Bill Griffith Quotes

I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents.

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• For me, it is very important to control a situation in defence. You can always score goals, but you have to add stability in the defence.

  

  Bastian Schweinsteiger
  • Important
  • Me
  • Control

• I have never been asked to be in a movie musical. Other than 'Yentl,' which I didn't sing in.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Movie
  • Never
  • Sing

• When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Smart
  • Intelligence
  • Dolphin

• When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Relationship
  • Desire
  • Effort

• Jewelry, to me, is a pain in the derriere, because you have to be watching it all the time.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Time
  • Pain
  • Jewelry

• Rey is so strong. She's cool and smart and she can look after herself. Young girls can look at her and know that they can wear trousers if they want to. That they don't have to show off their bodies.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • Strong
  • Smart
  • Bodies

• I think with world building, it's important to create a sense of culture even if it is just a fantasy, and the best way to do that is to look at a real human culture and see what makes it cohesive.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • World
  • Important
  • Real

• My role models were always the Pacinos and the Oldmans, the guys who get dirty with their characters, and I arrived in L.A. during the big boom of 'Dawson's Creek.' I was getting cast as the boy next door, or the friend of the jock. I thought, 'Did I really have to do all that studying?'

  

  Gabriel Mann
  • Friend
  • Thought
  • Boy

• I'd love to make a thriller.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Love
  • Make
  • Thriller

• If wanted to play a sport, I played a sport. If I wanted to do things that many girls born in 1950 didn't do, I did it.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Play
  • Things
  • Born

• If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Believe
  • You
  • Yourself

• If we want to recruit and retain high-quality teachers, it starts with a fair wage, adequate working conditions, and the resources and support to succeed. Remember: teachers' working conditions are students' learning conditions.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Remember
  • High
  • Want

• Readers let me know that they like books that have more to them than meets the eye. Had they not let me know that, I never would have written 'The View From Saturday.'

  

  E. L. Konigsburg
  • Know
  • Never
  • Books

• Different days, I think about different victories. Ricky Hatton is one of those fights. I respect Ricky Hatton. He's a warrior. He's a hell of a warrior.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Different
  • Think
  • Respect

• People seem to need a likable protagonist more than ever.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • People
  • Need
  • Seem

• We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Reality
  • Space
  • Humility

• Sarcasm is like cheap wine - it leaves a terrible aftertaste.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Like
  • Wine
  • Sarcasm

• With a genre like film noir, everyone has these assumptions and expectations. And once all of those things are in place, that's when you can really start to twist it about and mess around with it.

  

  Lana Wachowski
  • Place
  • Start
  • Expectations

• More people would recognise me in Kingston, but it's rare to go on the road and not get recognised by someone. The problem now is everyone has a camera in their pocket, on their cell phone - at the airport it's difficult to get from point A to point B without taking half an hour because there are so many people taking pictures.

  

  Damian Marley
  • People
  • Road
  • Cellphone

• Ask any teenage girl to describe her perfect bedroom, and you'll get answers like 'a room with a private phone line, a place to hang out with friends, and for it to be way-cool and funky.' Ask parents the same question, and 'a locked door that opens on their 21st birthday' might top the list!

  

  Candice Olson
  • Friends
  • Parents
  • Girl

• When you have a godly husband, a godly wife, children who respect their parents and who are loved by their parents, who provide for those children their physical and spiritual and material needs, lovingly, you have the ideal unit.

  

  Jerry Falwell
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Respect

• The simulated approval and affection with which parents and teachers are often urged to solve behavior problems are counterfeit. So are flattery, backslap-ping, and many other ways of "winning friends.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Friends
  • Parents
  • Winning

• I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents.

  

  Bill Griffith
  • Parents