William S. Knudsen Quotes

A big corporation is more or less blamed for being big; it is only big because it gives service. If it doesn’t give service, it gets small faster than it grew big.

William S. Knudsen

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• By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States?

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • You
  • Vote
  • Citizen

• The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Work
  • You
  • Events

• People don't just want a mindless flick with a superstar; they want to connect more deeply.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • People
  • Want
  • More

• Robots do not hold on to life. They can't. They have nothing to hold on with - no soul, no instinct. Grass has more will to live than they do.

  

  Karel Capek
  • Life
  • Live
  • Soul

• 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
  • Great
  • Happy
  • Easy

• It is faith that drives us to build, a belief that we cannot be limited by lack of nerve or airspace.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Faith
  • Belief
  • Build

• I sometimes get that wonderful sympathy between me and the audience, telling me I've reached their hearts. And when I do, the thrill is mine.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Audience
  • Wonderful
  • Hearts

• I never wanted to be a statistic. I never wanted to be that cat who tried and never made it.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Never
  • Cat
  • Tried

• For 25 years, it has been my privilege to represent the city of San Francisco and the great state of California; to work to strengthen our vibrant middle class; to secure opportunity and equality.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Work
  • Great
  • Opportunity

• I did model for a little while part-time, but I wasn't a bloody model, and I am definitely not that horrible thing 'model-turned-actress.'

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Time
  • Model
  • Actress

• I think what happens is you write how you grew up. And I was born on the prairie, and so everything is kind of spare on the prairie. And so I'm just used to writing in that way. 'Sarah, Plain and Tall' was that way. And most of my fiction is. I like writing small pieces. Somehow it just suits me.

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
  • Writing
  • Way
  • Born

• To equate a corporation with a person is a travesty of justice.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Justice
  • Person
  • Corporation

• As a reader, I'm often put off by authors and story-lines without families or children and all of the angst and joy they bring with them.

  

  C. J. Box
  • Children
  • Joy
  • Without

• I go to the airport and I've had everything taken away from me because of the terrorists. People haven't realized yet, though, that we are at war.

  

  Victoria Toensing
  • People
  • War
  • Realized

• 'Like I told you, I'm not a magician,' he says. 'If something isn't working, I don't try to guess.'

  

  Uri Geller

• A man is honorable in proportion to the personal risks he takes for his opinion.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Opinion

• If you still think me mad, you will think so no longer when I describe the wise precautions I took for the concealment of the body. The night waned, and I worked hastily, but in silence. First of all I dismembered the corpse. I cut off the head and the arms and the legs.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Night
  • Wise
  • Silence

• Her berth was of the wombe of morning dew, And her conception of the joyous Prime.

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Morning

• Obviously, the ultimate dream is to be married for life.

  

  Peter Andre
  • Life
  • Dream

• They're on you day and night. Their oversight is just too extreme [. . .] That's why our 10-year loan, we paid it back in three years. We couldn't stand the government. The bureaucracy kills you.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • Why
  • Night
  • Government

• Praying is simple. Use the words that you know. You don't have to be eloquent, just sincere and reverent.

  

  Oleta Adams
  • Words
  • Simple

• Thinking more of others’ happiness than of her own was very fine; but did it not mean giving up her very individuality, quenching all the warm love, the true desires, that made her herself? Yet in this deadness lay her only comfort; so it seemed.

  

  Elizabeth Gaskell
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • True

• We're gonna do it like George Foreman. We're gonna name all of our kids Mariah no matter if they're boys or girls. Mariah No. 1, Boy Mariah, Man Mariah, Tall Mariah. It's gonna be a house full of people named Mariah.

  

  Nick Cannon
  • People
  • Men
  • Kids

• A big corporation is more or less blamed for being big; it is only big because it gives service. If it doesn’t give service, it gets small faster than it grew big.

  

  William S. Knudsen
  • Giving
  • Bigs
  • Faster