Katharine Susannah Prichard Quotes

I write to reach people's common sense and intelligence, to show them that if they unite they can make a different world possible.

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• People are predominant in my paintings. Although they are not obvious, you can feel their presence.

  

  Ralph Allen
  • People
  • Feel
  • Presence

• People get cranky when you burst their bubble. Over time, advances in astronomy have relentlessly reinforced the utter insignificance of Earth on a celestial scale. Fortunately, political and religious leaders stopped barbecuing astronomers for saying so, turning their spits with human-rights activists instead.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Time
  • Political

• When you're trying to bring the streets into rap to prove a point, then you already lost. You separate the two, and that ain't to be played with. You've got people that lost their lives and people that are doing real time. If we gon' make music, let's just make music.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• You feel this pressure that people will take you more seriously if you play guitar, but I've decided I'm a singer and that's enough.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • People
  • Play
  • Guitar

• I pray to God I get inside a girl's head one day and see what in the WORLD they are thinking.

  

  AJ McLean
  • World
  • God
  • Thinking

• Kids feel so strongly about what's going on today and what's happening to the world, and that's very inspiring. I feel more hopeful than ever before about the future.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • World
  • Kids
  • Future

• I wore goofy hats to school and did musical theater. Most people thought I was a dork. But if you have a sense of humor about it, no one can bring you down.

  

  Zac Efron
  • People
  • School
  • Thought

• Some people care too much. I think it's called love.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • People
  • Love
  • Think

• China leads the world in energy consumption, carbon emissions, and the release of major air and water pollutants, and the environmental impact is felt both regionally and globally.

  

  Ma Jun
  • World
  • Energy
  • Water

• BRAC originated in the 1960s under President Kennedy as the Department of Defense (DOD) had to realign its base structure after World War II and the Korean War. At that time, the DOD was able to close bases without congressional interference, and 60 bases were closed in the 1960s.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Time
  • World
  • War

• When the 'godfather of punk' thing started floatin' around, it was, I was really, really embarrassed. I thought I should have a great, big rig and a cape and everything, and it was very embarrassing. And then after a while, you learn that if people call you anything, this is a great gift.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • People
  • Great
  • Thought

• Cinema seats make people lazy. They expect to be given all the information. But for me, question marks are the punctuation of life.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • People
  • Life
  • Question

• I just hate meetings. Though it's true that once you've made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you don't want to seize every opportunity to do so.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • People
  • Money
  • True

• I was afraid of just about everything in this world, with the possible exception of my mother and I wasn't too sure about her.

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
  • World
  • Mother
  • Possible

• It might crush a lot of people, but I've never been in the room with an artist that I've written a song for.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • People
  • Song
  • Artist

• Rich people march on Washington every day.

  

  I. F. Stone
  • People
  • Day
  • Rich

• Sometimes you want to go for a walk and you don't want to be watched. You just want to be anonymous and blend in. Especially when I travel, I feel that way, because I can't really go out and see a city the way other people can and I miss out on a lot.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • People
  • City
  • Travel

• I like the pressure of having to perform so people will come to me.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • People
  • Me
  • Pressure

• Business creates jobs; government does not. Government creates a whole slew of jobs each time a new program or scheme is implemented, but always at the expense of the taxpayer. Small businesses invest in new businesses, which results in more jobs.

  

  Ralph Norman
  • Time
  • Business
  • Small

• I got good notice from that show, and on the last day of filming Townies, Twentieth Century Fox called wanting to meet with me about a development deal.

  

  Jenna Elfman
  • Good

• Whilst I may not actually help anyone to retaliate, I must not let a coward seek shelter behind nonviolence so-called. Not knowing the stuff of which nonviolence is made, many have honestly believed that running away from danger every time was a virtue compared to offering resistance, especially when it was fraught with danger to one's life. As a teacher of nonviolence I must, so far as it is possible for me, guard against such an unmanly belief.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Belief
  • Resistance
  • Running Away

• Your life is an occasion. Rise to it.

  

  Suzanne Weyn
  • Life
  • Rise
  • Occasion

• For your own self-respect and sanity, your creative freedom, you have to be careful that you don't rely too much on other people's opinions of what you do because it can stunt and inhibit you.

  

  Luke Evans
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Respect

• I write to reach people's common sense and intelligence, to show them that if they unite they can make a different world possible.

  

  Katharine Susannah Prichard
  • People
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  • Different