George McWhirter Quotes

A simile is like a pair of eyeglasses, one side sees this, one side sees that, the device brings them together.

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• A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.

  

  Abba Eban
  • Movement
  • Elegance
  • Posture

• A leader is admired, a boss is feared.

  

  Vicente del Bosque
  • Leader
  • Boss
  • Feared

• I'm going to get hated for saying this, but honestly, fantasy is easy to write because you can do anything. It's like when Raymond Chandler brings in a bloke with a gun when he's stuck - in fantasy, up pops a wizard, and off we go.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Up
  • Easy
  • Gun

• You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Mind
  • Identity
  • Find

• I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.

  

  Van Morrison
  • People
  • Live
  • Like

• I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Alone
  • Rights
  • Indians

• We are constantly competing with the monsters from the id.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Monsters
  • Competing
  • id

• I do not favor the gag order.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Order
  • Favor
  • Gag

• I can't solve the poverty problem, but there are things you can do to mitigate its effects on kids.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • Kids
  • You
  • Problem

• I'm pretty much a straight guy on 'The Office.' We can't all be crazies. You need some balance.

  

  Oscar Nunez
  • Guy
  • Pretty
  • You

• My first time coming over to North America was to New York around Christmastime when I was 7. My mom was a flight attendant, and she got put on to the Trans-Atlantic route over Christmastime, so she brought the whole family.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Time
  • Family
  • She

• My parents would always tell you that I was the crazy princess growing up. I was a drama queen.

  

  Mallory Jansen
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Growing

• I understand a ship to be made for the carrying and preservation of the cargo, and so long as the ship can be saved, with the cargo, it should never be abandoned. This Union likewise should never be abandoned unless it fails and the possibility of its preservation shall cease to exist, without throwing passengers and cargo overboard.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Long
  • Understand
  • Ship

• Everybody wants to solve everybody's problems.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Problems
  • Wants
  • Solve

• After Land I wanted to continue exploring the theme but I needed a new challenge so turned to colour. I explored Bradford and produced a series of urban landscapes that I liked, but because Land had made such an impact on the general public my colour work wasn't reviewed.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • Work
  • Challenge
  • Impact

• Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. To plant a pine, for example, one need be neither god nor poet; one need only own a shovel. By virtue of this curious loophole in the rules, any clodhopper may say: Let there be a tree-and there will be one.

  

  Aldo Leopold
  • God
  • May
  • Tree

• When I got my MacBook, I started playing around with Garageband a lot. It was just a creative outlet. I put everything into it. I would skip all my classes just to be making my songs. Stuff like that made me feel good.

  

  Kali Uchis
  • Good

• I'm a geek who loves fashion. There's been a reinvention of the word geek. It means being passionate about anything that's under the radar or sort of frowned upon, like Comic-Con.

  

  Kristen Bell
  • Fashion

• National Osteoporosis Awareness and Prevention Month is celebrated each May, and becomes a chance for our Nation to become more familiar with the effects of this disease, and about the preventable steps that we can take to deal with it.

  

  Lois Capps
  • May

• Finding your style is like putting puzzle pieces together.

  

  Lara Spencer
  • Together
  • Style
  • Puzzle

• I live in Atlanta, Georgia, and none of the other Backstreet Boys live in Georgia. So a lot of times, when people come to my house they're like, 'Hey, is A.J. here?' Or, 'Is Kevin here?' Or, 'Is Nick in the bathroom?' People think we live together and we spend all the time in the world together, but we really don't.

  

  Brian Littrell
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• Do you know what the lurid intermixture of complicated emotions produces, according to Nathaniel Hawthorne? That's right, it produces the illuminating blaze of the infernal regions. Ryan MacDonald's glorious shards of prose are both lurid and blazing, and together they comprise an anthology of complex feelings-dream-like, vivid, and never, ever obvious.

  

  Chris Bachelder
  • Together
  • Feelings
  • Emotion

• Foucault is one of many who want a new conception of how power and knowledge interact. But he is not looking for a relation between two givens, 'power' and 'knowledge.' As always, he is trying to rethink the entire subject matter, and his 'knowledge' and 'power' are to be something else.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Trying
  • Power
  • Knowledge

• A simile is like a pair of eyeglasses, one side sees this, one side sees that, the device brings them together.

  

  George McWhirter
  • Together
  • Device
  • Simile