Will Shields Quotes

Don't waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window- or break down a door.

It was my mom and I against the world. We lived in New York in this bohemian lifestyle where an extended group of artists and photographers were like my aunts and uncles.

The very damaging, frightening part of postpartum is the lack of perspective and the lack of priority and understanding what is really important.

The thing I'm the most proud of in my personal life is that my daughter actually thinks that I'm fabulous.

If an abduction is reported, it is dealt with in the same way as a kidnap.

There is always strength in numbers. The more individuals or organizations that you can rally to your cause, the better.

This is why I read novels: so I can escape my own unrelenting monologue.

Anything processed by memory is fiction.

Photographers can create moments that will never happen again but last a lifetime.

Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.

Hey baby. You're sexy like a chocolate strawberry.

Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.

Modeling is the world that I feel most welcome in.

Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve.

Go for long walks, indulge in hot baths, Question your assumptions, be kind to yourself, live for the moment, loosen up, scream, curse the world, count your blessings, Just let go, Just be.

George Washington was the president who could never tell a lie, and Richard Nixon was the president who could never tell the truth. Donald Trump is truly the president who can't tell the difference.

As Bill Clinton said so eloquently at the convention, during Vietnam there was a chance to serve; there was a chance not to serve.

As I get older, I realize a lot of the things I could have done - things that I didn't think were so great at the time - actually would have been enjoyable.

Lips are the fingerprints of love.

The problem with smear campaigns is that too often they work.

There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Skepticism is only a time-based reality, and as an ultimate reality, it's always wrong, because everything always happens.

If you're dedicated to something and you put the time in, why should anyone have an opinion on it? Halif of the people who comment about women's boxing don't even watch it.

There's nothing wrong with being organized.Things that change history tend to be organized.

Honesty is the quality I value most in a friend. Not bluntness, but honesty with compassion.

Bookish people, who are often maladroit people, persist in thinking they can master any subtlety so long as it's been shaped into acceptable expository prose.

Musically, I just think in terms of what's next. There's a lot of things I've always dreamed of doing, and I hope I get to them before I get too deaf.

John McCain has become the de facto running mate of George W. Bush.

You've got people who didn't serve with John Kerry saying they did serve with John Kerry in the boat. With George Bush, we can't find anybody who did serve with him.

John Kerry's biography was central to his campaign.

Everybody who served in John Kerry's boat under his command save one has stood with him.

nothing she did or said was quite what she meant but still her life could be called a monument shaped in a slant of available light and set to the movement of possible music

Too many people use abortion as a form of birth control. And that's very wrong. I could never, ever have an abortion.

You have to understand that Republicans are on lockstep on one issue. They will not raise taxes. Democrats are in lockstep on another issue, pro-choice in all cases on abortion.

I hope this will help new moms not feel alone or desperate, and that there is no shame in their feelings. PPD is out of their control, but the treatment and healing process is not.

John McCain was victimized in the South Carolina primary.

Anyone's childhood can be an act of disablement if rehearsed and replayed and squinted at in a certain light. . .

The economy of the United States gross domestic product doubled from 1996 to 2015, doubled, more than, $8.8 trillion to $17.1 trillion. And the median household income went down.

My medium is prose, not the novel.

You wind up listening to one song that you really like 30 times on YouTube and then you're done with it. That's the way it is.

Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less language.

The scolding voice is her own, so abrasive and quick, yet so powerless to move her.

I buy magazines. I'm not floating around in my own universe. I'm interested in everything.

Most people just give up with time and go, "I'm a victim." The only reason I've got the reputation for delays and spending a long time on things is because I just don't stop.

I think I'm going to have to live vicariously through my daughter's rebellion because I certainly never did go through adolescence.

The difficulty of IVF or of any fertility issues is the hope and the shattered hope, the dream that it might happen this time and then it doesn't happen.

Everything I write, I believe instinctively, is to some extent collage. Meaning, ultimately, is a matter of adjacent data.

I don’t know what’s the matter with me, why I’m so adept at distance, why I feel so remote from things, why life feels like a rumor.

The recounting of a life is a cheat...even our own stories are obscenely distorted.

There is nothing more basic to our democracy than the right to participate in electing our political leaders.