Eileen Wilks Quotes

I see you. I will be careful with the places that hurt.

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• To the poet fated to be a poet, self-expression is as natural and as involuntary as breathing is to us ordinary mortals.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Natural
  • U.S.
  • Breathing

• First developed as a weapon by the U.S. Army, VX is an oily, odorless and tasteless liquid that kills on contact with the skin or when inhaled in aerosol form. Like other nerve agents, it is treatable in the first minutes after exposure but otherwise leads swiftly to fatal convulsions and respiratory failure.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Failure
  • Army
  • First

• Believe in something larger than yourself... get involved in the big ideas of your time.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Yourself

• People don't hear me talk. They don't expect me to.

  

  Kate Moss
  • People
  • Talk
  • Expect

• I wrote my first book when I was in my late thirties.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Book
  • First
  • Late

• Those who want to perpetuate apartheid also seek to divert your attention to the false issue of communism, to send the entire American public on a witch hunt.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • American
  • Want
  • Attention

• Misery and poverty are so absolutely degrading, and exercise such a paralysing effect over the nature of men, that no class is ever really conscious of its own suffering. They have to be told of it by other people, and they often entirely disbelieve them.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Nature
  • Suffering

• Science is competitive, aggressive, demanding. It is also imaginative, inspiring, uplifting.

  

  Vera Rubin
  • Science
  • Uplifting

• We know we’ve come to a crossroads when German childhood is being held up as an idealized model for Americans.

  

  Adam Gopnik
  • Up
  • Childhood
  • Model

• Apart from cheese and tulips, the main product of the country is advocaat, a drink made from lawyers.

  

  Alan Coren
  • Country

• I go to bars and restaurants, and I sit and I eavesdrop on people and I watch people in shopping centers and, you know, I read the newspapers and I talk to the Trenton cops, and I just get a lot of information that comes in that somehow turns into a book.

  

  Janet Evanovich
  • People
  • Book
  • Shopping

• I enjoy art, architecture, museums, churches and temples; anything that gives me insight into the history and soul of the place I'm in. I can also be a beach bum - I like to laze in the shade of a palm tree with a good book or float in a warm sea at sundown.

  

  Cherie Lunghi
  • Good
  • Art
  • Book

• Accents are very tangible, blessedly, and if you have to do one, it's a way of getting into character. I can read it through a few times and pretend I know what I'm doing!

  

  Emily Mortimer
  • Character

• In my life, I was always floating around the edge of the dark side and saying what if take it a little bit too far, and who says you have to stop there, and what's behind the next door. Maybe you gain a wisdom from examining those things. But after a while, you get too far down in the quicksand.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
  • Life
  • Stop
  • Wisdom

• It feels good to be productive.

  

  Jason Fried
  • Good

• It's well done if you can do a part and not have the acting show.

  

  Jimmy Stewart
  • Done

• More labels should be like that. Instead of putting these records out myself, I should have just signed with them, but they probably don't like my music (laughs).

  

  Matthew Sweet
  • Music

• What I wish for myself is that I could be the kind of person who just goes, 'This is what I need,' and doesn't feel bad about it.

  

  Courteney Cox
  • Bad
  • Wish
  • Myself

• The process of growing and learning always involves risk.

  

  Nido Qubein
  • Growing
  • Learning
  • Risk

• I'm only waiting for Lindsay Lohan's fashion collection to come out. Ten years from now, there may be no real designers left.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Real
  • May
  • Fashion

• Do the best job I can, not hurt our fellow beings on this planet, that's my religion.

  

  Anu Garg
  • Job
  • Hurt

• Abortion sheds that innocent blood. Now, as a servant of the Lord, I dutifully warn those who advocate and practice abortion that they incur the wrath of Almighty God, who declared, "If men... hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her . . . he shall be surely punished."

  

  Russell M. Nelson
  • Men
  • Children
  • Hurt

• I see you. I will be careful with the places that hurt.

  

  Eileen Wilks
  • Hurt
  • Careful