Bill Nelson Quotes

Too many children are being parked in substandard day care with workers who make little more than a parking attendant.

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• My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • American
  • House
  • Looks

• I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler.

  

  Laura Mennell
  • Good
  • Hand
  • Try

• The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Life
  • Never
  • Goal

• People my age don't always know where their music comes from.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • People
  • Music
  • Age

• I was myself brought up with my brother, whose name was Matthias, for he was my own brother, by both father and mother; and I made mighty proficiency in the improvements of my learning, and appeared to have both a great memory and understanding.

  

  Flavius Josephus
  • Up
  • Great
  • Mother

• 'Mean' is a song I wrote about somebody who wrote things that were so mean so many times that it would ruin my day. Then it would ruin the next day. And it would level me so many times, I just felt like I was being hit in the face every time this person would take to their computer.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Time
  • Song
  • Me

• Opponents of legal birth control, including abortion, have tried for decades to play the race card, saying that legal abortion is racist. What they ignore is that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in 1966.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Control
  • King
  • Ignore

• If I can hit No. 1 on the 'New York Times' best-seller list, I'm thinking of having the entire list tattooed on my body somewhere. It would be fabulous.

  

  Camilla Lackberg
  • Thinking
  • Body
  • New York

• 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

• Disease and ill health are caused largely by damage at the molecular and cellular level, yet today's surgical tools are too large to deal with that kind of problem.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • Today
  • Health
  • Problem

• I feel I will always have that spirit bear with me, so I will always feel protected.

  

  Adam Beach
  • Me
  • Feel
  • Spirit

• Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Different
  • Me
  • Scary

• I have never had personal debt and never will.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Never
  • Personal
  • Debt

• Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Long
  • Love
  • For Her

• It's better to be skinny than to be fat.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • Better
  • Fat
  • Skinny

• Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Bad
  • Best
  • Beginning

• You just have to take these opportunities when they come along. They're not that frequent; you'll get a really good script, oh, maybe once a year if you're lucky.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Good
  • Year
  • Opportunities

• Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Life
  • Saved
  • Ours

• If our words are not consistent with our actions, they will never be heard above the thunder of our deeds.

  

  H. Burke Peterson
  • Words

• Once in pre-war days, when curiously-bonneted women drivers were familiar sights at the taxi-wheels, I cried out to one in my dismay: 'Is there no speed limit in this mad city?''Oh, yes, monsieur,' she answered sweetly over her shoulder, 'but no one has ever succeeded in reaching it.'

  

  Alexander Woollcott
  • Women
  • She
  • War

• I never went through a period were I wanted to be a doctor, a cop or even a rock star. All I wanted to do was play short stop for the Yankees from the time I was about 5. Then I turned 15 and realized how silly that was and just gave up on it.

  

  Artie Lange
  • Up
  • Time
  • Stop

• Taking care of children has nothing to do with politics. I think perhaps with time, instead of there being a politicisation of humanitarian aid, there will be a humanisation of politics.

  

  Audrey Hepburn
  • Children
  • Politics
  • Humanitarian

• Too many children are being parked in substandard day care with workers who make little more than a parking attendant.

  

  Bill Nelson
  • Children