Wallace Stegner Quotes
The national park idea, the best idea we ever had, was inevitable as soon as Americans learned to confront the wild continent not with fear and cupidity but with delight, wonder, and awe.
Wallace Stegner
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I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.
Nancy Sinatra
When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
Yo-Yo Ma
I just feel so flattered, because the cosplayers really make sure every detail is there. I don't think I've ever cosplayed a character before, but if I were to, I'd probably go as a Klingon from 'Star Trek.'
Karen Gillan
I was being groomed to be a tennis player for sure. My grandparents and parents realised I had a natural athletic ability and if I was forced to do it, I could probably do well. But all I wanted was to play pretend.
Dakota Fanning
Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
Pat Barker
Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
Paracelsus
I love to get a massage but I'm quite a baby with it. I don't like them too hard or anyone walking on me or anything. When it's good, it's the best thing ever. When it's bad, it's an hour of absolute agony.
Lara Stone
If there are three words that need to be used more in American journalism, commentary, politics, personal life... it's the magic words 'I don't know.'
P. J. O'Rourke
I will openly admit that I've never really followed hockey. Given my New England upbringing, I have always adhered to the Celtics, Patriots, Red Sox, Bruins mantra of professional sports fandom, but hockey was definitely the lowest sport on the totem pole - even when the Bruins won the Stanley Cup.
Rachel Nichols
I don't believe that employers should have access to an employee's private passwords, including Facebook.
Larry Bucshon
For me retiring wasn't hard once I knew that that was the decision I was going to make.
Gabriela Sabatini
I love seeing tattoos on 60-year-olds who have had them for 40 years.
Urs Fischer
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
Zelda Fitzgerald
A true account of the actual is the rarest poetry, for common sense always takes a hasty and superficial view.
Henry David Thoreau
For all its problems, I found South Africa a beautiful country, interesting and inspiring.
David Harewood
If you have to be a one-hit wonder, then 'San Francisco' is the one to have.
Scott McKenzie
Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.
C. S. Lewis
The national park idea, the best idea we ever had, was inevitable as soon as Americans learned to confront the wild continent not with fear and cupidity but with delight, wonder, and awe.
Wallace Stegner
