Willis Polk Quotes

To form our taste, we must neither depreciate nor imitate, but we should understand and originate.

Willis Polk

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: architect
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 3, 1867 - September 10, 1924

Topics

UnderstandTasteMustOurImitate

My greatest moment as a jock occurred when I was 14 and playing punch ball in front of my house on Albemarle Road near East 17th Street in Brooklyn. I ran back, back for a ball, and it fell in my hands. I didn't even see it. Everyone congratulated me on the catch, and I never told them how it really happened.

Jerry Reinsdorf

MomentMeRoadHandsHouseBrooklyn

What an audience decides about where certain characters come from is really up to them.

Joel Edgerton

AudienceUpWhereComeCharacters

Compared to the challenges or raising an autistic child, weightlifting is a relief.

Melanie Roach

ChildChallengesReliefRaising

My musical taste is somewhat dated - I mean, freeze frame, go back 60 years, and you're in my comfort zone.

Robert Rinder

Comfort ZoneYouBackComfortGo

My expertise is running businesses.

Amit Bhatia

ExpertiseRunningBusinesses

I believe in international justice. I believe it's important that you don't just turn the page without people being held to account.

Amal Clooney

JusticePeopleBelieveYouImportant

If U.S. focuses on truth and justice, we'll realize that Israel has been there for 3,000 years - the same language, the same people, the same culture for 3,000 years - and it's always astonishing to me that we somehow now think that they're the occupiers.

Trent Franks

TruthJusticeCulturePeopleMeNow

I'm just a very impatient person. It's always something that I'm working on, and just staying interested in the fight game is the biggest challenge for me. As long as I'm interested and I have an incentive to stay interested, then I'm unbeatable.

Rose Namajunas

ChallengeFightMeGameLongPerson

You can be drinking the wine today, but picking the grapes tomorrow.

Jonathan Tucker

TodayTomorrowWineYouGrapes

I think when things get hard with your family, it's really easy to want to isolate yourself. The world is so harsh, so when stuff happens outside, you want to go to your family, but when stuff happens inside your family, you sort of start to feel like, 'I'm alone. There is no place I can go to where just nothing will happen to me.'

Dove Cameron

FamilyAloneYourselfWorldStart

Measures of self-government and a school council, especially for such young children, were a great innovation.

Dora Russell

InnovationChildrenGreatSchool

I've raised three kids: my wife and I have three kids. I've observed through direct contact the adults they are now is partially the product of where they came from and what we did. With them growing up, but partially how they were wired at birth.

Chris Hadfield

WifeGrowing UpGrowingNowThree

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