Bill Toomey Quotes

One of the key elements is the ability to be honest with yourself.

Bill Toomey

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• I don't start writing a script until I can see it all in my head, then it's a matter of getting it down in white heat.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Writing
  • Start
  • Down

• The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.

  

  Yehuda Amichai
  • Reason
  • Poet
  • Himself

• Chicken and horse meat are the best foods for weightlifters, and good food is important.

  

  Ilya Ilyin
  • Good
  • Important
  • Food

• There is no one true church.

  

  Pat Buckley
  • True
  • Church

• I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Trying
  • Leader
  • Civil Rights

• We need to do more to conserve fuel or face tougher choices such as steep price increase or even quantitative restrictions.

  

  Veerappa Moily
  • Choices
  • Need
  • Face

• I believe that, too, it's hard to believe that anybody could not believe that.

  

  Fay Vincent
  • Believe
  • Hard
  • I Believe

• In politics, religion and other areas of culture, people disagree on the worth of competing ideas. There is no equivalent to the scientific method that can determine in a robust way which ideas match the real world, and which ones can be ruled out. So conflicting ideologies persist indefinitely.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • World
  • Real

• I have never been accepted. I'll never make the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They're never going to let me in.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • Me
  • Rock
  • Rock And Roll

• Sometimes if you expose your vulnerability, someone else will feel comforted. It's like we're all in this boat together.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Together
  • Sometimes
  • Boat

• Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Nature

• The course of development

  

  Carl Andre

• To me, anything goes. But that's me.

  

  Paris Hilton

• Sacred religion! mother of form and fear.

  

  Samuel Daniel
  • Mother
  • Fear

• Rubberband man, wide as the teleband9 on my right, .45 in my otha hand

  

  T.I.
  • Hand

• Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Experience
  • Romantic
  • Management

• 'And when a strong man is sweet, even Goddesses look down from Mount Olympus.'

  

  Anne Rice
  • Strong
  • Sweet

• I grew up in the Valley, and I didn't know any of our neighbors. I think when you grow up like that, there's always sort of a fantasy of a place where everybody knew each other, and you had that safe sort of feeling.

  

  Amy Sherman-Palladino
  • Up
  • Feeling

• Solyndra's failure isn't a reason for the government to give up on alternative energy, any more than the failure of Pets.com during the Internet bubble means that venture capital should steer clear of tech projects.

  

  James Surowiecki
  • Up
  • Energy
  • Failure

• Some things are very low profile, but if they excite me creatively, I accept them. Sometimes there are high-profile projects, and you have to do it. We all have human limitations. It is a painful decision to turn things down. Even accepting 'Slumdog Millionaire' was a decision that I had to sacrifice another project.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Decision
  • Human
  • Projects

• Music means harmony, harmony means love. Love means God.

  

  Sidney Lanier
  • Music
  • God
  • Harmony

• I've always worn a lot of Ralph Lauren, and plaid shirts in general have been a signature piece for me. With plaid, you can look super-relaxed or you can look a bit dressed up.

  

  Avicii
  • Up

• In many professions, what used to matter most were abilities associated with the left side of the brain: linear, sequential, spreadsheet kind of faculties. Those still matter, but they're not enough. What's important now are the characteristics of the brain's right hemisphere: artistry, empathy, inventiveness, big-picture thinking.

  

  Dan Pink
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Brain

• One of the key elements is the ability to be honest with yourself.

  

  Bill Toomey