Billy Crystal Quotes

Can you imagine if Babe Ruth had had Twitter?

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• Underwriting is probably the smallest part of our business.

  

  Warren Stephens
  • Business
  • Our
  • Smallest

• Now science has presented us with a hope called stem cell research, which may provide our scientists with many answers that have for so long been beyond our grasp.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Long
  • May
  • Hope

• This was the period when I used all the influence I had to get the British to abandon their export trade, and as much as possible convert all of their manufacturing facilities to the immediate needs of the war, including civilian, as well as military requirements.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • War
  • Military
  • Period

• A lot of fighters come from Brazil. We've been doing this for long, long years.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Long
  • Doing
  • Brazil

• You'd think after 8 years of things called 'The Patriot Act' and 'No Child Left Behind' they would know that we have figured out the 'Call it what it ain't' PR ploy by now, but... um... no.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Think
  • Know
  • Child

• Probably the geekiest attribute that I have of them all is that I've always had a hard time meeting friends. Like no matter where I grew up and I moved around, I always had a hard time.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Up
  • Time
  • Friends

• I support the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Support
  • Rights
  • Voting

• People never expected a boy from a small town to have a life like I did.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • People
  • Life
  • Small

• A big part of managing a golf course is managing your swing on the course. A lot of guys can go out and hit a golf ball, but they have no idea how to manage what they do with the ball. I've won as many golf tournaments hitting the ball badly as I have hitting the ball well.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Idea
  • Golf
  • Big

• I don't believe I should be out running for another office instead of running my office.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Believe
  • Running
  • Office

• A good leader has to at some point trust those around him; otherwise, nothing constructive is going to get done.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Good
  • Done
  • Trust

• There are many more serial killers living outside the prison walls than inside.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Living
  • Prison
  • Walls

• It is the future, of course, which politicians grapple with, and that is why politics is so disorderly. Only history clears away some of the debris.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Why
  • History
  • Future

• You can sustain visual beauty and innovative visual ideas for a certain length of time, but in a two-hour experience, which is really what movies are, usually audiences - whether they know it or not - most want an emotional connection to character.

  

  Gavid Hood
  • Time
  • Character
  • Experience

• My telephone manners were, well, offensive to some. As I lugged my cell around, yammering away, I noticed cold stares from passersby who viewed me as a kind of techno-terrorist, or at least incredibly rude.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Rude
  • Manners
  • Terrorist

• The independents who were our fiercest competitors all succumbed to the one-hit-makes-you-a-genius philosophy. It is a mistake to think you have the magic touch. Show business is roulette. If you start to play for stakes you can't afford, there's no way you can survive.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Business
  • Mistake
  • Magic

• Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Work
  • Men
  • Women

• We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world. To make injustice the only measure of our attention is to praise the Devil.

  

  Jack Gilbert
  • World
  • Attention
  • Devil

• If we worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true really is true, then there would be little hope for advance.

  

  Orville Wright
  • True
  • Hope
  • Assumption

• There are methods to creating a mayhem that sounds different from your usual mayhem. Because mayhem and a heavy drum backbeat end up sounding like Green Day or something. But if you put a different beat within it to create some air and lightness, the chaos comes through better.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • Creating
  • Methods
  • Mayhem

• I first became aware of the delights of the natural world when my father, an entomologist, presented me with what looked like a twig. When it got up and walked, my delight was such that I wrote a poem, 'To a Walking Stick.'

  

  Jean Craighead George
  • Up
  • World
  • Father

• But I certainly made mistakes, for which I regret, I think most human beings in their lifetime make mistakes, mine ended up in two years prison - two very remarkable years from which I learnt a lot.

  

  Jeffrey Archer
  • Up
  • Regret

• My life, the most truthful one, is unrecognizable, extremely interior, and there is no single word that gives it meaning.

  

  Clarice Lispector
  • Life
  • Single

• Can you imagine if Babe Ruth had had Twitter?

  

  Billy Crystal