William H. Calvin Quotes

Our CO2 mixes with everyone else's within a year, then hangs around for centuries like a shroud.

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• I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn't show any Australian films.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • Up
  • Culture
  • Lost

• I was nine, and I was shopping in a supermarket with my dad. There was this cereal, and it had a special promotion with a CD inside the box that had a really simple music-making program on it. I got it, and that opened my mind to being able to make music on a computer and seeing all the different layers.

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Different
  • Mind

• Raising children should mean helping them to become what they already are in God’s eyes.

  

  Eberhard Arnold
  • God
  • Children
  • Eyes

• I might try that one thing, you know, that thing people do when their eyes get all wet and stupid—what’s it called? Crying? Or NOT. I might PUNCH you instead and trust that you won’t punch me back because of my endearing smallness. It would be like punching a child.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • People
  • Children
  • Eyes

• There are no hard and fast rules. Sometimes you work for free and get no credit or courtesy. That's why you make sure you do what you love.

  

  Lalah Hathaway
  • Work
  • Why
  • Free

• You've got to dance like nobody's watching, and love like it's never going to hurt.

  

  Kathy Mattea
  • Dance
  • Hurt
  • Watching

• Joe Frazier is ugly. He has no rhythm, no footwork, no class, he cannot talk.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Talk
  • Rhythm
  • Ugle

• This is sweet to see your foe, perish and pay to justice all he owes.

  

  Euripides
  • Justice
  • Pay
  • Foe

• I want nothing but death.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Death

• I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among the creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of kindness and compassion.

  

  William Falconer
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Soul

• We city dwellers, we residents of Los Angeles and the surrounding areas, are for the most part urbanized to some extent. We know deadlines, start times and traffic.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Cities
  • Areas
  • Deadline

• There never was a man on earth who pitched as much as me. But the more I pitched, the stronger my arm would get.

  

  Satchel Paige
  • Man
  • Earth

• Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.

  

  Satchel Paige
  • Strikes

• As a girl - twelve, thirteen years old - I was absolutely certain that a good book had to have a man as its hero, and that depressed me.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Girl
  • Hero
  • Good Book

• The climate is changing, and anyone who disagrees is, in my view, still in denial.

  

  William Clay Ford, Jr.
  • Climate
  • Denial
  • Who

• The economic dependence of woman and her apparently indestructible illusion that marriage will release her from loneliness and work and worry are potent factors in immunizing her from common sense in dealing with men at work.

  

  Mary Barnett Gilson
  • Work
  • Men
  • Marriage

• I read the reviews sometimes, but I don't let it really affect the next album because, for me, when I approach an album, it's usually coming to me pretty naturally. It's not like I set out, like, "Okay, I'm going to write an album this month." It's more like I'm just always writing songs and eventually I start to realize that a group of songs sort of fits together, and I go from there in putting together the album and themes and artwork and things like that.

  

  Chelsea Wolfe
  • Writing
  • Together
  • Song

• I know who I am, how I was. I don't want to know how I will be because nobody knows that.

  

  Catherine Deneuve
  • Know

• Our CO2 mixes with everyone else's within a year, then hangs around for centuries like a shroud.

  

  William H. Calvin
  • Century
  • Climate
  • Shrouds