Chip Heath Quotes
One of my favorite bloggers who can articulate his ideas clearly is Avinash Kaushik. The only problem? His ideas are so awesome his posts are a mile long, but I promise they are worth the time.
Quotes to Explore
-
In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught by the Communists in Shanghai. And he was there for about a year until he was finally able to get out.
-
Do you follow American politics? They hate Obama. Hate him. He's a black man. That's what it is: it's racist. This guy is no bleeding-heart liberal. He's a centrist.
-
Once I discovered how important writing music was to me and just what a huge weight it lifted off of me, I knew that it was going to be the biggest part of my life, the biggest love of my life, the biggest thing in my life.
-
I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
-
I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.
-
I think poetry is a fabulous medium to encapsulate thoughts far more precisely than prose.
-
Of course there are times when I think, 'I'd be better out of this.'
-
I'm addicted to 'Scandal.' Joe Morton is the devil, and I love him. I am addicted to 'Boardwalk Empire.' Jeffrey Wright is the devil, and I love him.
-
I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
-
Car chases are as painstaking to make as they are fun to watch. They take a lot of time, and you have to keep the energy up.
-
Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
-
Family is very important to me because that is the footprint we perpetuate. That is, the ripple in the water when the rock first impacts the pool, and it is those waves, that energy that one produces, that determines our direction.
-
If I had my druthers, I would be a brain in a jar, with a burlap skirt around the cart I'm on - I don't attend to my physical being much.
-
Kabul is a walled city, which sounds romantic except the walls are pre-cast reinforced concrete blast barriers, 10 feet tall and 15 feet long and moved into place with cranes. The walls are topped with sandbags, and the sandbags are topped with guard posts from which gun barrels protrude.
-
My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.
-
I don't like modeling, but in terms of the places I got to visit, it was great.
-
I am not interested in medals or titles. I don't need them. I need the love of the public and I fight for it.
-
I'm kind of a jock. I sail, I ride a bike, I hike, I pump iron. I just love to be active.
-
If there are rain puddles in heaven, Christina is jumping in them today. And here on Earth, we place our hands over our hearts, and commit ourselves as Americans to forging a country that is forever worthy of her gentle, happy spirit.
-
It's interesting to fantasize having a man sink his teeth into your neck for sustenance, knowing that it isn't going to be terribly painful but rather very exciting.
-
I'm bored. I'm not unprofessional. I'm just bored.
-
The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.
-
Sometimes I walk into a situation and know someone is going to provoke me, and I just simply refuse to be provoked.
-
One of my favorite bloggers who can articulate his ideas clearly is Avinash Kaushik. The only problem? His ideas are so awesome his posts are a mile long, but I promise they are worth the time.
