David Means Quotes

My characters - no, make that most characters - are seeking the shelter of narrative resolution, a place of quiet and grace.

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• I respect the Premier League.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Respect
  • Premier League

• The economy is not immutable; it's not about natural laws. It's about rules, and we make the rules.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Economy
  • Rules
  • Laws

• The biggest thrill in the world is entertaining the public, there is no bigger thrill than that.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • World
  • Bigger
  • Thrill

• I've never experienced complete terror, knock on wood, or running for my life or any of that.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Life
  • Running
  • My Life

• Evolution - evolutionary change - does not happen quickly.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Change
  • Happen
  • Evolution

• A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Past
  • Experiences
  • Pull

• There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Good
  • May
  • Saying

• Aside from 'Hatchet II' and 'Hatchet III,' I've never repeated myself. I try to keep doing things that are totally different.

  

  Adam Green
  • Different
  • Myself
  • Doing

• What could an unsanctified man do in Heaven, if by any chance he got there? Let that question be fairly looked in the face and fairly answered. No man can possibly be happy in a place where he is not in his element and where all around him is not congenial to his tastes, habits and character.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Character
  • Happy
  • Man

• I'm reticent to say much more, but we would like to begin in the coming year. We'd like to shoot through the seasons because of the passage of time. This project is the great love of my life.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Life
  • Time
  • Great

• I think different teams have different challenges as you go through.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Different
  • Think
  • You

• From my first dunk at 14 years old to my second NCAA Championship at the University of Tennessee, my intense training with my dad was always to credit.

  

  Candace Parker
  • Dad
  • Training
  • Old

• I turned pro as a 20-year-old, won a world title a year later, and remained a world champion ever since.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • World
  • Year
  • Champion

• An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.

  

  Ouida
  • Life
  • Husband
  • Comfort

• My father's biggest achievement was to motivate the South Korean people, to show them we could become prosperous if we worked hard. He taught me to love my country, and serve my country.

  

  Park Geun-hye
  • People
  • Country
  • Love

• You like to be independent, but you will need to learn to ask for help. It doesn't make you weak.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Help
  • Learn
  • Independent

• His vision was to industrialize India, to urbanize India, and in the process he hoped that we would create a new society - more rational, more humane, less ridden by caste and religious sentiments. That was the grand vision that Nehru had.

  

  Manmohan Singh
  • Society
  • Religious
  • Vision

• Beard's secret is always to be slightly on the edge but to pull back from disaster at the last minute.

  

  Mary Beard

• I was embarrassed when a businessman friend asked, 'What's the yearly budget of your talk show? What's the per-episode budget?' And I looked at him with these blank, typical-model eyes and said, 'I don't know.' I call myself a businesswoman and I don't know that? So that is my goal next year-to really dissect the budget.

  

  Tyra Banks
  • Friend
  • Eyes
  • Model

• Laughter is the music of life.

  

  William Osler
  • Life
  • Success
  • Laughter

• People tend to think of gentrification in terms of race because it's presented that way, and I think it's presented that way because in poor cities that's what's really going on. Beyond that, I think it's presented that way as a way for the people who are really pushing it to make it just a black problem, so people don't care.

  

  Killer Mike
  • Problem
  • Cities
  • Pushing

• Self-help must precede help from others. Even for making certain of help from heaven, one has to help oneself.

  

  Morarji Desai
  • Heaven
  • Helping
  • Certain

• If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.

  

  Thich Nhat Hanh
  • Happy
  • Smile
  • Family

• My characters - no, make that most characters - are seeking the shelter of narrative resolution, a place of quiet and grace.

  

  David Means