George Will Quotes

All children find chaos congenial. Any unruliness, even by nature, advances the child's program of subverting authority.

George Will

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• I wanted to identify that the black experience is American experience.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Experience
  • American
  • Black

• Painting bodies with the patterns of Kusama's hallucinations obliterated their individual selves and returned them to the infinite universe.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Universe
  • Painting
  • Patterns

• Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Music
  • Know
  • Jazz

• While I was serving in the Florida Senate, American soldiers were being killed in Iraq, a war we should have never started, and often by Iranian proxies and their improvised explosive devices.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • American
  • War
  • Soldiers

• It's very possible that advertising business models will simply never do as well on mobile devices as those oriented around transactions.

  

  Patrick Collison
  • Business
  • Will
  • Advertising

• Yidaki didgeridoo has been used in every part of Australian regional culture, all around the country. It's become a message stick for the survival of those people, for aboriginal people and aboriginal culture.

  

  Xavier Rudd
  • People
  • Country
  • Culture

• Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Life
  • Saved
  • Ours

• I went out to Mount Kilimanjaro, which I thought was very beautiful, but there were a lot of people there.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Thought

• Every day there are homeowners in California who will either receive relief so they can stay in their home, or will be in the foreclosure process and potentially lose their home. And that always weighed heavily on my mind.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Mind
  • Home
  • Day

• I'm originally from Dallas, Texas, where Bonnie and Clyde were from, so when I was a little kid, my grandfather used to drive me past the Barrow Filling Station. At my elementary school, there was a barn outside that they used to say was a Bonnie and Clyde hangout.

  

  Lane Garrison
  • School
  • Past
  • Texas

• My relationship with my body has changed. I used to consider it as a servant who should obey, function, give pleasure. In sickness, you realise that you are not the boss. It is the other way around.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Relationship
  • Body
  • Boss

• One is actually the democracy here, you know, people are, people assume that this election means that there is democracy in Pakistan. There is no democracy.

  

  Imran Khan
  • People
  • Democracy
  • Election

• The 1980s will seem like a walk in the park when compared to new global challenges, where annual productivity increases of 6% may not be enough. A combination of software, brains, and running harder will be needed to bring that percentage up to 8% or 9%.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Up
  • May
  • Running

• I knew that if I wanted to be all I could be, I would have to go to the U.S. It took three years to get the accent right.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Years
  • Right
  • Three

• I have a theory that if you've got the kind of parents who want to send you to boarding school, you're probably better off at boarding school.

  

  Wendy Cope
  • School
  • Parents
  • Better

• Struggle is strengthening. Battling with evil gives us the power to battle evil even more.

  

  Ossie Davis
  • Power
  • Evil
  • Struggle

• This SimChuck is one suave bastard.

  

  Chuck Klosterman

• We can't be The Beatles. I can't shine their shoes. I can't sing as well as Paul or John. I can't write those kind of songs. But they would die in my armour and my eight-inch platform heels, and Paul can't spit fire, so there you have it.

  

  Gene Klein Kiss
  • Die
  • Fire
  • Shoes

• I don't know how Frank presented the old Mothers, since I never read the book. There might be some opinions on what he said, but I - or anyone else - could not make any corrections to anything Frank did.

  

  James Carl Inkanish, Jr.
  • Book

• You still have Top 40 radio now, but it's 40 different stations. There aren't many hits that everybody knows, and there aren't many real superstars.

  

  Weird Al Yankovic
  • Different
  • Real

• It's the biggest party in the world, and you have to keep the whole thing percolating, which is difficult because a lot of awards most people don't care about.

  

  Bruce Vilanch
  • People
  • World
  • Party

• Bob Dole. He's like the neighbors' Labrador retriever your dad used to curse for all that barking, all that darn digging in your mom's tulip bed, and now look, you live next door to a godforsaken pack of teeth-baring rabid Pomeranians, and, good golly, Bob Dole!

  

  Jeanne Marie Laskas
  • Good
  • Live
  • Dad

• Growing up, I would have to watch the other children and learn from my mistakes. I would have to push myself to overcome the things most people don't have to think about. Brushing my teeth was very difficult because of the noise of the brush.

  

  Daniel Tammet
  • People
  • Up
  • Children

• All children find chaos congenial. Any unruliness, even by nature, advances the child's program of subverting authority.

  

  George Will
  • Children
  • Chaos
  • Authority