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

• In the 70s and 80s, I made a good living. Have managed my funds carefully, will never have to go out and cadge quarters from the tourists.

  

  W. P. Kinsella
  • Good
  • Made
  • Quarters

• Angela Davis offers a cartography of engagement in oppositional social movements and unwavering commitment to justice.

  

  Chandra Talpade Mohanty
  • Justice
  • Commitment
  • Social

• I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Better
  • Persons

• My dad is an excellent grandfather. He loves kids. He loves to kiss them to death.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Kids
  • Death
  • Dad

• Preschoolers sound much brighter and more knowledgeable than they really are, which is why so many parents and grandparents are sosure their progeny are gifted and super-bright. Because children's questions sound so mature and sophisticated, we are tempted to answer them at a level of abstraction far beyond the child's level of comprehension. That is a temptation we should resist.

  

  David Elkind
  • Children
  • Why
  • Parents

• 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