Charlie Byrd Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
-
I like to sit down every day and not know where the book is going. I have no idea where the book is going to go or how it's going to end as I'm writing it.
-
Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
-
I learned how to read in second grade, and I entered a summer contest at my local library in Chattanooga, Tennessee. If you read more books than anybody else, you got your Polaroid up on the bulletin board, and I did.
-
I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
-
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
-
I know how to make the difference. When I make the difference, I often do it at the end of the match, and that shows that I am fresh.
-
I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
-
I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for about a year and a half the editor said, 'Your stories are the most talked about stories in the 'Observer'; you should have your own column.'
-
I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
-
I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.
-
Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.
-
Another real problem was over putting our helmets on for re-entry, because we all had severe head colds. They couldn't come up there and make us. Houston, you have a problem!
-
Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
-
I could do a franchise for the end of everything. 'The End of Dogs,' 'The End of Cats.'
-
My mother is incredible. I mean, still is today.
-
The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared.
-
Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.
-
I once interviewed my grandma for a class project about the Second World War. After 70 years filled with marriage, children, grandchildren, death, poverty and triumph, the thing about which she was unquestionably the proudest and most excited was that she and her family did their part during the war.
-
One of the great things about music is that it has the capability of time travel - you smell a certain smell in the room and it takes you back to your childhood. I feel like music is able to do that, and it happens to me all the time.
-
I did a TV movie with Tom Cavanaugh. He was the perfect partner, I learned so much from him. I would do anything with him again.
-
Photography as a fad is well-nigh on its last legs, thanks principally to the bicycle craze.
-
Fervent bella horrida, ferventossibus inclusa fremit et discordibus armisnon simplex natura hominis.
-
A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life.
