Ethel Wilson Quotes

Your power comes from the songs.

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• I am a man of tomorrow, but I also live my past.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Live
  • Past
  • Tomorrow

• History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • People
  • Why
  • History

• The old bastions of the post-communist regime collapsed before my very eyes. The monsters who had kept Ukraine in a criminal state left the stage.

  

  Yulia Tymoshenko
  • Eyes
  • Stage
  • Old

• My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Music
  • Me
  • Feel

• Even if your novel occurs in an unfamiliar setting in which all the customs and surroundings will seem strange to your reader, it's still better to start with action. The reason for this is simple. If the reader wanted an explanation of milieu, he would read nonfiction. He doesn't want information. He wants a story.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Action
  • Simple
  • Information

• Everything that I design I would wear myself.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Myself
  • Design
  • Everything

• I like to do my own make-up.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Up
  • Like
  • Own

• As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Woman
  • Young
  • Name

• A good hair day is when my curls are popping. Sometimes my curls and waves, they like to go a little wild sometimes. They have a mind of their own. But some days, they just fall right into place.

  

  Zendaya
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Day

• The emphasis should be on why we do a job.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Why
  • Job
  • Should

• I've been working a long time; it was a slow burn. But I'm grateful it's been like that.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Time
  • Long
  • Grateful

• Whether labeled as such or not, I think every book I've ever written has been, more or less, a romantic suspense. I have always put tremendous effort into making each book a page turner: The harder it is for the reader to put it down, the better I've done my job.

  

  Maggie Shayne
  • Done
  • Job
  • Book

• Acting is a form of confession.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Acting
  • Form
  • Confession

• There is a huge body of evidence showing that people do better in their work when they know why they're doing it in the first place. They do better when they see what they're doing contributes to something in the world.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Try
  • Politicians
  • Cease

• I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Believe
  • Sun
  • I Believe

• I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Women
  • Power
  • Think

• The principle of the design - the harmony, rhythm and balance are all the same with interior and fashion design.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Fashion
  • Design
  • Balance

• Indeed, the existence of class, of social hierarchy, is as old as man himself. It prevails in the jungle where strength determines hierarchy; among men, it has also been savagely the same, whereby rulers vested with power through personal combat, or through lineal heritage as in the case of royalty, ravage their subjects.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Men
  • Power
  • Man

• Since 1987, when I got my first one, I've been wearing a clock around my neck 24/7. You feel me? 24/7.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Me
  • Feel
  • Clock

• It's interesting: when you're kind of 'known' for being a writer, people don't think you've done anything else.

  

  Kay Cannon
  • People
  • Done
  • Interesting

• Too many of us had to suffer at the hands of a judiciary so independent that it often acted independently of both the basic principles of jurisprudence and the very constitution it swore to uphold and protect.

  

  Bilawal Bhutto Zardari
  • Independent

• You can have a very bad end with Parkinson's, but on the other hand, you can be like me, because I'm lucky. I'm not having a bad end.

  

  Margo MacDonald
  • Bad
  • Hand

• Your power comes from the songs.

  

  Ethel Wilson
  • Power
  • Songs