Colleen Atwood Quotes
I really don't over-theorize about design. I'd rather feel it than talk it to death. A lot happens as you unroll the design.
Quotes to Explore
-
Track and field was very big when I was growing up.
-
My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
-
My vision of the border with Mexico is that a truck from the United States going into Mexico and a truck coming from Mexico into the United States will pass each other at the border going 60 miles an hour. Yes, we should have open borders.
-
You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask.
-
I would love to explore film seeing as I have prominently been on television. It would be nice to change it up and focus on film a little bit.
-
Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
-
It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.
-
The polls and the pundits and the media seem to talk to each other. It's sort of like an echo chamber.
-
I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?
-
I always wake up 10 minutes before I have to be anywhere.
-
I'm not very technically minded. I mean, I don't know how to do e-mail on computers.
-
I'm not a wimpy kid at all. I don't care what other people think - I only care what I think about myself.
-
When my father came over here penniless with $100 sewn into his underwear, thank God some well-meaning liberal didn't come put his arm around him and say, 'Let me take care of you.'
-
I have to say I wasn't a huge fan of 'Star Wars', and I'm still not, really, but you have to acknowledge that there's a huge fan base for it, and these people are really sweet. You can't stereotype a 'Star Wars' fan.
-
'Vogue' is a very specific world. You are 'Vogue,' or not 'Vogue.'
-
The Enron scandal is worthy of the highest level of scrutiny, both because of the enormity of the crimes that may have been committed and because of what the largest bankruptcy in American history has already begun to reveal about the weaknesses in our nation's corporate structures and regulatory oversight.
-
We watch so much film, calling up pitch by pitch, count by count in order to spot tendencies. Technology is a big part of how I get ready for a game. What's funny is a lot of the NFL guys say they study the 'Madden' game; that's how they learn to read offenses and defenses.
-
Uncertainty doesn't make life worth living, quite, but it does make striving and gambling worth attempting.
-
As a species, we're not only wired to choose today over tomorrow, but we hate to feel like we're losing out on something. The bottom line is, if we feel like we're losing something we avoid it, we won't do it. That's why so many people don't save and invest. Saving sounds like you're giving something up, you're losing something today. But you're not.
-
Even those who call themselves 'intimate' know very little about each other - hardly ever know just how a sorrow is felt, and hurt each other by their very attempts at sympathy or consolation. We can bear no hand on our bruises.
-
We have a system which, though far from perfect, is strong with idealism. It gives elbow room for men of all races and all beliefs. It is vital and dynamic. And it works. We have the means of shaping the world in our pattern. If we do, freedom will be assured for all men. The decision is in the hands of this generation. It is a challenge to our political competence. For Western civilization it is the greatest challenge of all time.
-
Even one heatstroke death is one too many because every death caused by leaving a child unattended in a hot car is 100 percent avoidable.
-
For a married woman to flirt is a sin.
-
I really don't over-theorize about design. I'd rather feel it than talk it to death. A lot happens as you unroll the design.
