William DeVries Quotes

I would have picked up the artificial heart and thrown it on the floor and walked out and said he's dead if the press had not been there.

William DeVries

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• Age is just a number. Unless, that is, you live in Hollywood, where there's this notion that if you haven't hit it big by your 20s, you may as well hit the road.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Live
  • May
  • Age

• I really appreciate people like Rosie coming out and saying I've inspired them.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • People
  • Inspired
  • Appreciate

• 'Morning Joe' host Mika Brzezinski's personal life is a minefield. Her father is Zbigniew Brzezinski, former national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter, and while one brother is an Obama appointee, the other advises Romney.

  

  Brown Campbell
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• I don't think I have a black-hat image.

  

  Harold Simmons
  • Think
  • Black
  • Image

• A president who aspires to be recognized as a global leader should not personally stake out a foreign-policy goal, commit himself eloquently to its attainment, and then yield the ground when confronted by firm opposition.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Goal
  • Leader
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• I think it is widely agreed that Carl Steinitz, over the 50 years he taught at Harvard, has been one of the most important figures in influencing the theory and practice of landscape architecture and the application of computer technology to planning.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Important
  • Technology
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• Our soldiers and people form one family. United, we may count on victory.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • People
  • Family
  • May

• It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Writing
  • Money
  • Art

• My accent is... sort of an Edinburgh sort of soft southwest Scottish accent. It could almost be English.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • English
  • Almost
  • Accent

• Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Baseball
  • Whole
  • Undergone

• Heaven to me is percussion and bass, a screaming guitar and a burbling Hammond B-3 organ. It's a soup I love being immersed in.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Love
  • Heaven
  • Guitar

• What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?

  

  O. Henry
  • World
  • Together
  • Moving

• The nearest way to God Leads through love's open door; The path of knowledge is Too slow for evermore

  

  Angelus Silesius
  • God
  • Knowledge
  • Path

• You are a human boy, my young friend. A human boy. O glorious to be a human boy!... O running stream of sparkling joy To be a soaring human boy!

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Running
  • Friend
  • Joy

• TF: At which point did you stop being celibate, why and who with? M: I don't see how anyone would benefit from seeing that kind of information in print. Least of all me.

  

  Morrissey The Smiths
  • Why
  • Stop

• I have the instruments, ideas, technology, computer techniques. We try to create or see something, which has not been known before - just to discover something together. This is always my dream.

  

  Lennart Nilsson
  • Together
  • Dream
  • Technology

• The church which ceases to be evangelistic will soon cease to be evangelical.

  

  Alexander Duff
  • Church

• Delete the negative; accentuate the positive!

  

  Donna Karan
  • Positive

• In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.

  

  Alan Dean Foster
  • Character
  • Book

• A cell is a complex structure, with its investing membrane, nucleus, and nucleolus.

  

  Charles Darwin

• This storm you talk of . . .t will be such a one, my son, as the world has not seen before. There will be no safety by arms, no help from authority, no answer in science. It will rage till every flower of culture is trampled, and all human things are leveled in a vast chaos.

  

  James Hilton
  • Science
  • Chaos
  • Storm

• O, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in't!

  

  William Shakespeare
  • People
  • World
  • Wonder

• I would have picked up the artificial heart and thrown it on the floor and walked out and said he's dead if the press had not been there.

  

  William DeVries
  • Heart
  • Science
  • Presses