Bill Mauldin Quotes

I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.

Bill Mauldin

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• It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.

  

  Saad Hariri
  • People
  • Fall
  • Easy

• We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Past
  • Care
  • Blame

• To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example; not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • World
  • Believe
  • True

• If you always feel like an imposter, you work harder, and that makes you better at your job. You've got to keep a level of variation; otherwise, you'll end up talking about nails and beauty products all the time.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.

  

  Ed Markey
  • Future
  • Opportunity
  • Education

• It's about enjoying your life. If you have no family, no friends to enjoy it with, it don't matter how much you have, how much success you have, how much fame you have, how much money you have, it doesn't matter.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Life
  • Family
  • Money

• Right now I'm still only 25 and I don't think the maternal bug has hit me yet.

  

  Karrie Webb
  • Think
  • Right
  • Hit

• A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Great
  • May
  • Value

• I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Time
  • Think
  • Relationship

• No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead.

  

  Van Wyck Brooks
  • Book
  • House
  • Lost

• Jazz is progressive, and it's alive.

  

  Kat Edmonson
  • Alive
  • Jazz
  • Progressive

• I don't know anything about music.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Music
  • Know
  • Anything

• I've become the hunted. I'm enjoying that. It's better to be the hunted than the hunter.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Better
  • Become
  • Hunter

• The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Work
  • Long
  • Done

• I go on giving interviews because I've been brought up to support the projects I'm involved in. When you've enjoyed working on a production, you want to do them a favour.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Up
  • Want
  • Giving

• Sometimes you have a poem that you really want to write and it never happens.

  

  C. K. Williams
  • Want
  • You
  • Sometimes

• My mother doesn't have much of a social life with other A-list people. Which in a way I'm very grateful for, because if I do make something of my career I will be able to say it wasn't because I was a Chaplin.

  

  Oona Chaplin
  • People
  • Life
  • Mother

• If you want my answer about Donald Trump, you can Google it. It's everywhere. They've got this new thing called Google.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Want
  • You
  • Trump

• I want to give back and show my gratitude to the indies. At the same time, cherish the mainstream projects I've been getting.

  

  Coco Martin
  • Time
  • Gratitude

• When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Money
  • Giving

• Nick Diaz is a guy who walks forward, has great boxing skills.

  

  Anderson Silva
  • Great
  • Guy
  • Boxing

• But when I call for a hero, out comes my lazy old self; so I never know who I am, nor how many I am or will be. I'd love to be able to touch a bell and summon the real me, because if I really need myself, I mustn't disappear.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Real
  • Hero
  • Self

• I had a high school English teacher who made me really work at writing. And once, when I got an assignment back, she'd written: 'This is so good, Andrew. This should be published!' That made a big impression on me.

  

  Andrew Clements
  • Good
  • Work
  • Writing

• I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.

  

  Bill Mauldin
  • Law