David Wenham Quotes

I would love to direct a feature and have Robert Connolly produce it. That would be really fab.

David Wenham

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• I don't have the looks to compete at a bar, and I'm not that funny. So the last thing I want is to be in a situation where that's what I'm competing on. I'd rather be on OkCupid or Match, where I can write a 300-word essay about myself that's really good.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Good
  • Funny
  • Myself

• This woman's work is exceptional. Too bad she's not a man.

  

  Edouard Manet
  • Work
  • She
  • Bad

• I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Teacher
  • Everything
  • Loved

• I developed an optical lure that imitates certain types of bioluminescent displays that I think might be attractive to large predators. The other way to do it is just use dead bait, but I think dead bait attracts scavengers, and we wanted to attract active predators.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Think
  • Way
  • Dead

• Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the protection of this basic right than race, sex, age, or sexual orientation is a reason to deny membership in the human moral community to other humans.

  

  Gary L. Francione
  • Age
  • Community
  • Moral

• For us, it is very important all the time that our core business is really good but that we don't stop moving.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Time
  • Good
  • Important

• Something even minor I do is going to be reported because of things that have happened in the past. You have to be aware of that.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Past
  • You
  • Because

• The frontiers of science, on the very small scale and very large scale, require large investments and international effort.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Science
  • Small
  • Effort

• It was tough to make weight against Cerrone, and I passed out three times making weight for the Eddie Alvarez fight. One day you get to the limit.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Day
  • Fight
  • Tough

• I feel that racial profiling may be a very complicated and long-standing problem. It will take a long time even to make tiny progress.

  

  Wen Ho Lee
  • Time
  • Long
  • May

• Finally, two days ago, I succeeded- not on account of my hard efforts, but by the grace of the Lord. Like a sudden flash of lightning, the riddle was solved. I am unable to say what was the conducting thread that connected what I previously knew with what made my success possible.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Success

• We're also increasing the number of Syrian and other refugees we admit to the U.S. to 100,000 per year for the next two years.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Number
  • Refugees
  • Increasing

• Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • God
  • Men
  • Words

• There is one thing that ought to be taught in all the colleges,Which is that people ought to be taught not to go around always making apologies.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • People

• 'Ah, Psyche,' I said, 'have I made you so little happy as that?'

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Happy

• Options allow a woman to tailor her role to her personality, but if a man expects to provide well, he expects to wear a suit, not to wear what suits him.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Personality

• His the author's renown has been purchased, not by deeds of violence and blood, but by the diligent dispensation of pleasure.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Violence
  • Author

• A misperception about anorexia is that you don't eat. Not true. Maybe you eat just 500 calories a day. It would be easy for me to say, 'Why didn't my parents notice?' But I didn't want them to. I made sure to eat half a sandwich around my parents.

  

  Brittany Snow
  • Why
  • True
  • Parents

• Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having lots of free time in which to write or becoming an English teacher and thinking about books and writers on a daily basis. That swayed me.

  

  David Guterson
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• The world didn't stop because we weren't in it anymore.

  

  Susanna Kaysen
  • World
  • Stop
  • Anymore

• Every once in a while I play a true idiot, and they're really fun to play.

  

  Elizabeth Banks
  • True
  • Fun

• I made a series of wrong decisions about moderately recent books, and I've sold the rights to studios for ridiculous amounts of money and the films have never been made. That's the saddest thing of all, because they're locked up and no one else can make them.

  

  John le Carre
  • Up
  • Money

• I would love to direct a feature and have Robert Connolly produce it. That would be really fab.

  

  David Wenham