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
  • Life
  • Father
  • Morning

• 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
  • Yield

• 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
  • Practice

• 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

• Science fiction is a unique literature. Science fiction is the first literature that says, 'Tomorrow is going to be different than yesterday, it's going to be a lot different.'

  

  David Gerrold
  • Different
  • Science
  • Literature

• I'm a huge advocate for individuals with disabilities.

  

  Jamie Brewer

• School has never really been about individualized learning, but about how to be socialized as a citizen and as a human being, so that we, we have important rules in school, always emphasizing the fact that one is part of a group.

  

  Neil Postman
  • Important
  • School
  • Learning

• Going to the Super Bowl is not the reward. It's playing really well and winning.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Winning
  • Reward
  • Super Bowl

• Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.

  

  Keri Russell
  • Life
  • Forever

• Single mothers have as much to teach their children as married mothers and as much love to share--maybe more. Yet their motives are often labeled selfish and single-minded--never mind all the babies brought into the world to snag husbands, "save" faltering marriages or produce heirs.

  

  Anne Cassidy
  • World
  • Mind
  • Children

• There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Heart
  • Something
  • Humility

• Yet the harsh fact is that in many places in this country men and women are kept from voting simply because they are Negroes ... No law that we now have on the books ...can insure the right to vote when local officials are determined to deny it.

  

  Lyndon B. Johnson
  • Men
  • Women
  • Country

• 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