William Steig Quotes
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My story is endless. I put in a teletype roll, you know, you know what they are, you have them in newspapers, and run it through there and fix the margins and just go, go - just go, go, go.
Jack Kerouac -
I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.
Parker Stevenson -
There's a critic that I love, Manohla Dargis of the 'L.A. Weekly.' I like the underground point of view; it's my old radical sympathies. Maybe I like her because she likes my movies.
Harold Ramis -
Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
Paracelsus -
The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.
Kate Capshaw -
In 2007, everything changed with the iPhone. As crippled as that first model now seems, with its lack of apps and glacial cellular connectivity, the iPhone was a practical, useful, self-contained computer a child could understand. It was an information appliance.
Walt Mossberg
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I've always dreamed of having an album. The problem is that it's just very difficult to make an album nowadays because through technology, music shifts so fast, especially electronic music. Once you make five songs, the first one you did is already old and you wished you would have put it out right away. So that's kind of the difficult part.
Anton Zaslavski -
I have to think of the positive; that's how I cope.
Ingrid Newkirk -
As more ad spending shifts online, the ability to have expertise and to innovate quickly will become critical.
Kara Swisher -
The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
What we want to do is put a price on greenhouse gases. Because if they're more expensive, businesses will find a way to be more efficient or switch to solar or hydro or wind power. So that will reduce emissions.
Ramez Naam -
How are we doing in the electronics field as opposed to, you know, we hear how advanced the Japanese are? Do you think we're still pretty competitive? Oh, yes.
Jack Kilby
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If I like a book, I tend to read the author's entire collection. But I choose mainly through personal recommendations, general word of mouth and book reviews.
Randa Abdel-Fattah -
I think of all the guys that strap a gun on their backs and head to Afghanistan and Iraq to keep us free and safe and maintain what America has stood for.
Foster Friess -
In his first 100 days, Mr. Obama has put the fate of his presidency in the hands of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. He may come to regret that decision.
Karl Rove -
I shall never ask any pilot to go on a mission that I won't go on.
Eddie Rickenbacker -
If you get a chance to be part of a Judd Apatow film, you just say yes.
Jack McBrayer -
I found it very easy to transform into creeps and weirdos and losers and goof-balls, and I'm happy to play eccentric kinds of characters, and I have a great affinity for the outsider, but I definitely am about expanding my range as well.
Rainn Wilson
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God is sovereign. His grace cannot be tamed.
R. Kent Hughes -
Our number one priority is to spend every peso possible to include those who are currently excluded.
Vicente Fox -
If, in schools, we keep teaching that history is divided into American history and Chinese history and Russian history and Australian history, we're teaching kids that they are divided into tribes. And we're failing to teach them that we also, as human beings, share problems that we need to work together with.
David Christian -
I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word 'love' frightens me.
Jules Verne -
Remember, 'Rome was not built in a day.' Instant success is never possible. Competence results only from sustained, consistent, self-disciplined effort over an extended period of time.
Bud Wilkinson -
Oh, Life, I am yours. Whatever it is you want of me, I am ready to give.
William Steig