Chris Gibson Quotes

My eyes are wide open... you serve in Iraq, your eyes are wide open.

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• We tend to pay attention to that which is the most current on our radar screen.

  

  Warren Rudman
  • Attention
  • Pay Attention

• Men are sort of doofuses about sunscreen, and for the most part, women are more inclined to take better care of themselves, but a reminder is always good for everyone.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Good
  • Men
  • Women

• Everything I do is for my parents and my family. The car is nice, the house is nice, but none of this matters without them. If it wasn't for them, I wouldn't be here. I don't know where I would be, honestly.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Family
  • House
  • Parents

• My mother was an actress and my voice teacher, an incredible voice teacher. My biological father is an actor, and my stepfather, who raised me along with my mother, is a psychotherapist. I was always supported in creative ventures.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Teacher

• I don't sleep well. I rehash everything in bed. The mind's still working.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • Mind
  • Sleep
  • Bed

• There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept responsibility for what happens in that organisation. I am therefore writing to the prime minister today to tender my resignation as chairman of the BBC.

  

  Gavyn Davies
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Today

• When I was a kid, I wasn't making my choices based on anything other than 'Did I want to work that day?' or 'Did being in school sound more fun?' And I don't remember ever reading a script and thinking, 'Is this going to be a fun part to play?'

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • School

• I think as a filmmaker one should make all kinds of films. It is not that one should make only one kind of film. I love to see romantic films; I loved watching 'Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge,' 'Kuch Kuch Hota Hai.' If I make such films, I will make it with my yardstick, according to my parameters.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • Think
  • Film
  • See

• I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever 'completing a life' means.

  

  Oliver Sacks
  • Life
  • Trying
  • My Life

• Nothing was made in Trinidad.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Made
  • Nothing

• You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • People
  • Trying
  • Business

• The way people deal with me - they'll go overboard in trying to be politically correct and make a mess of it. Everyone's so worried about what they're saying to everyone else, that they don't talk very much.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • People
  • Trying
  • Saying

• We don't want to promote any system that treats the fact that an individual is LGBT as a personality disorder. And anything that perpetuates that perception is harmful - not only to that member of the community but the entire community.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Want
  • Community
  • Personality

• My dad is my biggest source of inspiration. He's a lawyer, and when he'd get home, we always sat down and listened to music.

  

  Dan Reynolds Imagine Dragons
  • Music
  • Dad
  • Inspiration

• I would be opposed to any kind of totalitarian control.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Control
  • Kind
  • Would

• Let him go abroad to a distant country; let him go to some place where he is not known. Don't let him go to the devil, where he is known.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Country
  • Devil

• The better we know Jesus, the more social do his thoughts and aims become.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • Jesus
  • Thoughts

• Grandmother Hannah comes to me at Pesach and when I am lighting the sabbath candles. The sweet wine in the cup has her breath.... a little winter no spring can melt.

  

  Marge Piercy
  • Sweet
  • Spring
  • Wine

• I plainly told them, 'Be ye sincerely converted, and with your whole heart, to the Lord our God, for nothing is impossible to Him, that He may today send you food on your road, even until you are satisfied, because He has everywhere abundance.' And, with God's help, it was so done: Behold! A herd of swine appeared in the road before our eyes.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • God
  • Heart
  • Done

• When I think about it, the happiest and most successful people I know don't just love what they do, they're obsessed with solving something that matters to them. They remind me of a dog chasing a tennis ball: Their eyes go a little crazy, the leash snaps and they go bounding off, plowing through whatever gets in the way.

  

  Drew Houston
  • People
  • Eyes
  • Crazy

• I closed my eyes and rested my head against his chest, wishing sincerely that Rhiannon would get hit by a bus.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Wish
  • Eyes
  • Eye

• Time has touched me gently in his race,And left no odious furrows in my face.

  

  George Crabbe
  • Time

• My eyes are wide open... you serve in Iraq, your eyes are wide open.

  

  Chris Gibson
  • Eyes