Charles Finch Quotes

The two things, love and snow, that make the world look fresh again

Charles Finch

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• Since I started playing at the Olympics in 2000, I have always wanted to do a dress based on Wonder Woman. It should be interesting to wear. And hopefully, it will get me a gold medal.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Interesting
  • Woman
  • Wonder

• I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I've learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Experience
  • Giving
  • Me

• The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true.

  

  Frances Farmer
  • School
  • True
  • Pretty

• We ended up realizing that's not an economical way to create creatures, putting people in green leotards and figuring it out later. You can maybe do that if you're making 'Avatar,' but we need to know what the creatures look like before we turn on the camera.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Up
  • Green

• If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Want
  • You
  • Yourself

• Life is so impermanent that it's not about somebody else or things around me, it's about knowing you are completely alone in this world and being content inside.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Life
  • World
  • Alone

• The most important thing that I've figured out is that things work out the way they're supposed to. We try to have all this control and fashion things the way we want, but everything happens for a reason, and in the end it works out the way it's supposed to.

  

  Randy Couture
  • Work
  • Important
  • Control

• I'm addicted to laughing. I go to see a lot of comedy shows. I'm addicted to playing really loud and obnoxious rock music in my car. I'm addicted to beautiful clothes and shoes. I just love gorgeous stuff and work hard to acquire pretty things, shiny things. I'm addicted to shiny things!

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Work
  • Music
  • Love

• You always gotta do what you like. If it connects, it's a miracle, but it happened with Die Antwoord.

  

  Yolandi Visser
  • You
  • Die
  • Always

• My grandfather was a cop in Long Island. I often try to draw on things that I've heard about him.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Long
  • Grandfather
  • Island

• And the hooded clouds, like friars,Tell their beads in drops of rain.

  

  Rain
  • Rain
  • Clouds

• Perhaps one of the few positive aspects of the coup is that it has discredited the claim that that that the state had been taken over by the Brotherhood under Morsi.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • Taken
  • Positive
  • Brotherhood

• The Grape that can with Logic absolute The Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute: The sovereign Alchemist that in a trice Life's leaden metal into Gold transmute:

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Life
  • Gold
  • Logic

• The tribunal here and your American newspapers talk so much about our sharp Nazi methods, but do you realize that within the past year, since the defeat of Germany, 1 million Germans have been evicted from what was originally German territory and which has now been given to Poland? No League of Nations or other body intervened.

  

  Alfred Rosenberg
  • American
  • Past
  • German

• If a thousand citizens were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Violence
  • Revolution
  • Innocent

• I went over to the Sargent, said, 'Sargent, you got a lot a damn gall to ask me if I've rehabilitated myself, I mean, I mean, I mean that just, I'm sitting here on the bench, I mean I'm sitting here on the Group W bench 'cause you want to know if I'm moral enough join the army, burn women, kids, houses and villages after being a litterbug.'

  

  Arlo Guthrie
  • Women
  • Kids
  • Moral

• I have always had a particular antagonism for the military.

  

  Donna Leon
  • Military

• I believe that through knowledge and discipline, financial peace is possible for all of us.

  

  Dave Ramsey
  • Believe
  • Knowledge
  • Peace

• There are some legitimate security issues, but I believe many of the objections the administration is making are not for security reasons, but to disguise mistakes that were made prior to Sept. 11.

  

  Bob Graham
  • Believe

• The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • People
  • Meetings
  • Procrastination

• As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.

  

  Naomi Shihab Nye
  • Life
  • World
  • Great

• Infectious diseases introduced with Europeans, like smallpox and measles, spread from one Indian tribe to another, far in advance of Europeans themselves, and killed an estimated 95% of the New World's Indian population.

  

  Jared Diamond
  • World

• People eat more when you give them a bigger container. Period.

  

  Brian Wansink
  • People
  • Eat
  • Container

• The two things, love and snow, that make the world look fresh again

  

  Charles Finch
  • World
  • Looks
  • Snow