Neil Simon Quotes

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• Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Personality
  • Successful

• It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • May
  • Cold
  • Friendship

• The whole hardware industry has experienced the phenomenon in which every time computers get cheaper, they appeal to a new set of users; every time they get more powerful, old customers upgrade.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Time
  • Powerful
  • Computers

• I had my first concert in front of 80,000 people at the International Soca Monarch Finals.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • People
  • First
  • Concert

• I had no style when I was 17! I look at teenagers now and say, 'I wish I'd looked like them when I was that age.' I had no style whatsoever, but style also wasn't as prominent as it is today. I was just very laid back, usually wearing jeans and tank tops and flip flops.

  

  Candace Cameron Bure
  • Age
  • Today
  • Wish

• You have to persuade yourself that you absolutely don't care what happens. If you don't care, you've won. I absolutely promise you, in every serious negotiation, the man or woman who doesn't care is going to win.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Serious

• Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Life
  • Today
  • Understanding

• I was a huge fan of comedy in high school.

  

  Adam McKay
  • School
  • High
  • Comedy

• I learned early on not to listen to either critique - the people who love you or the people who don't like you.

  

  Dan Brown
  • People
  • Like
  • Learned

• Memory is a net: one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Water
  • Memory
  • Fish

• I don't know, I like to go on really different types of dates. Going someplace new or some new part of the city, something that's not your average thing. Something where you just go have an adventure together.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Different
  • Together
  • City

• Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly.

  

  Malcolm Bradbury
  • Old
  • Innocent
  • Grow

• I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • School
  • Science
  • Education

• When you're trained for battle, the idea is that it will be man against man.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Man
  • You
  • Battle

• The post office actually achieves its mission. I wish we could say the same of the CIA.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Wish
  • Mission
  • I Wish

• I think being recognized more is something you have to get used to, whether it's here or in California or when I'm traveling. It's more a part of my life. People recognize me from my play or a commercial I've done. It's just a normal part of life now.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • People
  • Life
  • Done

• We have more and more one-newspaper towns, and that troubles me.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Me
  • More
  • Towns

• I am nice to everybody. But people really take advantage of it.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • People
  • Nice
  • Advantage

• Mostly, I just write about feelings that people can relate to. Because, yeah, I don't know who I am, and this is not my sound forever... I'm a human, so hopefully, I will always develop.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Feelings
  • Write
  • Sound

• One thing I'm doing on the new Titanic recording is actually bringing in different acoustic spaces.

  

  Gavin Bryars
  • Different
  • Doing
  • New

• The history of the Erie Railroad ever since 1901 has been a record of progress.

  John Moody
  • History
  • Progress

• Leaders of the various Iraqi elements will likely have their own militias, and there will be endless rounds of brinkmanship on the road to post-Islamic State boundaries, governing structures, and distribution of power and resources.

  

  David Petraeus
  • Power
  • Road
  • Islamic

• The wholly manly man lacks the wit necessary to give objective form to his soaring and secret dreams, and the wholly womanly woman is apt to be too cynical a creature to dream at all.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Dream

• Gee, what a terrific party. Later on we'll get some fluid and embalm each other.

  

  Neil Simon
  • Party