Alex Faickney Osborn Quotes

As in the piling up of hypothetical alternatives, creative accidents follow the law of probabilities the more we fish, the more likely we are to get a strike.

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• I finally moved out of my parent's house. It was only fair to let my sister have her own room.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • House
  • Sister
  • Parent

• I'm not going to roll back anything. Nothing is going to change with respect to reproductive rights.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Change
  • Respect
  • Rights

• Everybody needs money, but I'm a fighter. For what I make, I'm happy with what I make. The money is not everything; it's about honor.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Money
  • Happy
  • Honor

• In many, many parts of the world, being a female, you're really just wallpaper. If you take care to blend in, no one would think in a thousand years that you were doing anything suspicious.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • World
  • Think
  • Care

• Writing for children hadn't occurred to me when I was younger, but nine years of teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with 10 or 11 years of experience as human beings.

  

  Zilpha Keatley Snyder
  • Writing
  • Children
  • Experience

• My father's music has always inspired me in many ways... especially to be better at what I do.

  

  Nadia Bjorlin
  • Music
  • Father
  • Me

• In grownups, mercury can cause memory loss, tremors, vision loss and numbness of the fingers and toes. It can also adversely affect fertility and blood pressure regulation, and a growing body of evidence suggests that exposure to mercury may lead to heart disease.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Heart
  • May
  • Growing

• I have been fortunate that publications like the 'New York Times' and 'The Wall Street Journal' have allowed me to share some of my opinions with a wider audience.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Me
  • Wall
  • New York

• Gods always behave like the people who make them.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • People
  • Like
  • Always

• Sorry, no, I'm never satisfied with my drumming.

  

  Pat Mastelotto Mr. Mister
  • Never
  • Sorry
  • Satisfied

• Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them. If you allow yourself to be somewhat curious - and if you get into the habit of doing that - it's the first step to being open minded and realizing that your points of view aren't totally opposite.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Effort
  • Yourself

• Sports should not become routine. It should be about passion.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Passion
  • Sports
  • Routine

• I've been an actress for years, and I've worked with one female director. Statistically it's less than 7% or 12% - I mean, it's low, not representative. So, hopefully, more women will be given opportunities to direct, or create opportunities to direct themselves.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Women
  • Years
  • Opportunities

• I don't think that the Grammys are in any way a just way of grading music.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Music
  • Think
  • Way

• Yeah, I don't necessarily like endings that contrive an artificial moment of completion.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Like
  • Moment
  • Completion

• I like singing all songs, really, but I find that writing social commentary comes naturally.

  

  Damian Marley
  • Writing
  • Singing
  • Find

• Many traditions date the existence of angels and demons from a remote period before the creation of the world, but some connect the fall of Satan and his host with the creation of man.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • World
  • Man
  • Fall

• China's own recent history proves that when it opens itself, there is nothing its people cannot accomplish. A more open China will lead to a more prosperous and stable China. That's good for China, the United States and, indeed, the entire world.

  

  Gary Locke
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• I'll tell you what the public likes more than anything, it's the most rare commodity in the world - honesty.

  

  Merle Haggard
  • World
  • Honesty
  • Likes

• I am partly to blame for the decking boom, and I am sorry, I know it?s everywhere these days.

  

  Alan Titchmarsh
  • Blame
  • Days
  • Everywhere

• It is true that all men are created in the image of God, but Christians are supposed to be conscious of that fact, and being conscious of it should recognize the importance of living artistically, aesthetically, and creatively, as creative creatures of the Creator. If we have been created in the image of an Artist, then we should look for expressions of artistry, and be sensitive to beauty, responsive to what has been created for us

  

  Edith Schaeffer
  • God
  • Men
  • True

• The truth is that no matter how many retakes you do, each will be different and that is the nature of any creative medium. There's no such thing as perfection.

  

  Aamir Khan
  • Different
  • Truth
  • Nature

• As in the piling up of hypothetical alternatives, creative accidents follow the law of probabilities the more we fish, the more likely we are to get a strike.

  

  Alex Faickney Osborn
  • Creative
  • Follow
  • Accidents