William P. Young Quotes

when I live in you, then together we can live through everything that happens to you.

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• The experience of being in space didn't change my perspective of myself or of the planet or of life. I had no spiritual experience.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Change

• So long as you create laws that define women as victims, as creatures that demand protection, that need bodyguards, you are going to perpetuate the very worst of our sexist past.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Long
  • Women
  • Past

• Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • May
  • Society
  • Comedy

• I do think that tonal element of Trump's is attractive, but I don't know if I would go so far as to say the confrontational element of his rhetoric is necessarily attractive.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Think
  • Know
  • Trump

• Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Attitude
  • Excellence
  • Skill

• When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Pain
  • Boy
  • Dog

• I use a Bruce Lee technique: 'The way of no way.' He had the idea that he would learn everything, so that whoever he had to fight, he could improvise anything. The best way of starting a gig is just to not think of anything - to clear your mind, not in an empty Zen state, but more just to go on and see where you go.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Mind
  • Best
  • Fight

• When I arrived to study at Oxford in October 1963, the bohemian style was black plastic or leather jackets for women and black leather or navy donkey jackets for men. I stuck to cavalry twills and a duffle coat, at least for a few months.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Men
  • Women
  • Black

• My father was a sort of John Wayne Texan who'd worked as a cowboy when he was young. He'd participated in rattlesnake round-ups and swum with copperheads.

  

  Edmund White
  • Father
  • Young
  • Cowboy

• I'm an all-or-nothing person.

  

  Taylor Kitsch
  • Person

• I live in a bus and go from place to place and sometimes feel very detached from what's going on.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Live
  • Sometimes
  • Bus

• When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story.

  

  Aaron McGruder
  • Music
  • Important
  • News

• There's very few dork movies made by dorks.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Movies
  • Made
  • Very

• It's very frightening when you're told you have any form of the c-word, but because of early detection, they caught it before it had hardly begun. I'm completely cured and will go on to have a wonderful, fruitful life. I'll never die of prostate cancer.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Life
  • Die
  • Never

• It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • You
  • Simple
  • Faithful

• You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Fun
  • Journey
  • Enjoy

• I love art, being so close to the galleries, being by the water - and sunsets from the terrace.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Love
  • Art
  • Water

• You're blessed if you have the strength to work.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Work
  • Blessed
  • Strength

• Radical common sense is the wisdom gleaned from the past that recognizes the perishable opportunities of the moment. It is the willingness to admit error and the refusal to be deterred by failure.

  

  Marilyn Ferguson
  • Past
  • Wisdom
  • Failure

• Carol James, who is my physician's assistant and my right-hand person, frequently teases me by saying, 'It's because women need only half of their brain to think as well as men. That's why you can do this operation on so many women.'

  

  Ben Carson
  • Men
  • Women
  • Why

• I never know what I'm going to write next. If I'm still writing the book but I'm very near the end, and I begin to think of what I'd like to do next, then I'll know that what I'm writing is in hand. I'll think of an ending and it will be fine.

  

  Elmore Leonard
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Hand

• Who are you without your girls? I truly believe that. Who are you without the people who help you make sense of the misogyny, the racism, the economic struggle, all of it? You need those people saying you're a good mom, a great writer. You're a great dresser. You cook well. Whatever the beauty is that you need to hear.

  

  Jacqueline Woodson
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• I don't work a five-day week as a rule, and I've managed to fill that time up. It hasn't been that hard. I volunteer at school. I'm working because I love it. Yet, I don't not envy women who have a stay-at-home job, because you miss stuff.

  

  Deidre Hall
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• when I live in you, then together we can live through everything that happens to you.

  

  William P. Young
  • Together
  • Happens