Neil Simon Quotes

Sports is the only entertainment where, no matter how many times you go back, you never know the ending.

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• I do think women can have it all - but not all women. If you take daring steps and are smart about it, you can probably have it all. But you might have to wait a while.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Women
  • Smart
  • Wait

• Do I want to write a musical? No. I like to do musicals.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Want
  • Like
  • Musicals

• There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Genius
  • Insanity
  • Line

• Koran says whoever believes in God in the last day shall be saved. It is a religion whose very name, Islam, comes from the word Shalom, which means peace. It's about establishing peace. We greet each other with peace be upon you, which the Jews do in greeting each other.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • God
  • Peace
  • Day

• Fundamentally, footballers don't look around a dressing room and think, 'He's a black player... he's Japanese.' They don't think like that. They think, 'He's a good player; he can help. He's not very good.' I'm not trying to defend anyone's actions, but there are going to be isolated incidents because it's an emotive, passionate sport.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Help

• I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.

  

  Barbara McClintock
  • Great
  • Pleasure
  • Plants

• Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Black
  • Popular
  • New

• Nothing exists except through language.

  

  Hans-Georg Gadamer
  • Language
  • Nothing
  • Through

• Having kids is something I want to see in my future - I hope.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Kids
  • Hope
  • Future

• Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Up
  • Power
  • Know

• You do the policy, I'll do the politics.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • You
  • Politics
  • Policy

• I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.

  

  Imelda May
  • Music
  • School
  • Choices

• The secret to everything for me is doing yoga every day. It does do nice things for your body, but it also kind of calms you down and chills you out. Other than that, I don't really drink alcohol and I always take my makeup off at night!

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Night
  • Nice
  • Day

• To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • World
  • Different
  • Heaven

• Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • People
  • Love
  • Hate

• If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • May
  • Style
  • Failure

• I can't ever seem to shake the feeling that when things are really good it essentially means that things are going to go really bad. When I feel calm and settled, there is always an underlying feeling of impending doom... I don't think that it's healthy.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Think

• A democratically elected congressman of the United States of America should not be talking of an ethnic divide in Afghanistan, should not be interfering in Afghanistan's internal affairs.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • America
  • Talking
  • Internal

• You know, I love America. It's such a positive country.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Country
  • Love
  • America

• To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict, or blame their society's ills on the West - know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Society
  • Judge

• Yes, I suffer terribly from depression. I have to work at being happy, it's not my natural instinct. My natural instinct is, if something wonderful happens, to throw water in my own face.

  

  Fannie Flagg
  • Work
  • Happy
  • Water

• I don't know whether endurance sports attract obsessional people, or training for endurance sports makes people obsessional... it's the chicken and the egg.

  

  Alistair Brownlee
  • People
  • Sports
  • Training

• I know that Boston is one of the great centers of intellectual culture as well as sport. It's one of the centers of America, with a great orchestra, great sports, great hospitals, and great universities.

  

  Andris Nelsons
  • Great
  • America
  • Culture

• Sports is the only entertainment where, no matter how many times you go back, you never know the ending.

  

  Neil Simon
  • Sports