David Gower Quotes

You can make plans but if the opposition plays well, then all your plans become worthless.

David Gower

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• As Senator, I will always put the health and safety of New Hampshire's families first.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Health
  • New
  • Safety

• But my point is these Civil War songs were gruesome. The hatred that's so bad in this country today, and for the past 10 or 15 years, bad as it is, is nothing compared to the kind of things people would write down and sing back in the Civil War.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • People
  • Country
  • War

• I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.

  

  Inga Muscio
  • Work
  • Joy
  • Dance

• Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great
  • Small
  • Noise

• Idealism, unrealistic idealism, is always contrasted with the reality of the people, of the man in the street. The details of daily life are always more convincing than the political fantasies of the earlier generations.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • People
  • Life
  • Man

• I write novels, mostly historical ones, and I try hard to keep them accurate as to historical facts, milieu and flavor.

  

  Gary Jennings
  • Facts
  • Try
  • Flavor

• For economist the real world is often a special case.

  

  Edgar Fiedler
  • World
  • Real
  • Special

• When Princess Diana got married, I was a very little kid, I think. I remember her dress, and I found the dress amazing when I was a kid.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Remember
  • Think
  • Amazing

• I find theater very lazy and artificial, and then when it's not, it lacks refinement.

  

  Natasha Tsakos
  • Find
  • Lazy
  • Theater

• Doing 'Kingsman' is such hard work. It's so physical and demanding.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Work
  • Doing
  • Hard Work

• Before we had the kids, my husband and I were traveling a lot and working and really enjoying our lives and each other. We both love the theater and books and travel and so we were really having a lot of fun.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Kids
  • Fun
  • Travel

• VCs are used to being the gatekeepers of capital. There's this old narrative of entrepreneurs going hat in hand begging VCs for money. That absolutely is not the world we're in anymore.

  

  Olaf Carlson-Wee
  • World
  • Money
  • Hand

• I don't need to scare the other athletes. When I'm running, I will scare them.

  

  Yohan Blake
  • Running
  • Need
  • Will

• We’ll rack our brains and either solve your problem or come up come up with new and better ones.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Up

• Well, hey, let's just make everything into a closure, and then we'll have our general garbage collector, installed by 'use less memory'.

  

  Larry Wall

• I think too many promising young minds are wasted on it.

  

  Antonin Scalia

• While all other Sciences have advanced, that of Government is at a stand; little better understood; little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.

  

  John Adams

• Labor, n. One of the processes by which A acquires property of B.

  

  Ambrose Bierce

• Prose cannot compete with the economy of poetry, the ability to have a full artistic experience in a short period of time.

  

  Mary Karr
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Poetry

• Music has its own emotional embodiment. It carries an emotion with it. When you associate a lyric with the music, it's much easier; but when you're standing there completely dry in front of the camera with no musical background, just a fine-tuned, get-this-emotional-story across, it's a very, very intense kind of focus.

  

  Debbie Harry Blondie
  • Music
  • Focus
  • Emotional

• My fans have great senses of humor and eat too much chocolate.

  

  Christopher Moore
  • Great
  • Chocolate

• If they keep booing, and we keep winning, I don't care.

  

  Tarvaris Jackson
  • Care
  • Winning
  • Keep

• To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.

  

  Anthony Clifford Grayling
  • Experience
  • History
  • Reading

• You can make plans but if the opposition plays well, then all your plans become worthless.

  

  David Gower