William Kittredge Quotes

We live in stories. What we are is stories. We do things because of what is called character, and our character is formed by the stories we learn to live in.

William Kittredge

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• There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Time
  • Never
  • Word

• I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Will
  • Conquered

• In so far as such a theory is empirically correct it will also tell us what empirical facts it should be possible to observe in a given set of circumstances.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Facts
  • Circumstances
  • Will

• I learned about the market's power when I was traded to the Buffalo Bills for $100.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Power
  • Learned
  • Market

• Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Life
  • Long
  • Trouble

• Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD. All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • You
  • Light
  • Expectations

• I have a very pragmatic approach to diets. Ones you can't stick to don't do you any good. Some people say, 'Just eat half of what's on your plate,' but I can't do that!

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Good
  • People Say

• I started out as a dancer as a kid; I've been dancing since I was 4. So, performing was always part of what I was. I don't know if it I enjoyed the response I got from people or if I liked having an audience, but there's something in me that wanted to perform.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • People
  • Audience
  • Kid

• One of the major goals of health insurance reform is to bring down the cost.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Health
  • Goals
  • Down

• There's many women now who think, 'Surely we don't need feminism anymore, we're all liberated and society's accepting us as we are'. Which is just hogwash. It's not true at all.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Women
  • True
  • Think

• 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 am grateful to theatre for making me what I am today. But it's not like theatre is my first love. I am equally attached to cinema, which is, actually, a child of theatre, since it borrows heavily from it.

  

  Om Puri
  • Child
  • Theatre
  • Grateful

• I have to be careful what I eat before going onstage, to avoid an upset stomach.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Before
  • Upset
  • Be Careful

• When in doubt, do it.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Doubt
  • When In Doubt

• We had a tiny budget for 'The Greatest,' which was the opposite of 'Wall Street.' We just kind of went in and did it. You've got four or five takes and then you've got to move on. We didn't even have trailers to stay in or anything.

  

  Carey Mulligan
  • Kind
  • Wall
  • Greatest

• 'Theogony' should be read before the great Homeric epics because it gives an account of the cosmology that is taken for granted by Homer. It does for paganism what the Old Testament attempted to do for monotheism.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Great
  • Taken
  • Old

• I know that a lot of people take inspiration from the fact that I was just a common man with no film background who turned into a star.

  

  Uday Kiran
  • Star
  • Film
  • Inspiration

• The most underused, under-appreciated group of people in the world is our youth.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • People
  • World
  • Youth

• There's this idea that Hollywood sells over and over again: 'If I just looked more like this, I'd be accepted.'

  

  Marti Noxon

• If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Heaven

• She stood before him and surrendered herself to him and sky, forest, and brook all came toward him in new and resplendent colors, belonged to him, and spoke to him in his own language. And instead of merely winning a woman he embraced the entire world and every star in heaven glowed within him and sparkled with joy in his soul. He had loved and had found himself. But most people love to lose themselves.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Soul
  • Joy
  • Heaven

• Friends and family do not believe you write fiction. They truly believe that every word you write is either autobiographical or based on them. I once had a character say that she never wanted to be invited to another children's birthday party, and I never received another children's birthday party invitation ever again.

  

  Liane Moriarty
  • Believe
  • Children
  • Family

• We all have ambitions, but only the few achieve. A man thinks of a good thing and says: 'Now if I only had the money I'd put that through.' The word 'if' was a dent in his courage. With character fully established, his plan well thought out, he had only to go to those in command of capital and it would have been forthcoming.

  

  Douglas Fairbanks
  • Good
  • Money
  • Character

• We live in stories. What we are is stories. We do things because of what is called character, and our character is formed by the stories we learn to live in.

  

  William Kittredge
  • Character
  • Stories