Kelly Wearstler Quotes
I definitely start early and keep items in mind throughout the year for key people in my life. I love wrapping everyone's gifts in hand-painted wallpaper sheets, which gives the gift extra love.
Quotes to Explore
-
The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.
-
I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.
-
Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
-
Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.
-
The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.
-
There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
-
My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.
-
Identify your niche and dominate it. And when I say dominate, I just mean work harder than anyone else could possibly work at it.
-
I never thought of having cancer as something that was unfair. I just braced myself and tried to get through it.
-
I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
-
To be honest, I enjoy all different types of films and experiences.
-
When girls bully, it's very subtle, and you can't define it. At least with boys, the bullying is usually explicit, and you can deal with it. It's psychological with girls.
-
I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
-
A new era of responsibility is here.
-
I do seem to have a lot of family secrets in my novels. I guess I'm one of those writers who is often writing about the same sort of themes, but taking different angles on them.
-
I've worked with David Lynch since I was 17, and working with him is home and family; being around Alexander Payne is home and family, Jonathan Demme. There are directors... Robert Altman, Paul Thomas Anderson... They are directors where I create homes.
-
What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.
-
If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
-
I didn't go to law school to become a lawyer, per se - let's just say I was leaning in to some strong suggestions from my parents - but my nebulous goals of someday becoming a writer were just that, nebulous.
-
The United States is not longer going to be the world's policemen and our days of determining you're in or you're out around the world no matter what the level of direct American interest or connection are going to be very limited. Increasingly, Africa will be doing that.
-
Where human lives are concerned, time is always short, yet the world has witnessed the vast resources that governments can draw upon to rescue financial institutions deemed 'too big to fail.'
-
Posh people blow my mind. Apart from empathy, they're good at everything - true survivalists.
-
One of the fastest ways to build the clean energy economy is to allow more people to benefit from it.
-
I definitely start early and keep items in mind throughout the year for key people in my life. I love wrapping everyone's gifts in hand-painted wallpaper sheets, which gives the gift extra love.
