William Feather Quotes

Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.

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• Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Sexuality
  • Seduction

• There's always elements of danger in New York, but people are always out on the street. I don't feel scared there at all.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • People
  • New York
  • Street

• When I was nine years old, my family lost our home, and the six of us moved into my grandparents' converted garage.

  

  Becky G
  • Family
  • Home
  • Lost

• I freakin' hate Twitter, man. I honestly don't understand the purpose of it.

  

  Landon Liboiron
  • Man
  • Hate
  • Purpose

• A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Work
  • May
  • You

• It's a touchy subject, but as a Southerner, you can't ignore our history any more than a Renaissance painter can ignore the Virgin Mary. And it's impossible to drive down a road or eat a vegetable or pass a church without being reminded of slavery.

  

  Sally Mann
  • History
  • Church
  • Road

• When I was young, no one got married. Now, all the young people, they want to get married, they want security. Now that my children's friends are getting married, I go to more weddings than I ever did when I was young.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Children
  • Friends

• I want to live in a place where strangers rush to help someone in distress.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Live
  • Help
  • Want

• If we cling to the institution of Islam, then we tend to defend it against whatever we see as a danger to it, so because of this we see now that many people are defending states, defending territories, defending everything institutional in the belief that they defend Islam.

  

  Abdurrahman Wahid
  • People
  • Belief
  • Islam

• While I was boxing professionally, I never thought about my looks. The furthest thing from my mind was 'messing up my pretty face' when I was on my way to the ring to meet my opponent. Yet, people I'd meet along the way would always ask me if I was worried about my looks. Then they would go on to say that I was 'too pretty to box.'

  

  Laila Ali
  • People
  • Up
  • Mind

• I would like to be where Diana Rigg or Judi Dench is, but I expect it is as good as it is going to get.

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • Good
  • Like
  • Expect

• Prioritizing spending and maximizing the effectiveness of taxpayer dollars is absolutely essential. We must draw the line, realigning programs when necessary and also eliminating failed programs.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Dollars
  • Line
  • Effectiveness

• Acting found me. I thought maybe I should try to find it again. We'll see.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Thought
  • Acting
  • See

• All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • History
  • Scary
  • Gossip

• And as an American colleague said to me several months ago, he said, 'I think the challenge in Jordan - and, again, this is for the rest of the Middle East - we need to define what center is. And once we can define what center is to a Jordanian, then we can decide what's left and what's right of that.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • American
  • Think
  • Rest

• There are many challenges, there are many obstacles; let us try to change the obstacles to advantages.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • Change
  • Try
  • Obstacles

• I just like music that sounds like music. Not like machines and computers and things that you design to make things sound slick and perfect.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Music
  • Perfect
  • Design

• With 'Trainwreck,' because it wasn't live and we could do more takes, I feel like we broke a lot.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Live
  • Feel
  • Broke

• Live in the moment, this moment, your moment. That is by far and without meaningful rival The Best Position to put yourself in to discover and delight in who your children turn out to be, whoever they turn out to be.

  

  Carolyn Hax
  • Children
  • Moments
  • Meaningful

• I was lucky enough to be able to grow and mature in a natural way as an actress.

  

  Kate Burton
  • Lucky
  • Grow
  • Mature

• Most writers do similar things in their minds. It's how the mind works, basically.

  

  Raymond Pettibon Black Flag
  • Mind

• The very natural tendency to use terms derived from traditional grammar like verb, noun, adjective, passive voice, in describing languages outside of Indo-European is fraught with grave possibilities of misunderstanding.

  

  Benjamin Lee Whorf
  • Possibilities
  • Grammar
  • Verbs

• Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.

  

  William Feather
  • Principles
  • Grandfather
  • Grandparent