Elizabeth Kolbert Quotes

What are the Chinese doing, what are we doing, what are - so we need, both the developed world and the developing world, really need to be moving, once again, getting all your arrows in the same direction if you want to have any impact.

Elizabeth Kolbert

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• I wouldn't want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities.

  

  Banksy
  • Money
  • Art
  • Guy

• My mom, she's the strict one. If we did something bad, we'd get a whippin' but nothing too bad.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • She
  • Bad
  • Mom

• In writing, I search for believability, simplicity and emotional impact.

  

  Hal David
  • Writing
  • Emotional
  • Search

• The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.

  

  Yukihiro Matsumoto
  • Complexity
  • Explode

• I just use intuition - would I wear that? Would it feel okay? It's pretty simple, nothing too complicated.

  

  Yoon Ahn
  • Pretty
  • Simple
  • Nothing

• Just because you have a learning difficulty or difference doesn't mean you aren't smart.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Learning
  • Smart
  • Difference

• I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Guy
  • Never
  • Punk

• The ultimate end is a nation that lies under the concept of the Declaration of Indepen dence. The Declaration of Independence is such an extraordinary statement - it was designed by people skeptical of government, local or national, but in particular national.

  

  Malcolm Wallop
  • People
  • Government
  • Lies

• I know of some guitar-based rock bands that refuse to record anything that they can't play live. But some of the best stuff I come up with are studio-based performances - bringing out whatever accident I had in the studio and building a song around that.

  

  Washed Out
  • Up
  • Live
  • Song

• As I slowly managed to take what I had learned into a transition from contestant to announcer and warm-up, I first had to prove myself on pilots. And as you know, many pilots are taped for each show that is lucky enough to breakthrough to being a series.

  

  Randy West
  • Up
  • Myself
  • Lucky

• Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves.

  

  Owen Feltham
  • Soul
  • Best
  • Her

• My father had spent years fighting cancer of the head and neck. He had numerous operations, and he was reduced and reduced and reduced. By the end, he had a growth so big under his eye that it hurt to look at him.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • Father
  • Fighting
  • Hurt

• My chief literary influences have been Paul Laurence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg, and Walt Whitman. My favorite public figures include Jimmy Durante, Marlene Dietrich, Mary McLeod Bethune, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Marian Anderson, and Henry Armstrong.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Favorite
  • Literary
  • Mary

• Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.

  

  Irwin Corey
  • Marriage
  • Lose
  • Bank

• '24' had to withstand accusations of being right-wing, but 'Homeland' is a far more liberal show.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • More
  • Far
  • Liberal

• Anybody who has spent time with the networks - in fact, you don't even have to spend time with the networks, all you have to do is just watch primetime TV - and you think, 'What the hell are they doing? I could run the network better.' And I think everybody feels that way.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Time
  • Doing
  • Hell

• The truth is, as long as nuclear weapons exist, we are not safe.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Long
  • Truth
  • Truth Is

• Sosias: The love of wine is a good man's failing. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)

  

  Aristophanes
  • Good
  • Wine

• Football is a game of business. You don't work for free.

  

  Jason Pierre-Paul
  • Work
  • Business
  • Game

• Americans were outraged and horrified by this president's reckless spending and his endless assaults on the Constitution, but no issue drove them to rise up and fight back like Obamacare - both the abominable legislative monstrosity itself and the tyrannical, corrupt manner by which Obama crammed it through the legislative process.

  

  David Limbaugh
  • Up

• I'm thrilled to feel that I can rely on myself totally and absolutely; that my children are being brought up so that when they meet a problem they can't cop out by foisting it off on God.

  

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair
  • Up
  • God
  • Children

• If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and the Bible is not from God, how can infidels explain Jesus Christ? His existence in history they cannot deny. How is it that without force or bribery, without arms or money, He has made such an immensely deep mark on the world as He certainly has?

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • World
  • God
  • Money

• I got real important relationships in my life that are very empowering relationships.

  

  Dave Chappelle
  • Life
  • Important
  • Real

• What are the Chinese doing, what are we doing, what are - so we need, both the developed world and the developing world, really need to be moving, once again, getting all your arrows in the same direction if you want to have any impact.

  

  Elizabeth Kolbert
  • Chinese
  • Direction
  • Developed