Lois Wyse Quotes

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• We filmed one scene on the beach and there was definitely weird energy around, and we were followed around by a white owl to several different locations, and little things like that, or certain mishaps would happen and you'd have to wonder what that was about.

  

  Rachel True
  • Different
  • Energy
  • Wonder

• It is part of my responsibility as a bridge builder to speak the truth about what's great about America, what we've done right, and what our less glorious moments. And many people feel that the Iraq adventure, for example, has been one of our less glorious moments.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • People
  • Great
  • Done

• I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Learning
  • Survive
  • Adult

• Follow me around. I don't care. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They'd be very bored.

  

  Gary Hart
  • Me
  • Care
  • Bored

• I get homesick.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Get
  • Homesick

• When I saw Arnold say that he didn't need a union, because people in his position don't need it, I thought, this is a very naive way to present yourself. It's also kinda dumb about making movies. It doesn't realize how the union movement even helps the star.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • People
  • Present
  • Star

• No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.

  

  Dana Boente
  • Law
  • Person
  • Above

• At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.

  

  F. L. Lucas
  • Long
  • History
  • Grace

• I like 'The Three Musketeers.' I like those kind of cool things where they were having a robe and a sword.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Kind
  • Cool
  • Sword

• I thought of learning cinematography, so I assisted a cinematographer for an ad.

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
  • Learning
  • Thought

• I'm a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I'm a spiritual person as well.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Spiritual
  • Positive
  • Driven

• The thing about the Islamic situation is we don't have a church. We don't have an ordained priesthood, which makes it a little complicated. But we do have a tradition of scholarship, and rules of scholarship. It's very much like any field of knowledge.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Knowledge
  • Church
  • Rules

• The power of forgiveness is huge; it is really big, and it can save this world.

  

  Immaculee Ilibagiza
  • World
  • Power
  • Forgiveness

• The Touchables, whether they are vegetarians or flesh-eaters, are united in their objection to eat cow's flesh. As against them stand the Untouchables, who eat cow's flesh without compunction and as a matter of course and habit.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Habit
  • Stand
  • Cow

• It wasn't not being famous any more, or even not being a recording artist. It was having nobody who needed me, no phones ringing, nothing to do. Because I'm still too young to do nothing. I was only 24 when all that happened. Now, at 40, I feel I've got more to give than I ever have.

  

  Gary Barlow Take That
  • Me
  • Artist
  • Famous

• We have these old fashioned ideas. For instance, here in America, we talk about democracy - but we don't have a democracy. There are elements of a democracy.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • America
  • Ideas
  • Democracy

• I think it's good to conquer the fears.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Good
  • Think
  • Conquer

• The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Life
  • Great
  • Service

• As a visible and outspoken trans woman myself, I know that it's rare not to have your trans-ness lead the way for you in public spaces.

  

  Janet Mock

• A bad or mediocre meal is more than just an unpleasant taste, it is an unnecessary negation of one of life's pleasures - a wasted chance to refine our palates, learn about the world, and share a rewarding experience.

  

  Tyler Cowen
  • Life
  • World
  • Experience

• The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write.

  

  Jose Saramago
  • Life

• Believing that the power to destroy belongs to the Creator alone I affirm... that any theory which, when carried out, demands the annihilation of force, is necessarily erroneous.

  

  James Prescott Joule
  • Power
  • Alone

• It's almost as if creativity is dead. The visual power of advertising was everywhere - now it's basically gone.

  

  George Lois
  • Power
  • Creativity

• Power never takes two weeks off. Power takes long weekends.

  

  Lois Wyse
  • Long
  • Power
  • Week