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
  • Thoughts
  • Feelings

• 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
  • You
  • Feeling

• 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

• My view is, Democrat, Republican, it doesn't matter, my view is I'm in Washington to try to work with people.

  

  Mark Pryor
  • People
  • Work

• Just as cherry, plum, peach and damson blossoms all possess their own unique qualities, each person is unique. We cannot become someone else. The important thing is that we live true to ourselves and cause the great flower of our lives to blossom.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Great
  • Important
  • Live

• What makes us feel drawn to music is that our whole being is music: our mind and body, the nature in which we live, the nature which has made us, all that is beneath and around us, it is all music.

  

  Hazrat Inayat Khan
  • Music
  • Mind
  • Nature

• I'm a grandmother with dogs and nice friends here in the Rocky mountains. Ever see the movie A River Runs Through It? That's where I live. It's beautiful, no two ways about it.

  

  Margot Kidder
  • Live
  • Friends
  • Movie

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

  

  David Milch