Billy Crystal Quotes

Our professor was Marty Scorsese. Marty was a graduate student, or Mr. Scorsese, which is what I had to call him, and still do when I see him 'cause he gave me a C.

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• I know girlfriends of mine who, when they were approaching pregnancy and starting a family, consistently went through a period right beforehand that was a last gasp kind of thing where they just wreak havoc. They fall apart, in a profound way, because there's some awareness that that's the last time they can do that for awhile.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • Time
  • Family
  • Know

• As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Great
  • History
  • Unity

• Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Circle
  • Round
  • Praised

• I got the sense that Alabama is a place where people don't want handouts and don't much care for people talking out of the side of their mouth.

  

  Adam McKay
  • People
  • Want
  • Care

• I made nothing happen very slowly.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Nothing
  • Very
  • Happen

• When I was filming, I imagined that Legolas was a meditative character who was very thoughtful and had a certain amount of depth to him. I started working on trying to find this focus that Legolas has, which wasn't really like me.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Trying
  • Character
  • Focus

• Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Life
  • Man
  • Answer

• I spent a lot of time at my grandparents in the school holidays, and the only books in the house were a copy of the Bible and Agatha Christie's 'Murder at the Vicarage.' I developed a taste for murder mysteries and then later discovered libraries, second-hand bookshops, and jumble sales.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Time
  • School
  • House

• I don't think I would do better books if I wrote full time. I write for amateurish reasons.

  

  Upamanyu Chatterjee
  • Time
  • Think
  • Better

• When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness.

  

  Tecumseh
  • Die
  • End
  • Dreams

• I want to write music that's going to appeal to everyone.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Music
  • Want
  • Everyone

• Pandemics do not occur randomly. From malaria and influenza to AIDS and SARS, the lethal microbes have come, in the first instance, from animals, especially wild animals. And we increasingly know which parts of the world pose the greatest risk for future incursions.

  

  Nathan Wolfe
  • World
  • Future
  • Risk

• While my speech is getting better every day, throughout my recovery, I have been able to sing to some extent.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Day
  • Better
  • Speech

• I was always daydreaming about singing in big productions on Broadway.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Always
  • Singing
  • Broadway

• Everything else was in the past, and the past no longer mattered.

  

  Laura Anne Gilman
  • Past

• He looked death in the eye and did not seem disappointed.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Death

• He got his mean streak from the gutterGot his kindness from God

  

  Laura Nyro
  • God
  • Kindness

• For, as blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • May
  • Fool

• Woman would be more charming if one could fall into her arms without falling into her hands.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Fall

• anybody who drinks seriously is poor: so poor, poor, extra poor, me.

  

  Caitlin Thomas
  • Poor
  • Drinking
  • Alcoholism

• The question is not whether we should or should not regulate; it is how much should we regulate and who the regulators should be. We went overboard on deregulation under Reagan. Under Bush, many people lost in the casino. Now we have the Obama administration overreacting and overreaching with regulation that does the exact opposite of wealth creation. If we are to have change we can believe in, then we could start by replacing the majority of the lawyers in regulatory agencies with actual experienced, successful business veterans. They would have recognized the early warning signs of many of the financial debacles created by the bubble-bust cycle.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Business
  • Lawyers
  • Reagan

• To know when one's self is interested, is the first condition of interesting other people.

  

  Walter Pater
  • People
  • Interesting

• I feel like a lot of people disregard the scrutiny that people like us are under.

  

  Lauren Jauregui Fifth Harmony
  • People

• Our professor was Marty Scorsese. Marty was a graduate student, or Mr. Scorsese, which is what I had to call him, and still do when I see him 'cause he gave me a C.

  

  Billy Crystal