George Westinghouse Quotes

They could have done it better with an axe.

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• When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.

  

  Maj Sjowall
  • Life
  • Live
  • Children

• I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats.

  

  Irving Layton
  • Genius
  • Poems
  • Shakespeare

• I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Like
  • Him
  • Often

• If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children.

  

  Barry McCaffrey
  • Children
  • War
  • Fight

• People say, 'You should let your hair out; you shouldn't be oppressed - you're not in Malaysia anymore. You should show your curves and be proud of it.' But I am proud - it's my choice to cover up my body. I'm not oppressed - I'm free.

  

  Yuna
  • Free
  • Proud
  • Choice

• I'm kind of lax about hair in general. I stopped shaving my armpits in part to experiment with pheromones, but also because I just didn't feel like shaving them anymore.

  

  Callie Hernandez
  • Kind
  • Hair
  • Feel

• It doesn't matter if you look different. You're still the same as everybody else because you have the same dream.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Different
  • Dream
  • Look

• I go to the gym in the morning to warm up, and then I go to the mountain and train. Then I come home and go to the gym again to recover. But on travel days, you get pretty much no physical exertion.

  

  Hannah Kearney
  • Up
  • Home
  • Pretty

• It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Impossible
  • Conversation

• I love a lot of music that's considered folk music, but I also love a lot of music that's considered punk or considered rap. I don't mind being called a folk singer. But it seems a bit limiting. I want to be able to write whatever kind of song I want.

  

  Langhorne Slim
  • Music
  • Song
  • Write

• I love India.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Love
  • I Love
  • India

• I love Paul Giamatti - God, that man is like a walking Chekhov. His connection to humanity is unbelievable, and those feelings of low self-esteem - the way that all comes together on the screen? Delicious.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • God
  • Love
  • Together

• Nobody ever wins by the cavalry coming to rescue you. It isn't a question of you're happy if you get married, or you get thin, or you get rich, because I've known lots of thin, rich, married people who are absolutely miserable.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • People
  • Happy
  • Question

• Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Believe
  • Never
  • Politics

• I quit wrestling in 2006 because I just got lost. My mom didn't want me wrestling. I was wondering if I was going to make it in wrestling; I got injured in a match. I was 19. I was away from home, living in Florida, and I just got lost. I couldn't face it, so I stepped away.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Lost
  • Face
  • Wrestling

• So sometime the expectation of the female by a high expectation. Because peoples think that female were weak in term of, like, of the physically and compared to the men.

  

  Yingluck Shinawatra
  • Men
  • High
  • Think

• I'm all about the supplements. I take fish oil every single day, as well as vitamin D, magnesium, B complex, vitamin C.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Single
  • Day
  • Fish

• I grew up on a wide range of stuff. OutKast, they been around for over 20 years, and some of the L.A. cats like Defari, Dilated Peoples and Likwit Crew. I was always going to these shows and catching the KRS-One tennis ball, as he would throw those out, EPMD. I could go on and on.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Up
  • Years
  • Tennis

• We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.

  

  Yves Saint Laurent
  • Never
  • Elegance
  • Snobbery

• Those who really desire to attain an independence, have only set their minds upon it, and adopt the proper means, as they do in regard to any other object which they wish to accomplish, and the thing is easily done.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Mind
  • Done
  • Desire

• I'd always been a huge fan of Stephen Schwartz.

  

  Brian Stokes Mitchell

• The public needs art, and it is the responsibility of a ’self-proclaimed artist’ to realize the public needs art, and not to make bourgeois art for the few and ignore the masses. … I am interested in making art to be experienced and explored by as many individuals as possible with as many different individual ideas about the given piece with no final meaning attached. The viewer creates the reality, the meaning, the conception of the piece. I am merely a middleman trying to bring ideas together.

  

  Keith Haring
  • Different
  • Trying
  • Art

• I have hundreds and hundreds of songs waiting to get on albums, but I don't know about the three-month radio tours and if I'll be interested in that. I haven't figured it out, but I will definitely be doing music, whether it is independent or with a major record label.

  

  Jewel Kilcher
  • Music
  • Waiting
  • Independent

• They could have done it better with an axe.

  

  George Westinghouse
  • Done
  • Better
  • Axe