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Nancy Gibbs Quotes

If you want to humble an empire, it makes sense to maim its cathedrals. They are symbols of its faith, and when they crumple and burn, it tells us we are not so powerful and we can't be safe.

Nancy Gibbs

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: January 25, 1960

Topics

Faith Humble You Powerful Burn Want

I think the key attributes for a good speaker are someone that's articulate and someone that puts a fair amount of humour into what they do.

Jo Brand

Good Think Key Someone Fair Humour

What makes me write is the rhythm of the world around me - the rhythms of the language, of course, but also of the land, the wind, the sky, other lives. Before the words comes the rhythm - that seems to me to be of the essence.

John Burnside

Sky Words Me Wind World Language

What's sort of interesting about the whole public relations disaster that is the Net, in some ways, is that the fundamentals are really good.

Meg Whitman

Good Technology Interesting Disaster

The hurried can become unhurried. But it will not happen by trying alone, nor will it happen instantly. You will have to enter a life of training.

John Ortberg

Life Alone Training Trying You Will

You know that if you come to WWE and want to maintain a certain level of success, you're going to be busy and gone a lot. It's part of the deal.

Matt Hardy

Success Busy You Know Want Gone

All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.

Sun Tzu

Men Victory Conquer Strategy See

If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression.

Toni Morrison

End Someone You Down Own Going

I'm into old-time music; I'm not very interested in modern, popular music at all. And if I'm really into some particular old-time musician, some fiddler or banjo player, I'm always dying of curiosity to see what they look like. So there's some connection between visual images and music.

Robert Crumb

Music Curiosity Connection Look See

My first tour sold out in Glasgow, and they were one of the loudest. I couldn't hear myself.

Rita Ora

Myself Loudest First Out Tour Hear

Mitt Romney has spent his entire life finding ways to solve problems.

Mitch McConnell

Life Problems Finding Ways His

There is an overarching comedy community, and then there are little comedy community pockets, almost like the way L.A. is structured. You have this grand scope of what Los Angeles is, but within that, there are all of these multi-functioning cities and neighborhoods.

Janet Varney

Community Comedy You Los Angeles Way

I distinctly remember watching Daniel Day Lewis in 'My Left Foot,' and my parents were discussing the fact that he's an actor. To me, it was a foreign concept. I was like, 'Someone is pretending to do that? That's so awesome!' After that, it just stayed in the back of my mind.

Dominique McElligott

Day Parents Mind Me Someone Back