William Standish Knowles Quotes

I was born in Taunton, Massachusetts on June 1, 1917, but I actually grew up in nearby New Bedford.

William Standish Knowles

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• I don't go to royal parties or play polo on horseback. No, I don't hang out with the posh crowd, if that makes sense.

  

  Sam Claflin
  • Play
  • Sense
  • Royal

• I had to have shoulder reconstruction.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Shoulder
  • Reconstruction

• I didn't consciously make the decision to write an adult novel. I didn't think of it as my riposte to the YA genre.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Think
  • Decision
  • Write

• Santorum is the greatest person on the face of the planet as far as I'm concerned.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Person
  • Face
  • Greatest

• I like Thomas Jefferson, though he intimidated me. I thought he would have been very tough to be around. I don't know if he had such a sense of humor.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • Thought
  • Humor
  • Tough

• What is it about summer that makes children grow? We feed and water them more. They do get more sun, but that probably doesn't matter as much as the book they read or the rule they broke that taught them something they couldn't have learned any other way.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Children
  • Book
  • Water

• When I began I thought that literature was contained within a bubble that somehow floated above the world commented upon by newspapers. But I became more and more interested in trying to include some of that world within my work.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • World
  • Work
  • Trying

• I think life would be so much funnier if every day you saw someone walking down the street getting hit in the head by a monkey, don't you?

  

  Harland Williams
  • Life
  • Day
  • Walking

• I am a big PETA supporter, and their East Coast headquarters is the Sam Simon building, and their West Coast headquarters is in the Bob Barker building.

  

  Sam Simon
  • Building
  • Supporter
  • PETA

• Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us - an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Work
  • God
  • Mind

• It's so important your customer can rely on you for your classics.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Important
  • You
  • Customer

• I feel like a mirror reflecting back everyone's perception of me.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Me
  • Mirror
  • Perception

• Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Children
  • Education
  • College

• I'd rather win two or three, lose one, win two or three more. I'm a great believer in things evening out. If you win a whole bunch in a row, somewhere along the line you're going to lose some too.

  

  Walt Alston
  • Great
  • Win
  • Three

• I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I'd vote for experience, honest experience.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Life
  • World
  • Different

• You hit 41 and you don't burn calories like you used to.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • You
  • Like
  • Burn

• I think it is important to let your kids have independence and ownership. Let your kids do what they have a passion for.

  

  Ted Ligety
  • Important
  • Kids
  • Think

• Obviously I try to make the best music that I can, but after about two years of making an album, you start to worry: 'Is it going to come out all right? Is it all going to sound churned out?'

  

  Kate Bush
  • Music
  • Best
  • Worry

• Look at what is broken in society, figure out how to make it better, and then, around that, formulate a business.

  

  Whitney Wolfe Herd
  • Business
  • Society
  • Better

• I love young adult fantasies. While I say that, I have not seen all of the Twilight and Harry Potter movies. But I've read all of the books, and I love them. I love them because I enjoy being transported to a different world and having my imagination challenged. That's a huge part of what we do as actors. We have to imagine ourselves in a different world. And when you are in a young adult fantasy, it challenges you in the best way.

  

  Viola Davis
  • World
  • Book
  • Imagination

• To be merry best becomes you; for, out of question, you were born in a merry hour.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Born
  • Hours
  • Merry

• Peter was filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the Word with boldness. Even when threatened with punishment, he said that he could not help but share the things he had seen and heard.

  

  David Jeremiah
  • Help
  • Share
  • Heard

• I was born in Taunton, Massachusetts on June 1, 1917, but I actually grew up in nearby New Bedford.

  

  William Standish Knowles
  • Born
  • Grew
  • June