Eileen Wilks Quotes

We don't go to the ocean for anything as simple as happiness, do we? We go there to feel alive. Like life, the ocean holds chance and change, grief and terror and beauty. It promises mortality, not peace.

Eileen Wilks

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• A Nicklaus Design golf course is done by the guys in my company that I work with, that have been trained in my vision, and they do what they think I might do. They might come in the office and ask me questions and I'd certainly answer their questions, but I'm not involved in the site visits or anything else.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Work
  • Done
  • Vision

• Obamacare is going to destroy the elderly by denying care, by even perhaps denying treatment to people who are in catastrophic circumstances.

  

  Rafael Cruz
  • People
  • Care
  • Circumstances

• A company's logo can be a visual ambassador, one that goes on everything from business cards to delivery trucks. When used effectively, it can be the window into the soul of a brand.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Business
  • Soul
  • Window

• I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
  • Love
  • Like

• Could I interrupt here, because there is an alternative explanation, which you are particularly well placed to examine. You know the argument that it is the alchemists in the laboratories who invent the sweet new kits.

  

  E. P. Thompson
  • Know
  • Sweet
  • Argument

• The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • People
  • May
  • American

• Dead men tell no tales.

  

  Haniel Long
  • Men
  • Dead
  • Tell

• We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Country
  • Want
  • Change

• While prices of goods continue to rise, American worker's wages remain stagnant.

  

  Ed Pastor
  • American
  • Rise
  • Stagnant

• Money scares me, and it always has done. I've got a childish concept of money, and I like to keep it that way in the sense that I don't like to think about it.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Money
  • Way
  • Sense

• Even as I think of myself as a 'rememberer,' I also know my memory is probably doing all this work to reconstruct a narrative where I come off better.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Work
  • Myself
  • Memory

• I could have lived off all the male careers in my family. Everybody was always getting ovations, but I was in the wings.

  

  Talia Shire
  • Family
  • Wings
  • Lived

• The fact that we elected Obama was a sign that the black struggle inherent in the blues and so much of the music I have loved can triumph.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Music
  • Black
  • Struggle

• When you research prolific songwriters, it is usually later in their career they write songs that they distance themselves from, or it's about other people.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • People
  • Career
  • Write

• The relationship between East and West needs to be and can be fixed via pop culture.

  

  Wang Leehom
  • Culture
  • Relationship
  • West

• My first collection was made from sheets that my grandmother, who lived in Normandy, had been collecting for a long time. There are a lot of flea markets in that part of France, and she knew what I liked.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Time
  • Long
  • She

• I'll never live to write all the stories I have in my head.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Live
  • Never
  • Head

• So a failed movie is not going to ruin my career.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Movie
  • Career
  • Going

• I'm a bug on acting, which distinguishes Second City from a lot of other revues. It comes from the character, the behavior, and not from the jokes. I don't think jokes are funny. Humor comes out of character and out of situations the character is in.

  

  Bernard Sahlins
  • Character
  • Funny
  • City

• O Jesus and Mary, let my entire consolation in this world be to love you and to suffer for sinners.

  

  Bernadette Soubirous
  • Suffer
  • Sinners
  • Consolation

• Despite the fact that there was not one shred of evidence that George Zimmerman 'racially profiled' Trayvon Martin, America's liberals have literally taken to the streets to denounce a verdict that was, by all accounts, a just one.

  

  Mike Gallagher
  • America
  • Liberals
  • George

• If you call someone up on a mistake - if the drummer's put an extra beat in a bar or something - you have a lot more authority if you can show them how to do it right.

  

  Steve Winwood Blind Faith
  • Up
  • Mistake

• We don't go to the ocean for anything as simple as happiness, do we? We go there to feel alive. Like life, the ocean holds chance and change, grief and terror and beauty. It promises mortality, not peace.

  

  Eileen Wilks
  • Simple
  • Chance
  • Promise