George W. S. Trow Quotes

It is the idea of 'People' to treat its material as if it were history and, what is more, as if it were the history of a happy period.

George W. S. Trow

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• I get more tired by travelling than anything.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Tired
  • More
  • Travelling

• Over the years, I've learned that a sense of humor is the only skill that allows you to turn sucking at life into a career.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Life
  • Career
  • Humor

• I've tried coconut water straight up before, and to me, it's a little funky.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Me
  • Water
  • Little

• A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Political
  • Run
  • Key

• New voices in an old art - and women poets have been that for much more than a century - do not diminish the art through the category. They enrich it. They renew it with common quandaries of craft and innovation. The category simply allows the quandaries to be seen more clearly.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Women
  • Art
  • Innovation

• I meet everybody. If somebody invites me to their house and they got a drum set close, I'm going to play, man. Let's jam. I don't care. Get in where you fit in and enjoy the experience.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Experience
  • House
  • Man

• You have to be quite stupid to act.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • You
  • Stupid
  • Act

• I am lactose intolerant, and I always thought it was really funny how people who are lactose intolerant continue to eat dairy, because they like it so much. And I find it not acceptable.

  

  Lake Bell
  • People
  • Funny
  • Thought

• The terrorist attacks of September 11th and the courageous actions of our armed forces in Afghanistan and Iraq remind us that friends of tyranny and enemies of freedom still exist.

  

  Carl Levin
  • Friends
  • Freedom
  • September

• I'd love to set up shop somewhere and develop projects - film, TV, digital would be a fun thing to do.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Up
  • Love
  • Fun

• The capital goes wherever the opportunities are.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Opportunities
  • Wherever

• Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Life
  • Man
  • Action

• I love living around black people. Home is home. We suffer under racism and the physical deprivations that come with that, but beneath that, we form cultures and traditions that are beautiful.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Love
  • Home

• But my humble opinion is, I'm not quite sure where I stand on the legalization of drugs - though, if tequila is legal, pot should probably be legal.

  

  Ted Demme
  • Opinion
  • Humble
  • Stand

• Today, people tend to credit me with having the original idea and made the first circuits.

  

  Jack Kilby
  • People
  • Today
  • Credit

• I was a stock broker once. I think there is an absolute place for market investments. But they should never be the basis of one's retirement. They should be an additional piece on top of a basic, secure, guaranteed retirement benefit.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Think
  • Stock
  • Retirement

• For my part, if I'm working while flying, I'm often a bit relieved to be forced to shut down the computer on final descent. But I guess I'm a slacker.

  

  Meghan Daum
  • Flying

• Part of what I loved - and love - about being around older people is the tangible sense of history they embody. I'm interested in military history, for instance, because both my grandfathers fought in World War II. I'm interested in writing because one of those grandfathers wrote books.

  

  Jon Meacham
  • People
  • World
  • Writing

• That the past is ahead, in front of us, is a conception of time that helps us retain our memories and to be aware of its presents. What is behind us the future cannot be seen and is liable to be forgotten readily. What is ahead of us the past cannot be forgotten so readily or ignored, for it is in front of our minds' eyes, always reminding us of its presence. The past is alive in us, so in more than a metaphorical sense the dead are alive - we are our history.

  

  Epeli Hau'ofa
  • History
  • Future
  • Memories

• I have, all my life long, been lying till noon; yet I tell all young men, and tell them with great sincerity, that nobody who does not rise early will ever do any good.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• It is the idea of 'People' to treat its material as if it were history and, what is more, as if it were the history of a happy period.

  

  George W. S. Trow
  • History
  • Idea
  • Material