Alice Walker Quotes

I just think cities are unnatural, basically. I know there are people who live happily in them, and I have cities that I love, too. But it's a disaster that we have moved so far from nature.

Alice Walker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 9, 1944

Topics

NatureLoveLivePeopleThinkKnow

Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.

John Witherspoon

BookYouNeverThroughBecauseRead

I like to go somewhere where I learn something I didn't know before, like the Dry Tortugas between Florida and Cuba.

Amy Tan

LearnGoKnowCubaFloridaDry

If a lending institution is faced with bids for a package of toxic assets that are less than the carrying value of those assets, the sale of those assets would trigger a further loss and reduce the underlying capital of the institution.

Roger Altman

ValueLossToxicInstitutionWould

I am not the same man I was 35 years ago. And I hope that five years and ten years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity.

Louis Farrakhan

GoodHopeHumbleManI AmPeople

I'm just a regular upper-middle-class guy who happens to be a billionaire.

David Tepper

GuyJustWhoHappensBillionaire

My one thing is I continue to be interested and want to be a student. I don't want to be a master. When I'm learning something, I'm in my element.

Chick Corea

LearningStudentWantMasterElement

Because of all the various people who've come in and out and brought along ideas, I've been on a learning curve throughout all these years. Of course, everyone that's been involved has influenced me as well. And I'm grateful for that.

Chris Squire

LearningGratefulPeopleMeIdeas

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach.

Anne Spencer

BeautifulBeachShellsCannot

I am just as comfortable in Britain and France as I am in America... but nowhere is perfect.

William Hurt

I AmAmericaPerfectComfortableAm

I design for the use of a building and the place and for the people who use it... the reputation for arrogance comes because when work is offered to me, I look whether I can find a genuine interest in quality.

Peter Zumthor

WorkQualityPeopleMeBuilding

I'm South American, and growing up in New York, I had the total stereotypical way of thinking of what Texas was about. I'm like, Texas. Big. Cows. Cowboys. Cowboy hats and cowboy boots. And barbeque.

Paula Garces

New YorkGrowing UpTexasThinking

We are so fortunate that our new and existing investors share our vision of making Hyperloop the world's first new mode of transportation in over a century. We initially targeted $50 million and ended up raising $85 million instead.

Shervin Pishevar

VisionWorldTransportationNewOver

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