Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Woodcock

Structures are fine as long as they are controlled by the people who actually work within the structures, but they're dicey even there.

George Woodcock

I suppose I'm led to do so by the fact of what happened to my contemporaries - people whom I've admired, people who I thought were ten times better than me when I was in my twenties and early thirties. I may have been right.

George Woodcock

When you act dramatically in that way it often has a consequence that is very negative.

George Woodcock

My split with the university was over the fact that I had become involved with helping Tibetans in India.

George Woodcock

It even has the same phraseology as the English orders of knighthood, companions and this sort of thing.

George Woodcock

I like to move among painters, mathematicians, psychologists, people who can tell me something.

George Woodcock

Now I am a writer who can command fairly good payments from magazines with large circulations, I very often refuse to write for them and still write sometimes for small magazines for nothing.

Douglas Coupland

You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog.

George Woodcock

I suppose, a person for whom freedom is the most important thing - intellectual freedom and, as far as possible, physical freedom.

Nikki Giovanni

Kevin Powell is pushing to bring, as he has so brilliantly done before, the voices of his generation: the concerns, the cares, the fears and the fearlessness.

Liz Rosenberg

Knowing her, she'll be riding next week. She is a fearless girl.

Herbert Sloane

I yelled 'get me out' several times, and the next thing I knew I realized somebody was pulling me out of the plane. My instinctive fear was the gasoline.

Brendan Shanahan

He just knows how to play the game. Most times, I'm the one standing in front but if I'm not there, he has no fear of going in there and doing that job. The goal isn't scored unless Steve's screening the goalie.

Steven Gerrard

He just goes out there as if he's going for a knockabout with his friends, ... He has no fear.

Sugata Mitra

We need a pedagogy free from fear and focused on the magic of children's innate quest for information and understanding.

Mike Ramsey

What we fear, in a situation as radioactive as this one, is that we'll have a so-called stealth juror.

James Douglas

Here lies he who neither feared nor flattered any flesh

Graeme Smith

We are fearful it is possibly going to be sold for scrap, which would be a travesty.

Sara Gruen

Although, pretending not to notice is almost worse than noticing.

Donald Rumsfeld

I'm not sure I should have said that, ... Let's pretend I didn't say that.

Julian Barnes

Wisdom consists partly in not pretending anymore, in discarding artifice.

Anders Holm

Back in college, I remember shooting stupid videos with my friends. It would be us going around town in capes pretending we were superheroes.

Edmund White

I used to think that I could be successful if I pretended to be a 23-year-old black woman. I wanted to find a young black woman who would be willing to go in on this with me. I would write her novels, and then she would do the touring. I always thought I was too old and the wrong color.

Abraham Foxman

This is not a documentary, and nobody's pretending it is.

Barbara Kingsolver

I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing.

Eric Maskin

I'm not a housing market expert, and I don't want to pretend to be one.

Taylor Handley

When you get to play pretend for a living and do it with really talented people, it's really fun to go to the office!