David Milch Quotes

Showbiz and churches are the same thing. You never saw 'The Wizard of Oz?'

David Milch

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• I think people are always able to achieve more than they think they can. While that's cliche, I don't know if managers think about that enough. You have to set your sights extremely high.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • People
  • High
  • Know

• We all have thoughts and feelings that we believe are fundamental to our lives but that are better left unspoken.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Believe
  • Feelings
  • Thoughts

• At some hotels, I feel like I have to be dressed to the nines - perfectly eccentric - to walk out the door.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Feel
  • Door
  • Walk

• I love what I do. And why not be nice? I mean, I've seen people who work and they're apparently not enjoying it, and they're making sure everybody knows it.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • People
  • Work
  • Nice

• How you leave the reader is so important - not the climax; I call it the 'exit feeling'.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Important
  • Feeling
  • You

• Once in a while, the thumb that fits over the neck of the guitar kinda bothers me a little bit, but not that much yet. I figure in time I won't do much because of my age.

  

  B. B. King
  • Time
  • Age
  • Guitar

• The less I talk about being black, the better.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Black
  • Better
  • Talk

• If I had been told to get out of the street as a teenager, there would have been a distinct possibility that I might have smarted off. But, I wouldn't have expected to be shot.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Teenager
  • Street
  • Shot

• If you are a good writer - and I think I am - you are able to handle any kind of group and imagine their lives.

  

  Earl Hamner, Jr.
  • Kind
  • Writer
  • Lives

• A boardroom is a collection of individuals, and individuals have varying motives, egos, agendas and qualifications. Sometimes the dynamics can go off track.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Sometimes
  • Go
  • Collection

• Have you recently been through a challenge, disappointment, break up or disloyalty with somebody in your life? If so, it's important after you've been hurt, to take some time to think like a lion tamer about your pain, so you can tame the possibility of more negativity coming back to bite you again!

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• We aren't, as human beings, very good at acting in our best interest.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Good
  • Best
  • Acting

• Thank God we're going to try to continue and effectively defend our frontiers with the Border Patrol, with the Customs Department, with the Coast Guard, with the Armed Forces.

  

  Barry McCaffrey
  • God
  • Try
  • Thank God

• A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Worth
  • Paper
  • Contract

• I hate having my photograph taken.

  

  E. L. James
  • Hate
  • Taken
  • Photograph

• Sooner or later we have all to pay for what we do.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Pay
  • Later
  • Sooner

• We reason of these things with later reason And we make of what we see, what we see clearly And have seen, a place dependent on ourselves.

  

  Wallace Stevens

• Well, I guess in all honesty I would have to say that I never knew nor did I ever hear of anybody that money didnt change.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • Money
  • Honesty

• Anything that has a relationship with pleasure, we reject it. Eating, they talk about cholesterol; making love, they talk about AIDS; you talk about smoking, they talk about cancer. It's a very sick society that rejects pleasure.

  

  Marjane Satrapi
  • Society
  • Relationship
  • Sick

• I only ever play Vegas one night at a time. It's a hideous, gaudy place; it may not be the end of the world per se, but you can certainly see it from there.

  

  Robin Williams
  • Night
  • Play
  • Vegas

• I don't want to do material that I don't like. I've always stuck to that policy. If that means being out of work for awhile, that's fine with me.

  

  Joel Grey
  • Work

• The minute you finish a piece of writing it doesn't belong to you, you don't write it any more, it belongs to you, the reader, the listener, the audience. So the less you know about whether or not this is me talking about my life or this is me talking about your life, I think the better. Then it can belong to you and it can live outside of the moment in which it was conceived.

  

  Kate Tempest
  • Thinking
  • Moments
  • Talking

• Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

  

  Richard Rorty
  • Always
  • Weekends

• Showbiz and churches are the same thing. You never saw 'The Wizard of Oz?'

  

  David Milch