Woody Guthrie (Woodrow Wilson Guthrie) Quotes

Some men rob you with a six-gun -- others rob you with a fountain pen.

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• My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Mind
  • Opinion
  • Strength

• You can tell a lot about a person just by watching their facial expressions. But there are times when it's best to hide your feelings, especially at work.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Work
  • Best
  • Feelings

• Our music has been an incredible gift to help us make a difference.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Music
  • Help
  • Gift

• The men and women who occupied the east coast of North America between 1607 and 1800 have been more closely scrutinized than any other collection of people in American history.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• If you want to conduct terror against Israelis, which is unacceptable, send fighters to do it. Don't send your women and children.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Women
  • Children
  • Want

• Life isn't always really glamorous and fabulous. It's about encouraging people to go back to natural beauty.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • People
  • Life
  • Beauty

• The doctor punched my vein, the captain called me Cain, upon my belly sat the sow of fear.

  

  Karl Shapiro
  • Fear
  • Doctor
  • Captain

• I have always considered it a beautiful metaphor that Cervantes had no fixed address in Spain. He is thus everywhere and nowhere. There are a number of sites connected with his life, but none attract hordes of travellers the way Stratford-upon-Avon and the Globe Theatre in London draw Shakespeare aficionados.

  

  Ilan Stavans
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • Theatre

• 'The woman is the subtlest beast in the garden,' said Papa Moose, 'now that snakes can’t talk.'

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Garden

• Hoy-day, what a sweep of vanity comes this way!

  

  Vanity

• In manufacturing, we try to stamp out variance. With people, variance is everything.

  

  Jack Welch
  • People

• Both parents’ rights must exist primarily to assist the parents in fulfilling their responsibilities. Primarily does not mean exclusively.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Parents

• Universities think people come up with great ideas by closing the door. The academic tenure process, where you have to publish to journals which are very narrow, stands in the way of great research.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• No one ever taught me, and I never had formal classes in pattern making, so I was like, Okay, I'll just drape, and I'll sew as I pin it.

  

  Alexander Wang

• There are big winners in Paul Ryan's 'Roadmap,' and you can guess who they are. He would cut taxes for the wealthy, completely eliminate the corporate income tax, and create a value added tax.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • Value

• I don't think I would have been great in the 17th century. I would have enjoyed the frocks, and certainly some of the food would have been appealing, but the disease and hygiene would have worried me.

  

  Peter Capaldi
  • Great
  • Food

• The countless number of influential figures in American history who are of Caribbean heritage indicates the need to set aside a designated time to celebrate their contribution to our country.

  

  Eliot Engel
  • Time
  • Country
  • American

• When it's low-budget, and you have one other person on the set, you have to make rules.

  

  Lena Dunham

• Don't let people disrespect you. My mom says don't open the door to the devil. Surround yourself with positive people.

  

  Cuba Gooding, Jr.
  • People
  • Mom
  • Positive

• The solving of almost every crime mystery depends on something which seems, at first glance, to bear no relation whatever to the original crime.

  

  Elsa Barker
  • Crime
  • Mystery
  • Relation

• I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Up
  • Bad
  • Funny

• Working 24 hours a day isn't enough anymore. You have to be willing to sacrifice everything to be successful, including your personal life, your family life, maybe more. If people think it's any less, they're wrong, and they will fail.

  

  Kevin O'Leary
  • People
  • Life
  • Family

• Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Worry
  • Strive
  • Recognition

• Some men rob you with a six-gun -- others rob you with a fountain pen.

  

  Woody Guthrie
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