Bill Crawford Quotes

Perspective is what allows us to step back and see the entire forest instead of just the same old tree we keep running into again and again.

Bill Crawford

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• OKCupid's model is almost entirely based on advertising, which is the way most online media is monetized these days, whether it's the news or whether it's sports, and we think online dating is going to evolve in the exact same way.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Sports
  • Model
  • Same

• My favorite big city would have to be Chicago. I lived in Indiana for several years and would always go into the city with my family for Cubs games or to visit the aquarium and museums on field trips.

  

  Karen Fairchild Little Big Town
  • Family
  • City
  • Chicago

• Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Die
  • Sense

• That was one of the best, exciting things for me to play with them. They were very young and eager to go. I'd been playing with a band that was mostly old folks that had been together so long we couldn't do anything to excite each other.

  

  Earl Scruggs
  • Long
  • Together
  • Band

• In every European nation, there have been problems in history when the society was too divided.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • History
  • Society
  • Problems

• I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • World
  • Change
  • Poetry

• If a reviewer is beating me up, I just say, 'Oh well, my writing is not to his or her taste.' And that's as far as it goes. Because I will simultaneously read a review where somebody says, 'Oh my God, I had so much fun reading this book and I learned so much.'

  

  Dan Brown
  • Up
  • God
  • Writing

• 'The Sisters Brothers' started out as a little bit of dialogue between these two men who became Eli and Charlie Sisters.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Men
  • Between
  • Brothers

• Well, my mom taught public school music for almost 40 years. And she's about 5 feet - and very mighty. And she would control her kids a lot by giving them the eye, or the stare.

  

  Vanessa Williams
  • Music
  • School
  • Kids

• The trouble with most comedians who try to do satire is that they are essentially brash, noisy and indelicate people who have to use a sledge hammer to smash a butterfly.

  

  Imogene Coca
  • People
  • Try
  • Butterfly

• The great thing about Watergate is, is that the system worked. The American system worked. The press did its job. We did what we were supposed to do.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • Great
  • Job
  • American

• If we fix our economic system and invest in the human capital of the poor, then we should welcome every new person born as a source of betterment for our world and all of us on it.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • World
  • Economic
  • Welcome

• Here once, through an alley Titanic,Of cypress, I roamed with my Soul - Of cypress, with Psyche, my Soul.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Soul
  • Titanic

• I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living his life, and who had good friends, a fine family. I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.

  

  Frank Sinatra
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• 'Until recently we were a trio. Before that, a quartet. Perhaps it’s just me, but I’m beginning to detect a trend.'

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • Beginning

• They screwed with democracy. I’m not going to lose much sleep when democracy screws them back.

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • Sleep
  • Democracy

• Many of the problems that families face can be solved with great technology, design, and distribution.

  

  Christine Tsai
  • Great
  • Technology
  • Design

• There was a real conflation of hero and victim in the wake of 9/11, in our perverse desire to create a triumphant myth out of pure tragedy.

  

  Jess Walter
  • Real
  • Desire
  • Hero

• I'm always reading several books at the same time, depending on how deeply engrossed in it I am, if it's fiction and if it captures me.

  

  Andie MacDowell
  • Time
  • Reading

• The importance of our connection, what it meant to find each other again, the way it made what happened to us and between us not be a waste, not be for nothing. He would know, he had to know, that not saying good-bye would be the worst end of all.

  

  Sara Zarr
  • Worst
  • Importance
  • Connections

• Character is like a tree, and reputation is like its shadow.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Character
  • Tree
  • Shadow

• I don't dislike my peers because they're still around and remind me of what I'm doing. I never liked them anyway. I never liked U2, the things they've done over the years.

  

  Robert Smith Siouxsie and the Banshees
  • Done

• Laws are the very bulkwarks of liberty; they define every man's rights, and defend the individual liberties of all men.

  

  J. G. Holland
  • Men
  • Law
  • Rights

• Perspective is what allows us to step back and see the entire forest instead of just the same old tree we keep running into again and again.

  

  Bill Crawford
  • Perspective
  • Tree
  • Forest