William Ross Wallace Quotes

The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.

William Ross Wallace

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• The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • World
  • American
  • Dream

• So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • Age
  • Picture
  • Learn

• Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness - and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Work
  • Speak
  • Yourself

• I hear so many writers say - and these are writers that I trust completely - 'I just started hearing a voice', or, 'The characters came to life'. I am filled with loathing for my own characters when I hear that because they do nothing of the sort. Left to their own devices, they do nothing but drink coffee and complain about their lives.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • Life
  • Trust
  • Coffee

• For new bands, I think a major label is the safest place to be. Independent labels are the ones getting away with murder. A lot of them are hobbyists who rip-off young bands, taking advantage of people who would never get signed to a major.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • People
  • Think
  • Independent

• She going to be free now. She can go home to Jesus.Call me selfish, but I wanted her to go home with me.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Home
  • She
  • Free

• Wherever the enemy goes let our troops go also.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Enemy

• When I said, 'I feel like everything I tried to do is there', it is less because of what I did than it is a case of Michael keeping his word. Sometimes he'd launch into a discourse, a convoluted discourse about something or other, and I had no idea what he was saying. I'd tease him about it, 'What on earth are you talking about?'

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Earth

• The troubles which have come upon us always seem more serious than those which are only threatening.

  

  Livy
  • Serious

• Despite the unquestionable greatness of the Anglo-Saxon genius, it is impossible not to see that the laws of revolutions are least understood precisely in the Anglo-Saxon countries.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Greatness

• For so long Versace couture was identified with celebrities and music, which I love. But at the same time it could overwhelm the clothes.

  

  Donatella Versace
  • Time
  • Music
  • Long

• I was completely shocked that Prince would even know my name.

  

  Rita Ora
  • Prince

• The most cowardly thing in the world is blaming mistakes upon the umpires. Too many managers strut around on the field trying to manage the umpires instead of their teams.

  

  Bill Klem
  • World
  • Trying

• The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all directions.

  

  Chanakya
  • Wind

• Everybody believes that capital punishment is wrong, but when they look at certain cases, they're quick to say, 'Put them to death,' or scream 'capital punishment.'

  

  Jeff Lindsay
  • Death

• One thing my mom taught me was that when you're making deviled eggs, flip the eggs over the night before. They've been sitting in the carton as they're transported, so the yolks settle on bottom. If you flip them, then the yolks aren't skewed to one side.

  

  Trisha Yearwood
  • Night
  • Mom

• I'm against the draft. I believe we should have a professional military; it might be smaller, but it would be more effective.

  

  Jesse Ventura
  • Believe
  • Military
  • Professional

• My students are noticed by the people I respect from the quality of their work.

  

  Louise Wilson
  • People
  • Work
  • Respect

• Who doesn't desire his fathers death?

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Desire
  • Father's Death

• Hope is the crystal meth of emotions. It hooks you fast and kills you hard.

  

  Jennifer Donnelly
  • Hope
  • Emotions
  • Crystal

• At school I was always taller than the rest of my class, and because I was an only child, I was comfortable with adults but shy and awkward with other kids. I was quiet, bookish, and in spite of my size, hopeless at sports. In short, I was different. And even in the earliest grades, I got pounded for it.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Different
  • School
  • Kids

• You can have a knack for dancing, but you still have to practice till your feet are bleeding to be worthy of being in front of an audience.

  

  Bronson Pinchot
  • Practice

• Out of sheer stubbornness, I just would keep going - just hoping that at some point something would click. I certainly held onto the hope that it might. I had no guarantees, but I trusted that if I worked hard and put in the time, it would eventually reap a fruit. I just didn't know what that fruit was going to be or how big it was going to be.

  

  R.A. Dickey
  • Time
  • Hope

• The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.

  

  William Ross Wallace
  • World
  • Rocks
  • Cradle