William Lewis Safir (William Safire) Quotes
Why use a modifier to set straight a not-quite-right noun when the right noun is available?William Lewis Safir
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
Zachary Gordon -
One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
Eduardo Chillida -
So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category.
Caio Fonseca -
I really believe that when you're playing a character that everything is contained in the script. If I'm pulling from things from my own life, then I think I'm being disingenuous to the character and the story.
Walton Goggins -
I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.
J. B. Smoove -
The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
Samuel Johnson
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When I got a million subscribers, it just sort of snowballed from there because a lot more people show interest. They're like, 'Who's this? They've got a million subscribers; maybe I'll like their channel.'
Zoe Sugg -
My number one goal is to love, support and be there for my son.
Farrah Fawcett -
Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.
J. Paul Getty -
No offense to music - thank you for Entertainer of the Year and all that stuff. But if you're a father or a mother, there's nothing that beats being a parent, and that's the best time of my life right there.
Garth Brooks -
I actually wanted to first direct and produce, but then I got this very cool opportunity to be in front of the camera once.
Manish Dayal -
Your former Fathers the Spaniards have now no further Authority over you.
Zebulon Pike
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Look, all you can do when you find your niche is go with it.
Vincent D'Onofrio -
It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.
Pankaj Patel -
The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.
Jack Schwartz -
You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?
Fiona Apple -
My current companion, Gerard de Battista, is the father of my two sons.
Victoria Abril -
When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.
Bat for Lashes
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Presidential campaign and White House are two aggressively separate things. They still think I'm the weird kid in the corner, so I don't have much power. But I'll definitely do something to help.
Harper Reed -
I wanted to inspire every little girl who wants to be a dancer to fire their imagination about the joys of being on the stage.
Darcey Bussell -
Of course the playing is important but writing and the establishing of what you are going for is prime too.
Andy Summers The Police -
The writing that I have found to be most false is the writing that doesn't offer hope.
Jacqueline Woodson -
The people that I surround myself with now and my family, they are the key to my success.
Pablo Sandoval -
Why use a modifier to set straight a not-quite-right noun when the right noun is available?
William Lewis Safir