Gwendolyn Ann Smith Quotes

#1. We can't ignore right-wing demagogues who insist that the word of the doctor who proclaims a child's sex at birth somehow holds more sway over the reality of the body than the word of the person who inhabits it. - Gwendolyn Ann Smith

Kate Bornstein

#2. If you reduce sculpture to the flat plane of the photograph, you're passing on only a residue of your concerns ... You're not only reducing the sculpture to a different scale for the purposes of consumption, but you're denying the real content of the work.

Richard Serra

#3. Commandments are loving counsel from a wise Father. Our understanding and concept of God as a loving and personal Heavenly Father allows us no other definition. He gives us commandments for one reason only-because he loves us and wants us to be happy.

Paul H. Dunn

#4. We are drawn to stories," he says in a soft voice, "and every scar carries one.

Marie Lu

#5. We all have a common goal, and we know it's all for our future good.

Marta Kristen

#6. I always change my words in everything I do. I make the language fit, because I know the character from the inside out. Often character actors are not in a position to do that, but I do it. I don't change any cue and I never change anybody else's lines, but I make my own words fit my mouth.

James Cromwell

#7. Life is just repeated attempts at trying to do better.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#8. I was taught to value hard work. At the end of day, I'm just Olivia.

Olivia Culpo

#9. [W]hen I told my dad why I was calling, he just said, 'Honey, you're so beautiful it doesn't matter what you wear.' I wondered how many dads in America were, at that very moment, giving their daughters the same useless advice mine was giving me.

Melissa Kantor

#10. I'm no cook. When I want lemon on chicken, I spray it with Pledge.

Joan Rivers

#11. We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%

Donald Knuth

#12. There are three kinds of companies: those who make things happen; those who watch things happen; and those who wonder what's happened. - Anonymous

Philip Kotler

#13. If your opponent has a conscience, then follow Gandhi and nonviolence. But if your enemy has no conscience like Hitler, then follow Bonhoeffer.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#14. The panorama-city is a 'theoretical' (that is, visual) simulacrum, in short a picture, whose condition of possibility is an oblivion and a misunderstanding of practices.

Michel De Certeau

#15. I've been acting since I could function. I got into acting to get attention as a child.

Tamsin Greig