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

• 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

• I cherish the memory of being a friend of Frank Sinatra on a friendship level to the point where we really hung out. We worked in Vegas, we'd talk on the phone, and if I wasn't doing anything, I'd fly out, and I spent time in Palm Springs at his house - on a level the way friends would be, not with a whole crowd of people.

  

  Frankie Valli Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons
  • People
  • Time
  • Friends

• I'm blonde and tanned and normal-sized! I'm sweet, shy, funny, have a big heart and I'm nice - and I like to eat.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Heart
  • Funny
  • Nice

• A design that doesn’t take change into account risks major redesign in the future.

  

  Erich Gamma
  • Future
  • Design
  • Risks

• I had to read Plato and Kant, and at times I was overwhelmed. But I have always been fearless, and so was Hannah Arendt. She wasn't afraid to speak out when she knew her opinions would not be popular because she believed in the public discourse above all.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • She
  • Speak
  • Popular

• I've always felt if you followed a real private detective around, it would be boring.

  

  Powers Boothe
  • Real

• 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