Wallace Stegner Quotes

Thanks to the growing strength of environmental organizations, there will always be some back country to provide us with a touch of wonder and a breath of fresh air.

Wallace Stegner

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• During the morning rush hour on March 20, 1995, the Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo placed packages on five subway trains converging on Tokyo's central station. When punctured, the packages spread vaporized Sarin through the subway cars and then into the stations as the trains pulled in.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Morning
  • Japanese
  • March

• I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • Me
  • Attention
  • Brother

• I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Men
  • Women
  • Creativity

• I can sing in front of people. I can go on a TV show, live, and not feel like I'm going to throw up.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• The Wonder Woman that you see in 'Batman v Superman' is a woman who has been around, and she's very experienced. She understands a lot about man. Whereas, in the standalone movie, we are telling the grown-up story, Diana becoming Wonder Woman, and this was a story that was never told before.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Up
  • She
  • Movie

• I would love to do some theater.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Love
  • Theater
  • Some

• I don't believe that intelligence can be reduced to a number, frankly. But I can see how doing exactly that produces a useful sorting mechanism in our society in order to separate children into categories of promising and doomed. The tests seem arbitrary and without real scientific value and yet have lasting consequences.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Believe
  • Children
  • Real

• I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Years
  • Old
  • Two

• I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.

  

  Yann Tiersen
  • Play
  • Boring
  • Reaction

• I think I am at my best when my hair is short. It's easier to take care of and more of who I am. Women are conditioned to think we need long hair.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Long
  • Women
  • Best

• I write what I'd like to read and just hope that, along the way, others might like to read them, too.

  

  Kate Morton
  • Hope
  • Way
  • Others

• Never eat spinach just before going on the air.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Never
  • Air
  • Before

• If you're looking for immediate rewards, you're only looking for the money.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Money
  • You
  • Looking

• My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.

  

  Patrick Schwarzenegger
  • Up
  • Live
  • Mother

• If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don't care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Life
  • Age
  • Care

• I am an old geezer: a grandpa kind of a guy. I was born October 19, 1931. I have gray hair, a beard, and a little pot belly. I have two children who are over 30 years old and a sweet little granddaughter who is 11 years old.

  

  Ed Emberley
  • Children
  • Guy
  • Hair

• There is no such thing as a weekend for me when I'm at home on my ranch in Oregon.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • Home
  • Weekend
  • Ranch

• If you are being weird or silly you can be excused because you are just playing a character.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Character
  • You
  • Weird

• The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Real
  • War
  • Peace

• In our world, where hundreds of things distract us from God, we have to intentionally and consistently remind ourselves of Him.

  

  Francis Chan
  • World
  • Consistently

• I've always overworked in the weight room. I love working with weights. I knew they'd give me the strength I needed.

  

  Florence Griffith Joyner
  • Working
  • Strength
  • Give

• Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Painting
  • Environmental

• If you visit American city, You will find it very pretty. Just two things of which you must beware: Don't drink the water and don't breathe the air. Pollution, pollution, They got smog and sewage and mud. Turn on your tap and get hot and cold running crud. See the halibuts and the sturgeons Being wiped out by detergents. Fish gotta swim and birds gotta fly, But they don't last long if they try. Pollution, pollution, You can use the latest toothpaste, And then rinse your mouth with industrial waste.

  

  Tom Lehrer
  • Trying
  • Water
  • Cold

• Thanks to the growing strength of environmental organizations, there will always be some back country to provide us with a touch of wonder and a breath of fresh air.

  

  Wallace Stegner
  • Strength
  • Environmental
  • Organizations