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I have written stories, essays, even whole books on trains, scribble-scribble.

Paul Theroux

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• When I was a teenager, I was an umpire for a competitive league for 8- to 9-year-olds. I was really bad at it because I didn't know all the rules, and all these kids were better athletes than me. I made a bad call, and this dad snapped on me. Then he dumped his trash from his cooler, and I had to kick him out of the stands.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Know
  • Teenager
  • Rules

• I have loved Elliott Carter's music for many years.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Years
  • Loved

• In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Art
  • Man
  • Himself

• Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.

  

  Imre Lakatos
  • Positive
  • Research
  • Negative

• I think theatre at its best looks into the dark corners; clearly, my dark corners are full of doom.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Best
  • Dark
  • Theatre

• I believe in the 'Wal-Mart' school of business. The less people pay, the more they enjoy it.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • People
  • Believe
  • School

• I'm very happy with the choices I've been making and the people I've been working with. I hope I can continue along this path.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • People
  • Happy
  • Hope

• How many times do I have to repeat this: my childhood was fantastic.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Childhood
  • Times
  • Repeat

• I thought, 'OK, Melissa Gilbert is playing my mom, and I'm playing her old role - no pressure.' So I went up to Melissa and said, 'It's such an honor playing your daughter,' and she smiled and said, 'Oh, shut up.' I thought, 'Great, a normal person.'

  

  Kara Lindsay
  • Mom
  • Daughter
  • Honor

• Before 'Music and Lyrics,' I was just doing high school plays and singing in my church choir and my school choir.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Music
  • School
  • High

• I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.

  

  Wayne Brady
  • People
  • Comedy
  • Morning

• A mother will come up to me and say, 'Will you meet my son? He loves you. He watched 'How to Train Your Dragon' a thousand times.'

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Son

• Something just happens when you're making a record, where certain things start to come out. It's just something in the air.

  

  Beck
  • You
  • Air
  • Start

• I wouldn't know how to think inside the box because I don't even know where it is. I wouldn't know how to do it any other way.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Think
  • Know
  • Box

• Everyone makes their own comments. That's how rumors get started.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Everyone
  • Started
  • Rumors

• I was a member of the Politburo for seven years, a foreign minister.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • Years
  • Seven
  • Member

• When I was in high school, in my generation, I thought that you got a logical, sensible job, or you got married.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • School
  • Job
  • High

• He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Life
  • Country
  • Man

• In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Point
  • Case
  • Obscure

• I was born and raised in Lancaster, Pennsylvania - in Amish Country!

  

  Jonathan Groff
  • Country

• I think if we're going to live in this - in this world - in this technological world where information can be disseminated so quickly, we have to be serious and take firm, strong action against those who are putting American lives at risk. Because this will put people's lives at risk.

  

  Peter T. King
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• I was working with these very long-chain ... extended-chain polymers, where you had a lot of benzene rings in them. ... Transforming a polymer solution from a liquid to a fiber requires a process called spinning. ... We spun it and it spun beautifully. It Kevlar was very strong and very stiff-unlike anything we had made before. I knew that I had made a discovery. I didn't shout "Eureka!" but I was very excited, as was the whole laboratory excited, and management was excited, because we were looking for something new. Something different. And this was it.

  

  Stephanie Kwolek
  • Transforming
  • Science
  • Spinning

• I have written stories, essays, even whole books on trains, scribble-scribble.

  

  Paul Theroux