William McFee Quotes
One must choose between obscurity with efficiency, and fame with its inevitable collateral of bluff.William McFee
Quotes to Explore
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You don't have to be something to do something.
Gavin Newsom -
The willingness and ability to live fully in the now eludes many people. While eating your appetizer, don't be concerned with dessert.
Wayne Dyer -
When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
Carl Sandburg -
I'm having a good time. Managing my things takes a lot of time.
Gabriela Sabatini -
Death remains about the one certain fact in the lives of each one of us, and there will be suffering, sorrow, and sadness next week as there was last week.
Basil Hume -
A big thing that gets people in trouble in the kitchen is not reading the recipe from start to finish before you cook it. Before you start anything, read through the entire recipe once.
Gail Simmons
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I think if you're everyone's cup of tea, that probably means you're a little bit boring, or you're not pushing yourself. Creativity happens where it's dangerous and scary: where you're not comfortable.
Kacey Musgraves -
It's ironic that the growth of Scottish nationalism has precipitated in the English the sort of hand-wringing the Scots have always done over who they are.
Irvine Welsh -
I saw an interview that I did with someone, and I was horrified by it. And I said to my wife, 'This is unbearable how I talk.'
Mandy Patinkin -
Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.
Iain Banks -
I've been fortunate to be working mostly right out of school. Every year, there was a little something, and it kept the confidence going. It's about confidence and the belief.
Oscar Isaac -
At Oracle, silver medal is first loser.
Safra A. Catz
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I was trying to take the band in a direction that I thought was appropriate, and Roth was trying to take the band in more of a Las Vegas direction. And there he is.
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen -
A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
H. L. Mencken -
I'm a fast learner. I may not run as fast as I used to, but I think I still learn as fast.
Carl Lewis -
My earlier exposure to physics certainly helped me in the use of biophysical techniques like crystallography, the use of computing, calculations, etc.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan -
I remember having this friend in school who said she didn't like the Beach Boys. And in that moment I knew we couldn't be friends anymore.
Zooey Deschanel -
While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.
Karl Marx
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It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes.
Orson Scott Card -
Most young people make films to be accepted, to be discovered, when in fact that was the last idea with the group I went to film school with. To be discovered was not our intention. Our intention was to tell our story our way, and make our own mistakes and learn from film to film.
Haile Gerima -
Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.
Emile Zola -
Technically a memoir, 'The Woman Warrior' becomes almost magical through its inclusion of folk tales, dreams, and revisions.
Karen Joy Fowler -
By worrying as little as possible about fame.
Diogenes -
One must choose between obscurity with efficiency, and fame with its inevitable collateral of bluff.
William McFee