William McDonough Quotes

We realized we don't have an invention, that's why we gave it away.

William McDonough

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• You could pack for a trip to Europe with the bags under my eyes!

  

  Natalie Morales
  • You
  • Eyes
  • Europe

• The world is being run by irresponsible spoiled brats.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • World
  • Run
  • Spoiled

• As far as playing, I didn't care who guarded me - red, yellow, black. I just didn't want a white guy guarding me, because it's disrespect to my game.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Guy
  • Game
  • Black

• I never thought I'd get a chance to sing with Wilson Pickett but we did.

  

  Eddie Floyd
  • Never
  • Thought
  • Chance

• It's depressing and scary, but he needs to know the world around him because he's fourteen now and in two years he's going to drive. He needs to know what goes on out in the world. I'm not going to always be there.

  

  Jami Gertz
  • World
  • Scary

• Our culture encourages women to nurture men, making it predictable that many experience a seductive empathy for abusive men, as well as the misguided hope that love can obliterate an ugly past.

  

  Leslie Morgan Steiner
  • Men
  • Women
  • Experience

• Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Love
  • Better
  • Dreamed

• To relinquish a present good through apprehension of a future evil is in most instances unwise ... from a fear which may afterwards turn out groundless, you lost the good that lay within your grasp.

  

  Francesco Guicciardini
  • Good
  • May
  • Future

• Which came first, the phoenix or the flame?” "...I think the answer is that a circle has no beginning." "Well reasoned.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Thinking
  • Beginning
  • Circles

• Everyone happens for a reason, learn it and move on. Don't be bitter about what happened, be happy about what will

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Happy
  • Bitter

• You don't use mayonnaise, why? ... Are you addicted to mayonnaise? Is it okay if I use mayonnaise? I could go outside.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Okay
  • Mayonnaise

• And we could have all this,' she said. 'And we could have everything and every day we make it more impossible.' 'What did you say?' 'I said we could have everything.' 'We can have everything.' 'No, we can't.' 'We can have the whole world.' 'No, we can't.' 'We can go everywhere.' 'No, we can't. It isn't ours anymore.' 'It's ours.' 'No, it isn't. And once they take it away, you never get it back.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • World
  • Said
  • Impossible

• Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold; stir more than they can quiet; fly to the end, without consideration of the means and degrees; pursue some few principles, which they have chanced upon absurdly; care not to innovate, which draws unknown inconveniences; use extreme remedies at first; and, that which doubleth all errors, will not acknowledge or retract them; like an unready horse, that will neither stop nor turn.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Acknowledge
  • Consideration
  • Remedies

• Age is just a number, maturity is a choice.

  

  Harry Styles One Direction
  • Choice
  • Maturity
  • Number

• Go, write it in a martial hand; be curst and brief; it is no matter how witty, so it be eloquent and fun of invention: taunt him with the licence of ink: if thou thou'st him some thrice, it shall not be amiss; and as many lies as will lie in thy shee.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Writing
  • Fun
  • Lying

• We realized we don't have an invention, that's why we gave it away.

  

  William McDonough
  • Invention