Miesace Quotes & Sayings

I look for strong people. I don't like people who'll say yes to everything I might bring up. I want people who can argue and disagree and have a point of view that's reflected in the magazine. My dad believed in the cult of personality. He brought great writers and columnists to 'The Standard.' — Anna Wintour

And if (as I said before) what we are matters even more than what we do - if, indeed, what we do matters chiefly as evidence of what we are - then it follows that the change which I most need to undergo is a change that my own direct, voluntary efforts cannot bring about. And this applies to my good actions too. How many of them were done for the right motive? How many for fear of public opinion, or a desire to show off? How many from a sort of obstinacy or sense of superiority which, in different circumstances, might equally have led to some very bad act? But I cannot, by direct moral effort, give myself new motives. After the first few steps in the Christian life we realise that everything which really needs to be done in our souls can be done only by God. — C.S. Lewis

I seem to spend a minimum of eight hours a day in transit of some sort or another ... that's eight hours of your life gone. People always ask if I suffer from jet lag, but it's kinda become really normal for me ... Although the jet lag does become a factor and you're pretty much always tired. — Skrillex

People don't fear the wind until it fells a tree. Then, they say it's too much. — Sefi Atta

Democracy is disruptive ... there is no right in a democratic civil society to be free of disruption. — Naomi Wolf

You know, I spend most of my life turning things down. There's a lot of crap out there. — Bea Arthur

Take the pencil and write under my name, 'I forgive her. — Charles Dickens

I should have done target practice. — Valerie Solanas

I think the American people have become more reliant upon government and less reliant upon themselves and that they now tend to put security ahead of freedom, but I think freedom is the most important aspect of our lives. — Lyn Nofziger

People say if bees die out, the world would end, apparently. Now, I don't know if that's true, if that's some bee enthusiast who managed to write a good document, and people believe this. — Karl Pilkington

Tolling ... has a place. We're not going to toll our way to prosperity as a country. It is a tool that can be used in some instances, for example, to add capacity and to pay for that capacity privately. But I don't think it is a complete solution to how we deal with our surface transportation issues. — Anthony Foxx

She was so Southern that she cried tears that came straight from the Mississippi, and she always smelled faintly of cottonwood and peaches. — Sarah Addison Allen