Bill Toomey Quotes

Past Olympians have a continuing role within the Olympic family.

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• It never occurred to me that some people were seen as wrong or even different.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • People
  • Different
  • Me

• Architects create spaces that accommodate human activity. As opposed to many of its contemporary counterparts, Dune'is not so much focused on the styling of that activity, as on the supporting of it.

  

  Magnus Larsson
  • Human
  • Create
  • Activity

• Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Service
  • Intelligent
  • Choice

• Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Fall
  • Woman
  • Grace

• People perceive games as being for kids, and I think that perception is going to change. Time is going to take care of that. I mean, we've already won. Games have won; it's inevitable.

  

  Warren Spector
  • People
  • Time
  • Kids

• My dad would pick me up every other Friday at 6 o'clock and drop me off every Sunday at 6 o'clock, and I remember those last couple hours, like around 4 o'clock, my dad would get kind of sad because he knew that he was about to not see me for two more weeks.

  

  RaeLynn
  • Remember
  • Me
  • Dad

• Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Friends
  • Existence
  • Second

• I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Believe
  • Human
  • Human Beings

• I have perfectly symmetrical ankles.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Perfectly
  • Symmetrical

• The interesting thing about blockchain is that it has made it possible for humanity to reach a consensus about a piece of data without having any authority to dictate it.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
  • Interesting
  • Humanity
  • Data

• Around 2005, the Canadian army tapped me to do a dramatization for a series of foresight workshops they'd done. They had stacks of papers and needed it boiled down to something simple enough for a 4-star general to understand. We decided to do it as a story. That's how I created 'Crisis in Zefra.'

  

  Karl Schroeder
  • Story
  • Understand
  • Army

• It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Time
  • Good
  • Bad

• My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Faith
  • Emotions
  • Negative

• The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Up
  • House
  • Religious

• There may be a long list of things to do, but really, there is just one thing on the list at any time. If you think of it like that, the whole world looks different and you can stay quite calm. Maybe everything will get done eventually and maybe not. You can always have hope.

  

  Zoketsu Norman Fischer
  • Time
  • World
  • Different

• The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Science
  • Funny
  • New

• What I would say about Barney Eastwood is that when our relationship worked, it worked extremely well. He had a lot of strengths as a promoter and a manager.

  

  Barry McGuigan
  • Relationship
  • Say
  • Manager

• Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.

  

  Jack Paar
  • People
  • Fun
  • Saying

• Mortgage insurance stocks remained depressed through the end of 2012 amid lingering uncertainty as to whether they had sufficient capital to absorb losses on delinquent loans originated before the crisis. However, as house prices began to recover, losses started to decline.

  

  John Paulson
  • House
  • Insurance

• Family transcends the flesh. You don't love someone because they look like you, you love their spirit; it's the soul connection.

  

  Christine Ebersole
  • Family
  • Soul
  • Connection

• When I was 5 years old, my mother read me 'Gone With The Wind' at night, before I went to bed. I remember her reading almost all year.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Remember
  • Mother
  • Night

• There was a time in my early 20s when I would leave a movie theater and just feel so alone and lonely afterwards. I just felt like my life was nothing like those characters up on the screen, so perfect all the time. Why didn't I talk like that? Why don't I look like that?

  

  Derek Cianfrance
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• I really liked them, not just Syd, but all of them. Roger was very important, I thought, his contribution. And so was Rick's organ playing. It was a good band. It became something else completely, obviously.

  

  Robert Wyatt
  • Important
  • Band
  • Contribution

• Past Olympians have a continuing role within the Olympic family.

  

  Bill Toomey
  • Family
  • Past