Rick Atkinson Quotes

If I've vividly laid out the narrative, the reader will come to his own conclusions.

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• I don't know how to cook, but I do know how to bake.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Know
  • Cook
  • How

• I am not a methodical singer. I don't follow any process or rules; what I follow is just my heart - whatever I experience, I just write and then compose it.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Heart
  • Process
  • Rules

• If you come to a fork in the road, take it.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • You
  • Road
  • Take

• I see a 16-year-old now, and to ask her to take her clothes off would feel really weird. But they were like, 'If you don't do it, then we're not going to book you again.' So I'd lock myself in the toilet and cry and then come out and do it. I never felt very comfortable about it. There's a lot of boobs. I hated my boobs! Because I was flat-chested.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Book
  • Myself
  • Weird

• I was married a few times, and one of my husbands was jealous of me writing.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Writing
  • Married
  • Jealous

• I know there are certain gifts that each of us have. The gifts you don't have to worry about so much, because God gave them to us. It's the living, it's the life, it's the now.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Life
  • God
  • Worry

• Every man stamps his value on himself. The price we challenge for ourselves is given us by others. -Man is made great or little by his own will.

  

  Harold B. Lee
  • Great
  • Value
  • Challenge

• The mere fact of having a Security Council meeting at ministerial level will send out a very sharp message indeed to the Syrians.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Message
  • Security Council
  • Ministerial

• Whenever I’m asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Writing
  • Why
  • Writers

• There are times when even the best manager is like the little boy with the big dog, waiting to see where the dog wants to go so he can take him there.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • Waiting
  • Boy
  • Dog

• But at my back from time to time I hear The sound of horns and motors, which shall bring Sweeney to Mrs. Porter in the spring. O the moon shone bright on Mrs. Porter And on her daughter They wash their feet in soda water.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Time
  • Water
  • Daughter

• If individuals can be born again, why can't cities, made up of many individuals, be born again?

  

  C. Wagner
  • Up
  • Why
  • Individual

• In England it is enough for a man to try and produce any serious, beautiful work to lose all his rights as a citizen.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Work
  • Beautiful
  • Serious

• I am sure care's an enemy to life.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Life
  • Care
  • Enemy

• I think the educational value is what comes first. I've always thought that the most effective tools we have for disseminating information, i.e. education, is television and film.

  

  Morgan Freeman
  • Film
  • Information
  • Tools

• The narrow slit through which the scientist, if he wants to be successful, must view nature constructs, if this goes on for a long time, his entire character; and, more often than not, he ends up becoming what the German language so appropriately calls a Fachidiot (professional idiot).

  

  Erwin Chargaff
  • Character
  • Language
  • German

• But it is impossible, I find, to tidy books without ending by sitting on the floor in the middle of a great untidiness and reading.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Reading
  • Books
  • Impossible

• If you don't have confidence in the diagnosis, you won't have confidence in the prescription.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Confidence
  • Diagnosis
  • Prescriptions

• If I've vividly laid out the narrative, the reader will come to his own conclusions.

  

  Rick Atkinson
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