Bill Toomey Quotes
When I competed, it was for honor and country. It was a privilege to be a part of the U.S. team.
Quotes to Explore
-
I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
-
The violinist must possess the poet's gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth which lies within.
-
Put simply, the doctrine of 'Fair Use' applies to content republished from copyrightable material and how much of that content is, literally, fair to use.
-
There's a delicious irony in seeing private luxury jets flying in to Washington, D.C., and people coming off of them with tin cups in their hands saying that they're going to be trimming down and streamlining their businesses. There's a message there.
-
Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
-
I'm not sensitive, I'm not a weepy person.
-
Santorum is the greatest person on the face of the planet as far as I'm concerned.
-
A Tea Party tidal wave is coming.
-
I certainly feel that the time is not far distant when a knowledge of the principles of diet will be an essential part of one's education. Then mankind will eat to live, be able to do better mental and physical work and disease will be less frequent.
-
It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.
-
It was always my dream to write for a living.
-
They thought that athletes that worked out with my system wouldn't be able to throw a ball because they'd be too muscle bound. Those are the misconceptions I had to go through for about 40 years.
-
I'm probably the wealthiest Indian in America.
-
I'm an obsessive hiker and I do it every day for two hours and it really helps me when it comes to learning songs or scripts.
-
There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?
-
Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
-
All of Hollywood was convinced that 'Gone with the Wind' would be a colossal disaster and rather hoped it would be.
-
People should recognize who you are and how you can act rather then how famous you are.
-
To illustrate what I mean, an apt dancer may be in thorough unison with the others in that particular group, and at the same time reveal a difference in dancing temperament, rhythm or technique; she may phrase, accentuate or actually interpret differently.
-
Basically our championship starts here. Fourteen races, not sixteen. It's not a comfortable position to be in, but that's the reality. The team is conscious about the challenge we have to make to recover the ground over Benetton.
-
I wrote a book on grace, and grace is a free gift, but to receive the gift you have to have your hands open. And a lot of people don't have their hands open, there's something they're grasping because there's a lot of things to grasp in a prosperous country.
-
Why can you get a driver's license that is recognized state-to-state but a concealed weapons permit is not treated the same? There is a process to do that in a Trump administration because it makes sense.
-
When I competed, it was for honor and country. It was a privilege to be a part of the U.S. team.
