Bill Toomey Quotes

The Olympic Games of the Modern Era began in 1896 in the city of Athens.

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• There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.

  

  Ovid
  • More
  • Alcohol
  • Nap

• Whatever God or whatever higher power you believe in, they brought us to this earth in a perfect way, and you have to learn to love yourself. Otherwise, it's an exhausting way to be.

  

  Callie Thorne
  • God
  • Believe
  • Love

• I have always loved and appreciated the Giants organization, my Giants teammates, and the fans of San Francisco.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Organization
  • Fans
  • Loved

• The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family's future.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • World
  • Children
  • Family

• No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Nothing
  • More
  • Him

• In Germany I am not so famous.

  

  Hans Berger
  • Famous
  • Germany

• You're either ghetto or you're not.

  

  Vince Staples
  • You
  • Ghetto
  • Either

• When you play in the Premier League, say you're playing against a lower-end team, they set up to defend all the time, they set up to block you off. But when you play in the Champions League, all the other teams are used to winning every week, so it's more of an open game, it's more attacking, end-to-end.

  

  Gareth Bale
  • Up
  • Time
  • Game

• Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Work
  • Way
  • Interesting

• Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • You
  • Best
  • Ahead

• For me, religious festivals and celebrations have become an important way to teach my children about how we can transform living with diversity from the superficial 'I eat ethnic food', to something dignified, mutually respectful and worthwhile.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Important
  • Children
  • Food

• As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Live
  • Child
  • Loved

• Do something because you really want to do it. If you're doing it just for the goal and don't enjoy the path, then I think you're cheating yourself.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Goal
  • Path
  • Cheating

• A lot of them are afraid to sit down and break their position. You should be able to make it so natural that you can just get out, and sit down and walk away from it, and there's nothing wrong with that.

  

  Nancy Johnson
  • Down
  • Afraid
  • Walk

• I actually was the captain of the football team. I went to Catalina Foothills High School, and I played football all four years. I started on Varsity my sophomore year, and senior year I was captain.

  

  Parker Young
  • School
  • High
  • Team

• A sudden intimacy occurs when someone does your hair.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Hair
  • Someone
  • Intimacy

• Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Science
  • Profession
  • Ethical

• The more you work with anyone, the more comfortable and safe you feel. The more you have an understanding.

  

  Nancy Allen
  • Work
  • Understanding
  • Safe

• I think the medium of television is so great for women, especially right now, because I feel like with 'Broad City' and Amy Schumer and 'Girls', the creators are the stars, so their voice is totally pure.

  

  Jessica St. Clair
  • Great
  • Women
  • City

• I made this film 'The Beach,' which didn't take place in a city, and it didn't really suit me.

  

  Danny Boyle
  • City
  • Beach

• They're a great audience, kids. They actually respond. They don't have the references that adults have, so everything is immediate. It's always interesting to see what they react to in whatever I'm working on at the moment. And they don't even want to discuss why. That's a lesson to remember: My son doesn't care about why.

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • Great
  • Why
  • Kids

• Nothing stays the same, Gina, nothing works forever. If I don’t like it, that’s too bad. If you don’t like it, that’s still too bad.

  

  Pat Cadigan
  • Bad
  • Forever

• I travel. I do a lot of traveling around the world.

  

  Chris Tucker
  • World
  • Travel

• The Olympic Games of the Modern Era began in 1896 in the city of Athens.

  

  Bill Toomey
  • City