Nathaniel Parker Willis Quotes

The rain is playing its soft pleasant tune fitfully on the skylight, and the shade of the fast-flying clouds across my book passed with delicate change.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

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• I do remember in high school I wanted to be a disc jockey.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • School
  • Remember
  • High

• I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Time
  • Career
  • Day

• A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.

  

  Gary Becker
  • Chinese
  • Stronger
  • Lead

• I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Money

• I got the role I loved the most at a point in my career when most women are being phased out.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Women
  • Career
  • Loved

• As I watched bookstores close, I began to wonder how that felt for the owners. Owning a bookstore was their dream and now they're struggling and seeing those dreams fall apart.

  

  Karen Kingsbury
  • Dream
  • Fall
  • Wonder

• I grew up really poor and have always been the type of person who will work earlier or work harder or more than the other person to even the playing field.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Up
  • Work
  • Will

• I felt like people only knew me as a singer who dated pretty girls.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Me

• I've had a very full and lovely career so far, and I can't honestly say that I've ever really found myself in a man's world, struggling for an identity or trying to prove something.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • World
  • Trying
  • Career

• I think William Trevor is as good as it gets. Whenever I want a book to do exactly what it says it will, I read him.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Good
  • Book
  • Want

• I go to various boot camps 4-5 times a week, and I try to get some Pilates in there to thin and tone.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • Try
  • Week
  • Tone

• It's going to sound ridiculous, but knowing how to pose, how to maintain a level of engagement and variation for a day of shooting, is actually a skill.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Day
  • Sound
  • Engagement

• I didn't want to disrespect my parents, so I never played blues around the house. But I knew then, same as I know today, that I wasn't doing anything wrong. I think that before they died, they both felt very proud of me.

  

  B. B. King
  • Want
  • House
  • Parents

• I've gone bankrupt about four times now. Every dollar I earn goes on the show.

  

  Lady Gaga

• One night, I wrote down all the things I was waiting to do with my little granddaughter, and it became a book, 'I Already Know I Love You.' It was one of those really lovely things in life.

  

  Billy Crystal
  • Life
  • Book
  • Night

• Children who reach the age of eighteen with their entire skills set composed on Nintendo and eating Doritos have been neglected. Their parents neglected to give them the character traits necessary to live successfully.

  

  Dave Ramsey
  • Live
  • Children
  • Character

• A lot of times, when a band finds success with a certain style or sound, they have a really hard time breaking away from that to grow as artists.

  

  Matt Cameron Soundgarden
  • Time
  • Success
  • Band

• It wasn't like I was specifically wanting to write songs about technology. It's just what I lived, what I was experiencing growing up.

  

  Khalid
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Technology

• I'm a proponent of single-payer health-care, public education, protecting the environment - all the things Democrats rally around.

  

  Cynthia Dill
  • Education
  • Health
  • Single

• There were a couple of years where I got a bit lost - I went out too much, I was a bit heartbroken, thought I was a bit more of a dude than I really was. I would love to go back and have a strong word with myself.

  

  James Corden
  • Strong
  • Lost
  • Couple

• I'm not of a science background, I was never a comic book geek, and I was never a gamer.

  

  Niall Matter
  • Book
  • Science

• The husbands, who sometimes have another family who's grown, are going, Now I can spend time with my baby. Oh yeah, I bet your other family is really thrilled.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • Time
  • Family
  • Baby

• Anybody singing the blues is in a deep pit yelling for help.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Help
  • Singing
  • Deep

• The rain is playing its soft pleasant tune fitfully on the skylight, and the shade of the fast-flying clouds across my book passed with delicate change.

  

  Nathaniel Parker Willis
  • Book
  • Rain
  • Flying