Billy Crystal Quotes

I never felt I had my 15, 16, 17 kind of years the way I maybe should have. It's a huge dent in you that it's hard to knock out and make it all smooth again.

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• Since Mashable's inception, some of our most popular articles have focused on the science behind the world's coolest innovations.

  

  Adam Ostrow
  • World
  • Science
  • Popular

• I never reflect or convey that which I have not experienced myself.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Reflect

• The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Present
  • Moment
  • Wellness

• I don't write constantly; it's two serials and a novel a year.

  

  Umera Ahmad
  • Write
  • Year
  • Two

• There's nothing wrong with doing sequels, they're just easier to sell.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Doing
  • Nothing
  • Easier

• What does signature mean? Supposedly these are the added touches that make the crime personal to the killer.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Crime
  • Personal
  • Signature

• When employees feel anonymous in the eyes of their managers, they simply cannot love their work, no matter how much money they make or how wonderful their jobs seem to be.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Work
  • Money
  • Love

• In our system, at about 11:30 on election night, they just push you off the edge of the cliff-and that's it. You might scream on the way down, but you're going to hit the bottom, and you're not going to be in elective office.

  

  Walter F. Mondale
  • Night
  • Down
  • Election

• No matter what I do, I'll be forever known as the Manson prosecutor.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Forever
  • Matter
  • Prosecutor

• I wasn't a good kid in school. I wasn't a bad kid. I just didn't focus. My grades weren't good. I mucked around, you know, a phase everyone went through.

  

  Dacre Montgomery
  • Good
  • School
  • Bad

• We know in the field of aging that some people tend to senesce, or grow older, more rapidly than others, and some more slowly.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • People
  • Grow
  • Aging

• To be a mother you must be strong. Even if you don't feel it, you have to pretend.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Mother
  • Strong
  • Be Strong

• There's no recovery on Main Street, I can tell you that for sure. And in a re - in an economy like this, we don't need to be raising anybody's taxes.

  

  Haley Barbour
  • Economy
  • Recovery
  • Taxes

• The federal government has invested billions in Metro, yet the system is not safe and is not reliable.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Government
  • System
  • Safe

• I feel like by me putting on a couple more pounds will help my game tremendously. Putting on 10-15 pounds will help me stop the run better and be a more dominant pass rusher.

  

  Gaines Adams
  • Help
  • Game
  • Me

• So today, let me say: Sisters and brothers of India - my confidence in what our nations can achieve together is rooted in the values we share. For we may have our different histories and speak different languages, but when we look at each other, we see a reflection of ourselves.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Different
  • May
  • Together

• In 1994, Burns told the editorial board of the Bozeman Chronicle that when asked by a constituent, 'How can you live back there in Washington, DC with all those niggers?' he replied, 'It's a hell of a challenge.' When he was asked about the use of the racial slur, he said: 'I don't know. I never gave it much thought.'

  

  Conrad Burns
  • Live
  • Challenge

• Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.

  

  Alan Turing
  • Science

• The championship always goes to the team that wins the most rounds and is the most prepared. I think everybody on our team works hard towards keeping that goal. Time will tell if we're prepared or not.

  

  Larry Dixon
  • Time
  • Team
  • Goal

• I think that in Sweden and a lot of European countries, there's this whole mythology of the wounded artist: that you can't really do any great art unless you're suffering.

  

  Joel Kinnaman
  • Great
  • Art
  • Suffering

• Chameleons feed on light and air: Poets' food is love and fame.

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Food
  • Light
  • Air

• Sci-fi films are the epic films of the day because we can no longer put 10,000 extras in the scene - but we can draw thousands of aliens with computers.

  

  William Shatner
  • Film
  • Scene
  • Aliens

• I've talked with friends about this: when you write about yourself, that's what people connect to. When you write a sermon or a lesson, that may not reach people. I've learned a lot from people who have been writing about themselves.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • People
  • Writing
  • May

• I never felt I had my 15, 16, 17 kind of years the way I maybe should have. It's a huge dent in you that it's hard to knock out and make it all smooth again.

  

  Billy Crystal