David Mellor Quotes

Lawyers are like rhinoceroses: thick skinned, short-sighted, and always ready to charge.

David Mellor

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• I've made plenty of violent games in my life. I play violent games. They don't affect people in the way that a lot of people think they do. They just don't. It's demonstrably true that they don't, and anybody who thinks they do is just not thinking.

  

  Warren Spector
  • People
  • Life
  • Thinking

• The duty of the media is to observe truth and social responsibility.

  

  Salva Kiir Mayardit
  • Truth
  • Responsibility
  • Media

• All women's issues are to some degree men's issues and all men's issues are to some degree women's issues because when either sex wins unilaterally both sexes lose.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Sex

• I just use intuition - would I wear that? Would it feel okay? It's pretty simple, nothing too complicated.

  

  Yoon Ahn
  • Pretty
  • Simple
  • Nothing

• The deployment of geolocating tags attached to ordinary garbage could paint a surprising picture of the waste management system, as trash is shipped throughout the country in a maze-like disposal process - as we saw in Seattle with our own Trash Track project.

  

  Carlo Ratti
  • Country
  • Picture
  • Process

• I'm very inspired by him-it was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • Up
  • Work
  • Father

• The key step for an infielder is the first one... but before the ball is hit.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • First
  • Step
  • Key

• One man's wage increase is another man's price increase.

  

  Harold Wilson
  • Work
  • Man
  • Price

• My way of expression is full of complications and mystery because that's my perception of life.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Life
  • Perception
  • Mystery

• I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Racism

• There are things that bother me. I try not to let them, but they do.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Me
  • Things
  • Try

• I want to win championships.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Want
  • Win
  • Championships

• I've been a model for 15 years, and I've been on 'Top Chef' for eight seasons, and before that I had other cooking shows, so I've learned a thing or two about how to camouflage certain areas and how to draw the eye to a preferable area of the body.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Eye
  • Model
  • Cooking

• I get random meetings, like, 'Ron Howard would like to sit down with you.' 'Really?' If 'Breaking Bad' hadn't happened, Ron Howard probably wouldn't want to sit down with me. Because he would have no idea who I was.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Bad
  • Want
  • Idea

• You've got to have a sense of humor to keep your sanity.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • You
  • Humor
  • Sense Of Humor

• My father always cooks more polenta than he needs for a meal. The excess he spreads on an oiled surface and chills. Next day, he cuts out chunks, fries them in olive oil and serves with salad.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Father
  • Day
  • Oil

• Book publishing was never a heaven 'run by editors', and it is by no means today a hell 'run by accountants.' If our 'sole interest' was 'instant profit,' not only would we never do any number of the things we actually do every day, we probably wouldn’t be in book publishing at all.

  

  Patrick Nielsen Hayden
  • Book
  • Today
  • Heaven

• An ignorant doctor is the aide-de-camp of death.

  

  Avicenna
  • Death

• The phonograph and kinetoscope may some day seize and perpetuate all save the magnetic touch, but that weird, illusive, indefinable yet wonderfully real power by which the orator subdues may never be caught by science or preserved for the cruel dissecting knife of the critic.

  

  David Josiah Brewer
  • Real
  • May
  • Power

• If you have to ask how much it costs, you can't afford it.

  

  J. P. Morgan
  • You
  • Ask
  • Costs

• No, no, I don't watch football. The last time I tried watching was the last Super Bowl. The problem I have is, you know, the graphic nature of my imagination; when I watch and see them meeting head onto head, helmet onto helmet, what flashes through my mind is what's going on in their brains. It's like torture to me.

  

  Bennet Omalu
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Nature

• In the 1930s and the 1940s, we set up the FHA. We set up the Home Owners' Loan Corporation. We set up specific bureaus to make our communities look the way they look.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Up
  • Home
  • Way

• We want to be poets of our life - first of all in the smallest most everyday matters.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Life
  • Everyday

• Lawyers are like rhinoceroses: thick skinned, short-sighted, and always ready to charge.

  

  David Mellor