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Nancy Pickard Quotes

I've known a lot of cowboys and a few cowgirls. They're, by and large, some of the smartest, funniest, most courteous, generous, and hardest-working people you'd ever want to know.

Nancy Pickard

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: September 19, 1945

Topics

People You Know Want Generous Most

Churchill is so particular. He's as different from the rest of the population of Britain as he is from me.

John Lithgow

Me Rest Population Different He

Only in the most unusual cases is it useful to determine whether a book is good or bad; for it is just as rare for it to be one or the other. It is usually both.

Robert Musil

Good Book Bad Rare Unusual Just

I do love the way the brain looks. I love the way it's shaped.

Ann McKee

Two Brains Alike Faces Different

I don't generally believe in people being knighted.

Stephen Frears

People Believe Being Generally

There's something about being in front of a live audience that's fun. It's a really interesting, very electric, very alive, and intense experience, and you can't get it anywhere else. And I've been doing it since I was 23, so it's part of my being - it's part of my fabric as a person.

Steven Wright

Live Experience Fun Interesting You

I have great emotion every time I go on stage. Nothing in life gives me the same satisfaction that my profession gives me.

Jose Carreras

Life Great Time Me Satisfaction Go

The scary thing is a dramatic erosion of American position in the world - its economic, military position, as well as America's influence. Obama is not the man at the wheel desperately trying to conserve American power, influence and wealth. For ideological reasons, he wants the slipping to continue. He's actually the architect of it.

Dinesh D'Souza

Power Man Influence World American

I grew up completely alone but with all the comforts of knowing I had a cushioning family structure around me - and yet I could free myself from it.

Ali Smith

Family Alone Myself Me Free Knowing

The average member of the public thinks of 'business' as an impersonal corporate entity owned by the very rich and managed by overpaid executives. There is an almost total failure to appreciate that 'business' actually embraces - in one way or another - most Americans.

Lewis F. Powell, Jr.

Failure Business Rich Appreciate Way

All companies incur expenses, some of which are fixed and bear no relation to sales volumes. In this way, profits can grow at a faster rate than sales.

Li Lu

Grow Way Bear Sales Expenses Faster

The revision of the books of Judges, Samuel, and Kings, undertaken towards the end of the Babylonian exile, a revision much more thorough than is commonly assumed, condemns as heretical the whole age of the Kings.

Julius Wellhausen

Age End Kings Judges More Whole

My dad played football, too, in the former Yugoslavia.

Granit Xhaka

Football Played Too Yugoslavia Dad