Home
Topics
Authors
:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

Douglas Tompkins Quotes

I just realized at least what I was doing was making a lot of stuff that nobody needed and pushing a consumerist society. So I went to do something else.

Douglas Tompkins

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: american
Birth: March 20, 1943 - December 8, 2015

Topics

Society Doing Nobody Something Stuff

The goal of the moderator is to illuminate the views of the candidates on the issues that matter the most to voters, and you don't need to be on the side of the party to do that.

John Dickerson

You Goal Party Matter Need Side

I was a union member in my youth as well and I went on strike, and I don't think it solved anything. It only made the situation worse for everyone involved.

Michael Gove

Youth Think Situation Strike Well

I think my view is that whenever you project into the future you're never likely to be accurate in the details, or the paraphernalia and style. It's in the spirit of it.

Stephen Fry

Future Style Think Details View You

There is no greater evil than anarchy.

Sophocles

Evil Anarchy Greater Than

I aspire to make a record that sounds better 10 listens in than it does after two, and still, at 50 listens, you're picking out things that add a depth and a thoughtfulness to it; there's enough in there that you can still be extracting pieces out of it.

Trent Reznor

Better Enough You Out Aspire Depth

Once I was embraced by gay culture, I finally started to feel I was fitting in. I was understood by those people in a way I had never predicted or courted.

Roisin Murphy

Culture People Feel Gay Way Never

Practice, work hard, and give it everything you have.

Dizzy Dean

Work Practice Work Hard You Hard

I'd lived in Portland on and off for a decade before I'd even heard of Vanport. It was this town of 20,000 people that washed away from north Portland.

Chelsea Cain

People Decade Portland Lived Off

My mother was the prettiest woman in the town. He was a bit older than her. They made me. And he split.

Pierce Brosnan

Mother Woman Me Her Split Made

Western Mosul is the historic heart of one of the oldest cities in the world. Its narrow streets and alleyways are impassable for armored vehicles.

Peter Bergen

Heart World Streets Vehicles Narrow

I first heard about 'Stranger Things' from people dressed as the characters coming up to me at conventions saying, 'Hey, you have to see this show. It's 'Goonies.'

Sean Astin

People Me Saying You Dressed See

I write all year long, and at the end of the year I pull these forty or fifty things out and say, 'Which of these things do I want to record?'

Toby Keith

End Year Long Say Want Write