Bill Moseley Quotes

My grandfather and dad worked at General American Transportation Corp. in Chicago, a company that made tank cars and freight cars. We had a pragmatic, Republican, manufacturing, Illinois consciousness as far as employment went.

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• I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.

  

  Carla Bley
  • World
  • Best
  • End

• You cannot exploit the advantages of getting above the atmosphere unless you are able to get up there reasonably large-sized telescopes and unless you are able to keep these telescopes pointing at one region of the sky for long periods of time to a high degree of accuracy.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • Want
  • Success
  • Successful

• I have run two Olympic 'A' standard times over the past 12 months and with the time I ran at the African Championships last week I know my speed and fitness are constantly improving so that I will peak in time for the Olympics.

  

  Oscar Pistorius
  • Time
  • Past
  • Fitness

• I moved about 45 minutes from West Hollywood, and I live surrounded by nature and the wilderness, but I constantly find myself walking around, like in the commercial, saying, 'Can you hear me now?'

  

  Olga Fonda
  • Live
  • Nature
  • Myself

• I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • History
  • Movie
  • Loved

• I used to have to force myself to go, okay, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing and then all of a sudden a thought of some where could come in. Now I can just focus and not think about anything. So, yeah, I guess I do that a lot.

  

  Nancy Johnson
  • Focus
  • Myself
  • Thought

• The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Real
  • Church
  • British

• I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Future
  • Picture
  • Baseball

• Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.

  

  Baldwin Spencer
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Years

• Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Old
  • Italian
  • Saying

• I hate thinking about clothes. I hate shopping.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Thinking
  • Hate
  • Shopping

• There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Believe
  • History
  • Change

• Around my house, I won't even speak to my family unless they first address me by my official Berzerker name, Godred Crovan, Victor of Sky-Hill and Ruler of Man and the Isles. And now that I think of it, that's probably why nobody speaks to me unless it's time to feed the dogs or take out the garbage.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Time
  • Family
  • Why

• When I'm actually writing by hand, I get more of a sense of the rhythm of sentences, of syntax. The switch to the computer is when I actually start thinking about lines. That's the workhorse part. At that point, I'm being more mathematical about putting the poem on the page and less intuitive about the rhythm of the syntax.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Hand

• I've been very excited to have children for a long time. It definitely added an interesting twist to the night we screened 'Lyle' at Outfest, and I got up to do the Q&A, and I had this huge belly no one was expecting. It creeped everybody out in the best way.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.

  

  Wendell Pierce
  • True
  • Self
  • Consequences

• When mom and dad were at the height of their careers, and things were super-crazy, and they couldn't leave their houses, there wasn't social media. It was all about autographs. Now, everyone's the press. I feel fame is perforated: it can be glorious, but it can completely destroy a human, too.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • Crazy

• Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Sense
  • Proportion
  • Realised

• You turn on the TV, and you hear all these guys: 'Republican Party in disarray. Turmoil in Washington.' I don't think that's the case.

  

  Blake Farenthold
  • Party

• I was still in the college and they told me I should try it. At the time, I still thought I was going to be an Olympic softball player. But later, when I retired from softball in 2007, I decided to give bobsled a try. I emailed the coach and got invited to Lake Placid for a tryout and I never left.

  

  Elana Meyers
  • College
  • Player
  • Coach

• Comic strips are like a public utility. They're supposed to be there 365 days a year, and you're supposed to be able to hit the mark day after day.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • You
  • Day
  • Year

• I think the play actually became bigger than me. No pun intended.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • Think
  • Me
  • Play

• My grandfather and dad worked at General American Transportation Corp. in Chicago, a company that made tank cars and freight cars. We had a pragmatic, Republican, manufacturing, Illinois consciousness as far as employment went.

  

  Bill Moseley
  • American
  • Dad
  • Chicago