Bill Paxton Quotes
It was so weird that I would end up directing 'The Greatest Game Ever Played,' because, y'know, I'm not a big golfer myself. But I grew up around the game. My mom and dad kind of built their dream house off the 11th fairway of Shady Oaks Country Club in Fort Worth.
Quotes to Explore
-
I talk every day about doing the right thing.
-
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
-
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
-
Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
-
Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
-
The secret we should never let the gamemasters know is that they don't need any rules.
-
It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
-
The secret to everything for me is doing yoga every day. It does do nice things for your body, but it also kind of calms you down and chills you out. Other than that, I don't really drink alcohol and I always take my makeup off at night!
-
It is typical of women to fester and ferment over disappointments, slights, annoyances, angers, etc.
-
Most superhero characters we see these days are from foreign countries. I would like to play a superhero that shows off Korean power.
-
For a while, I became an atheist; now that I'm grown up, though, I'm not hard-edged enough to be an atheist. Even though I live with a flaming atheist, I love going to temple. I love all the rituals.
-
No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.
-
Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.
-
Boxing traditionally was received very well and accepted on both sides.
-
Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.
-
In cartoons, in movies, time passes differently. There are flashbacks and flashfowards.
-
From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example, Python and Ruby provide almost the same power to the programmer.
-
Sometimes I feel I hope I am not taking advantage of my stardom.
-
The United States does not provide economic support funds to the Palestinian Authority to build new homes for terrorists or fund President Abbas' anti-Israel campaign trips through Europe.
-
When I first saw Drake, I thought I was never going to like him based on the person that I saw on T.V. He's just so full on, and he's got the ladies' man thing, which isn't necessarily something that would resonate with me.
-
Being a star comes with not just fame and fortune, but with awareness and responsibility.
-
If you're blessed enough to serve in public office, then you shouldn't just talk a good game about your values; you should cast your vote according to them.
-
I chose the trombone because the trombone players in the marching band got to be up front with the majorettes (because of the slides) and I loved that!
-
It was so weird that I would end up directing 'The Greatest Game Ever Played,' because, y'know, I'm not a big golfer myself. But I grew up around the game. My mom and dad kind of built their dream house off the 11th fairway of Shady Oaks Country Club in Fort Worth.
