William Rainey Harper Quotes
Set your sights not just on the next few weeks ... set your sights on the years ahead - because our vision will look that far ahead.
Quotes to Explore
-
I do always have a wall up. But I feel by doing it, I keep myself safe.
-
The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.
-
There were centuries when civilization had no theater.
-
I've learnt that it is important not to go over the top with aggression, because then either you are going to miss a lot of games, or you are not going to be concentrating on the game you are playing.
-
As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
-
I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.
-
'Moby-Dick' has a remarkable way of resonating with whatever is going on in the world at that particular moment.
-
For all their expertise at figuring out how things work, technical people are often painfully aware how much of human behavior is a mystery. People do things for unfathomable reasons. They are opaque even to themselves.
-
It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
-
In N.Y.C., I auditioned for mostly 'quirky friend' roles. Since casting directors in L.A. lacked a preconceived notion of me, I was able to reinvent my type a bit, which was essential in booking the role of Amanda on 'Ugly Betty.' I don't believe I would have auditioned for that role in N.Y.
-
I want to explore the world properly, to be able to write about and take pictures of all kinds of different cultures. Just be an explorer or adventurer. I also love extreme sports.
-
Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.
-
Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.
-
There are no innocent people in the Gaza Strip. Everyone has a connection to Hamas. Everyone receives a salary from Hamas. Those who are trying to challenge us at the border and breach it belong to Hamas’s military wing.
-
We have to build the spiritual world out of symbols taken from our own personality, as we build the scientific world out of the symbols of the mathematician.
-
No autocracy can lead people to believe that they are living in harmony and happiness.
-
The two questions I always ask myself are 'What if' and 'Why not?
-
Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the coaching staff, the same rule applies.
-
Mistakes show us what we need to learn.
-
Sometimes I have visions of myself driving through hell, selling sulphur and brimstone, or through heaven peddling refreshments to the roaming souls. If me and the children I've got left could find a place where there's no shooting, I wouldn't mind a few years of peace and quiet.
-
I can tell you the actor who I admire the most. Billy Crudup. Do you know who he is? He's awesome.
-
My Life in CIA is the first time that I've ever written a story in my own name.
-
The great American food writer M. F. K. Fisher once wrote an essay called 'The Anatomy of a Recipe.' To have a good anatomy, in her view, a recipe should have a sense of logical progression. She despaired of recipes with 'anatomical faults,' where the reader is told to make a cake batter and only then to grease the loaf pans.
-
Set your sights not just on the next few weeks ... set your sights on the years ahead - because our vision will look that far ahead.
