William H. Whyte Quotes

If you want to seed a place with activity, the first thing to do is to put out food.

William H. Whyte

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• All the girls today want to be famous, but they haven't earned their spurs.

  

  C. Z. Guest
  • Today
  • Want
  • Famous

• I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Done
  • Universe
  • Leadership

• I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Bad
  • Think
  • Software

• My life has changed in many ways, both on an economic and personal level. All major league players are accorded the respect they deserve. In Cuba, it was not that way. National team players were not respected. The treatment was not adequate.

  

  Yoenis Cespedes
  • Life
  • Team
  • Respect

• The emotions of the game do not change.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Game
  • Change
  • Emotions

• When I was in the country and I was trying to play, nobody seemed to pay too much attention to me. People used to say, 'That's just that ole blues singer.'

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • Attention
  • Play

• Even when a person has all of life's comforts - good food, good shelter, a companion - he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Life
  • Good
  • She

• When I'm on vacation here in the States, I can do all kinds of stuff; I can train and keep busy.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Vacation
  • Train
  • Busy

• When people think of someone being prolific, it's like, 'He's got a vault with 5,000 songs in it,' or something, but I just kind of pick them out of the air when they float by.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • People
  • Think
  • Kind

• In the name of the rule of law, democracy and human rights, we cannot accept that the rights of individuals (Arab or Muslim) be trampled upon, or that populations are targeted and discriminated against in the name of the war against terrorism.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • War
  • Law
  • Democracy

• Being a teenager is hard.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Being
  • Teenager
  • Being A Teenager

• That I am not a member of any Christian church is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures, and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Church
  • Christian
  • Religion

• Anybody that sings the blues is in a deep pit, yelling for help.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Help
  • Deep
  • Blues

• Irreverence not only shows disrespect to Deity but also makes it hard for the Spirit to teach us the things we need to know.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Know
  • Teach
  • Disrespect

• I read everything by Ian McEwan, he is so elegant. I love reading anything about Shakespeare, too. He is my first love. If I had a time machine, I would be hanging out with him.

  

  Kate Fleetwood
  • Time
  • Read
  • Elegant

• People might think I'm very hard, what with my black make-up, my hair over my eyes, etc. My innocence didn't always help me, but it did preserve something in me that maybe others don't have anymore. I'm inside my bubble, you could say, and thankfully so, because I don't think daily life is always great. It protects me.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I always worked mostly in Quebec. I never thought of the States, somehow. I don't know - I don't have blue eyes or blond hair. I thought I didn't fit with the stereotype of America.

  

  Karine Vanasse
  • America
  • Eyes
  • Hair

• American inventiveness and the desire to build developed because we were guaranteed the right to own our success.

  

  Rand Paul
  • American
  • Success
  • Desire

• In many professions, what used to matter most were abilities associated with the left side of the brain: linear, sequential, spreadsheet kind of faculties. Those still matter, but they're not enough.

  

  Daniel H. Pink
  • Brain

• Runoff from the rainfall this weekend combined with releases from reservoirs is going to keep that river and its tributaries at high levels.

  

  Jeff Cohen
  • Releases
  • Rainfall
  • Reservoirs

• I'm a health-food junkie, so all of my food is a splurge, money-wise!

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • Money
  • Food
  • Health

• When you write songs for your best friends and maybe two other people to hear, and then realize that a million other people are going to hear them, it can be a bit worrying. You get concerned about what you might reveal.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • People
  • Friends
  • Best

• The beginning of hardship is like the first taste of bitter food--it seems for a moment unbearable; yet, if there is nothing else to satisfy our hunger, we take another bite and find it possible to go on.

  

  George Eliot
  • Taste
  • Hunger
  • Satisfy

• If you want to seed a place with activity, the first thing to do is to put out food.

  

  William H. Whyte
  • Food
  • Place
  • Activity