying a new challenge at the Royal Opera House, but I'm also keen to pursue my interest in television and particularly in science.

  

  Deborah Bull
  • House
  • Science
  • Challenge

• I just think that with music, it's kind of like life, and so the people you work with, you generally develop a relationship. You don't have to try to explain things. You just know. It's like you're in the band together and striving for the same goal.

  

  Ariel Rechtshaid
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• I've always been into 'fast-paced, don't bore 'em, keep it moving along, stick with the story.' You know: tell a story the way I want to hear a story. I find it more rewarding to write for kids, but I also find it a little easier, because you can just let loose a little bit more in terms of fantasy and stuff.

  

  James Patterson
  • Kids
  • Moving

• I'm open to working anywhere, but not on anything.

  

  Christoph Waltz

• I like the encouragement I get from doing new things. I like to feel scared or challenged in the hope that I can pull it off. That little bit of fear creates an energy that I can channel into the performance.

  

  Joanne Whalley
  • Hope
  • Fear
  • Energy

• Fame put a lot of pressure on me in the Eighties and early Nineties - and I'm glad that I had the kind of makeup where I could come through it alive, keep myself in hand.

  

  Ann Wilson Heart
  • Hand
  • Makeup

• I'm not worried about misconception or a perception that's bad. If I were, I'd be chasing something all the time.

  

  Elisabeth Hasselbeck
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Perception

• What goes too long unchanged destroys itself.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Long

• Those men that in their writings are most wise Own nothing but their blind, stupefied hearts.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Writing
  • Heart
  • Wisdom

• I am not a preacher. I don't want to stand on a soapbox and tell people, "Don't drink. Don't use drugs." With my kids, I say "Don't drink. Don't do drugs." But when they turn 21, they can drink. I hope they never use drugs, but people make their own decisions. When they're old enough, they are going to have the chance to make their own decisions. I just hope I have given them enough love and support, and the ability to come and talk to me if they need to.

  

  Nikki Sixx Mötley Crüe
  • Support
  • Decisions
  • Drugs

• [on education] It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know, and it's knowing how to use the information once you get it.

  

  William Feather