Quotes About Standish

#1. The modesty and diffidence that the penniless, unemployed Standish had brought aboard were now no longer to be seen; and the assurance of a monthly income and a settled position had developed a displeasing and often didactic loquacity. He was also, of course, incompetent.

Patrick O'Brian

#2. For my father
John Standish Fforde
1920-2000
Who never knew I was to be published but would have been most proud nonetheless
and not a little surprised.

Jasper Fforde

#3. There are train-track thinkers, then there's you, Standish, a breeze in the park of imagination.

Sally Gardner

#4. We have need to be as sturdy pioneers still as Miles Standish, or Church, or Lovewell. We are to follow on another trail, it is true, but one as convenient for ambushes. What if the Indians are exterminated, are not savages as grim prowling about the clearings today?

Henry David Thoreau

#5. In those days I was terrible at athletics and never made a team, but quite easily led my class in academics.

William Standish Knowles

#6. Fire and light compete today in the East. But there is a lot of green firewood in this fire, and there is a lot of smoke in that light.

Ameen Rihani

#7. i see poets riding the red winds unchecked by the borders of time, wandering with light feet over the land mines and trip wires, barbed and barbarian, unfettered through the barriers that curtail the flows of life, poets pelting the halting barriers which strangle everyone everywhere.

Peter Standish Evans

#8. In those days industry would hire any chemist that could breathe.

William Standish Knowles

#9. If you run from me, I will chase you, and I'll find you ...

Jeaniene Frost

#10. She still held back her tears, as if subjecting herself to some terrible endurance test.

Carsten Jensen

#11. Romance isn't always about big gestures though,' Harry said. 'Sometimes it's the words the man finds or the effort that he has gone to. It doesn't have to be something expensive.

Holly Martin

#12. War is a terrible trade. But when the cause is just, the smell of gunpowder is sweet.

Myles Standish

#13. I love feeding off the audience, and to me, what's the point if you're not going to think of the fans. Anyone can play music in their house, but you put it out because you want interact with your fans. And, as an artist, you get so much from your fans.

Dido Armstrong

#14. My family gave me the best in education.

William Standish Knowles

#15. Later in the fifties I got involved in kinetic studies using my long forgotten math background.

William Standish Knowles

#16. I was one who liked to work with my hands as well as my brain.

William Standish Knowles

#17. I was born in Taunton, Massachusetts on June 1, 1917, but I actually grew up in nearby New Bedford.

William Standish Knowles

#18. Right mindfulness does not simply mean being aware; it is like creating a work of art. You can therefore trust what you are doing; you are not threatened by anything. You have room to dance in the space, and this makes it a creative situation. The space is open to you.

Chogyam Trungpa

#19. I was particularly good at math and science.

William Standish Knowles

#20. Beloved mother and wife. Without you, all the light is gone.

Ali Standish

#21. The harm which is done by credulity in a man is not confined to the fostering of a credulous character in others, and consequent support of false beliefs.

William Kingdon Clifford

#22. Unless we encounter God, speculating about God becomes nothing more than abstract conjecture and theorizing that has little impact on daily life.

N Graham Standish

#23. At this point I was strongly advised that I was too young socially to go to college so I took a second senior year at Andover, another boarding school.

William Standish Knowles

#24. At Harvard I majored in chemistry with a strong inclination toward math.

William Standish Knowles

#25. Maybe 90 percent of the time it looks like I'm not having a good time.

Kanye West

#26. By this Yoshida explains that 'when we look at the actual conditions of this world through the camera's lens, we must deny the random movements of the human eye and restrain the eye's constant movements in order to focus on one point.

Isolde Standish

#27. God is the source of all creativity. You can be creative only when you are EN RAPPORT with God.

Rajneesh

#28. To my father, business was the highest calling, but to my mother, medicine was the top profession.

William Standish Knowles

#29. I can only speak for myself and my own music, because that is what I am most familiar with, and I write about things that I am living or experiencing.

Laura Bell Bundy

#30. It is surrounded by a thin flat ring, inclined to the ecliptic, and nowhere touches the body of the planet.

Christiaan Huygens

#31. When I play a game, I want to play, not necessarily laugh. If you try to make me laugh at the expense of interactivity, then you've just created another funny game that isn't very fun. The videogame medium itself is a terrible place for complicated humor, drama, and character development.

Doug TenNapel

#32. My family background was heavily slanted toward business and seafaring matters.

William Standish Knowles

#33. I can't think of any relatives that ever went into science.

William Standish Knowles

#34. We never know where life is going to lead, Ethan. What so many small decisions are going to add up to.

Ali Standish

#35. I've met so many leaders who realize that telling your colleagues something that is on your mind is so much easier than keeping it in. Sometimes the things we make up in our heads are not nearly as big a deal as we think.

Douglas Conant

#36. At the time my dog had a fungus on her chest that wouldn't heal and resisted treatment. I made an ointment with our product and it cleared up in two days. She lived to 17 years.

William Standish Knowles

#37. I'll never forget the fall colors on the Berkshires.

William Standish Knowles

#38. How we forgive narrowness of mind, when it accompanies largeness of heart. Yet no breadth of intellect exonerates want of feeling.

Graham Swift

#39. Why, Jesus Christ, Ma, they comes a time when the on'y way a fella can keep his decency is by takin' a sock at a cop.

John Steinbeck