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John Wanamaker Quotes

Keep up the old standards, and day by day raise them higher.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: american
Birth: July 11, 1838 - December 12, 1922

Topics

Day Old Standards Up Keep Raise

I've found that in fiction - and this is just the kind of writer I am - I can't really work from an outline. I have a vague idea of the characters at the beginning of the book, and then I have a vague idea of whatever the end of the book will be, but I can't approach creative nonfiction like that.

Work Beginning Creative I Am Book

I have the Internet, but the first that happens with it is my machine will crash. I get by when it's operating. What would I know about updating?

Internet Know Will First Get Would

Well, let me tell you, any conservative that's unhappy with George Bush warms my heart, in any way that they can wake up and smell the coffee would be really great.

Heart Great Coffee Me Wake Up You

I grew up in a very small, rural country town, and we didn't really have 'the arts.'

Small Country Up Rural Arts Town

A small foot in China, no different from a tiny waist in Victorian England, represented the height of female refinement. For families with marriageable daughters, foot size translated into its own form of currency and a means of achieving upward mobility. The most desirable bride possessed a three-inch foot, known as a 'golden lotus.'

Small Bride Achieving Golden Height

I am thankful to my fans and producers that I am on my toes all the time to do better. The day you feel you have achieved it all or you are something, then you are gone, and that thought never came to me.

Thankful Time Day I Am Me Better

I just can't seem to write songs about peace and love. Yeah right, how do you get that?

Love Peace You Write Right Seem

If your city's being populated by highly educated twentysomethings with choices, you're probably going to succeed.

City Succeed Choices You Educated

Both the United States and the world economy have already reached - and surpassed - their sustainable physical limits. Ground water is being drawn down, soils eroded, forests cut faster than they grow, fish caught faster than they reproduce, non-renewable fossil fuels burnt without developing substitutes.

Donella Meadows

Water World Limits Grow Fish Down

Compassion is the key to living outside the confines of your lower self.

Compassion Key Self Living Outside

I like being able to, you know, pack up and leave the country and hop on a plane and go wherever I want and stay wherever and bring my friends with me and bring my family on vacation. That's amazing.

Chelsea Handler

Family Vacation Amazing Me Friends

Life is like riding a bicycle: you don't fall off unless you stop pedaling.

Life Bicycle You Fall Stop Riding

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