William Morris Quotes

A good way to rid one's self of a sense of discomfort is to do something. That uneasy, dissatisfied feeling is actual force vibrating out of order; it may be turned to practical account by giving proper expression to its creative character.

William Morris

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• When I go a stretch without tweeting, I will occasionally get an email from my mom, checking in. I always find this amusing but also gratifying: Thanks to Twitter, I can keep in touch with my parents and let them in on what I'm doing in a way that even the regular phone calls of a doting daughter can't do.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Parents
  • Mom
  • Daughter

• I completely get the drag thing.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Thing
  • Get
  • Drag

• 'What's My Line' 1971 was a magical experience as I was still in my teens, and it was my first appearance. You know how they say you never forget 'your first'!

  

  Randy West
  • Experience
  • Never Forget

• Unfortunately, music devolved instead of evolved. The music business got into the hands of lawyers and accountants rather than the entrepreneurial creative people, and that's when the beginning of the end started. It's all based on money instead of art and creativity.

  

  Gary Wright
  • People
  • Music
  • Money

• My music does say a lot about me and what I went through. All the songs are about things I have gone through and what I am thinking. I wrote about my family, friends and boys, of course, and about life.

  

  Lalaine Vergara-Paras
  • Life
  • Music
  • Thinking

• There's nothing bloody wrong with wanting it at all.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Nothing
  • Wrong
  • Wanting

• I think the biggest change has been realizing I now have three children.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Children
  • Think
  • Change

• New Mexico is the second Hollywood. No, it is, it is. They built all sorts of film studios.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Film
  • New
  • Hollywood

• What would ultimately de-escalate the challenges of society would be for people to get educated, especially for more women to be educated because when more women are educated, they invest much more of their time and income in ensuring that the next generation would perform even more than they have done.

  

  Obiageli Ezekwesili
  • People
  • Time
  • Women

• It's absolutely true that unless you can instill discipline upon yourself, you will never be able to lead others.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • True
  • Yourself
  • Discipline

• Whoso walketh in solitude, And inhabiteth the wood, Choosing light, wave, rock, and bird, Before the money-loving herd, Into that forester shall pass From these companions power and grace.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Money
  • Power
  • Light

• Because in big and diverse societies like ours, progress ultimately depends on something more basic, and that is how we see each other. And we know from experience what makes nations strong. And Neha I think did a great job of describing the essence of what’s important here. We are strongest when we see the inherent dignity in every human being.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Great
  • Important
  • Job

• I was responsible to no one, I had no need mumble excuses or lies. I would become someone else and my metamorphosis would be so complete that no one I’d met over the past fifteen years would be able to recognize me. (116)

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Past
  • Lies
  • Excuses

• I hope to represent the people of the United States, not the president.

  

  Lindsey Vonn
  • People
  • Hope

• I wasn't the biggest hip-hop fan, because I had to listen to whatever my parents listened to, so growing up, it was a lot of Dolly Parton, Elvis, and Whitney Houston. When they finally put a TV in my room and I got to listen to MTV Jams I was like: 'Here I am!'

  

  Karen Civil
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Growing

• You want to close the income inequality gap in part? Give us better educated kids out of high school. Give us kids that can challenge and succeed in the challenge with technology. You give us those kinds of kids, and watch the needle move.

  

  Kenneth Langone
  • School
  • Kids
  • High

• A bit of perspective and life experience isn't a bad thing.

  

  Gail Honeyman
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Bad

• One of the first studies in the field of gender and language, by Don H. Zimmerman and Candace West in 1975, found that in casual conversations between women and men, women were interrupted far more often.

  

  Deborah Tannen
  • Men
  • Women

• I've just always had a personal fascination with the myth of Abraham Lincoln. And once you start to read about him and the Civil War and everything leading up to the Civil War, you start to understand that the myth is created when we think we understand a character and we reduce him to a kind of cultural national stereotype.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • Myth
  • Fascination
  • Abraham Lincoln

• Flashback in film rarely works.

  

  Susan Hill
  • Film
  • Works
  • Flashback

• Any article's good. Long as it's publicity, I think that's all that matters. I think it's advancement for my career.

  

  Brian Wilson
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Long

• Whatever I'm working on, the character I'm playing tends to slowly bleed into my own real life. Not in any kind of creepy, Method actor-y kind of way - it's just an innate kind of merging.

  

  Paul Rudd
  • Life
  • Real
  • Character

• A good way to rid one's self of a sense of discomfort is to do something. That uneasy, dissatisfied feeling is actual force vibrating out of order; it may be turned to practical account by giving proper expression to its creative character.

  

  William Morris