Billy Magnussen Quotes

I want to go base-jumping off Angel Falls and then canoeing down that river that goes east. That's what I really wanna do.

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• Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • Time
  • Will
  • Agenda

• When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Control
  • Thoughts
  • Emotions

• Developing new products is labour- intensive. So is producing the capital goods needed to make them. These jobs disappear when innovation stalls.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Innovation
  • New
  • Disappear

• I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Control
  • Problem

• The Department of Justice will continue to pursue those that travel to fight against the United States and our allies, as well as those individuals that recruit others on behalf of ISIL in the homeland.

  

  Dana Boente
  • Justice
  • Travel
  • Fight

• One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Life
  • Men
  • Action

• Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Home
  • Age
  • Independent

• When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Money
  • Giving

• You're an enormous sponge and everything goes in there and you squeeze it out in songs, I guess. And if you're a painter, you squeeze them out on to a canvas.

  

  Feist
  • You
  • Everything
  • Canvas

• I think, for me, winning opens doors to all types of shapes and sizes and genres to come on the show and kill it. I'm probably the antithesis of what American Idols have been.

  

  Caleb Johnson
  • American
  • Me
  • Winning

• Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Love
  • Nature
  • Soul

• The thing that bothers me about journalism is the false equivalency we sometimes place on certain issues.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Me
  • Issues
  • Journalism

• Family and God - that is what's important. Money, cars, those are things that come and go.

  

  Fabrice Muamba
  • God
  • Important
  • Family

• If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Voting

• I am a good and interested mother - which has surprised me.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Good
  • Mother
  • Interested

• I like America, where believers eddy around each other like currents of air. Even our atheists are devout! To be an American is to be a believer. I don't have much faith in institutions, but I still believe in people.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • People
  • Believe
  • American

• I drink therefore I am.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Drink

• I think sometimes writers can get themselves into trouble trying to exert a totally controlled and super-knowing tone. This kind of knowingness is not the most promising tone to be sustained throughout a novel, to have a young woman who understands everybody and is always reading a room perfectly.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Trying
  • Reading
  • Woman

• I do all the cooking in our family. I'm a utilitarian cook, rather than an adventurous one - I only have about 15 recipes in my repertoire that I rotate - but I love being able to go down to the river and catch a 30 lb. salmon, then grill it on the barbecue.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • Family
  • River
  • Cook

• Brighter than fireflies upon the Uji River are your words in the dark, Beloved.

  

  Amy Lowell
  • Words
  • Dark
  • River

• I am thinking of aurochs and angels, the secret of durable pigments, prophetic sonnets, the refuge of art. And this is the only immortality you and I may share, my Lolita.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Secret

• You can follow your favorite company or organization. You can also mix that in with your family and your social network and talk about all these interests in real time. That's the value, not the brand 'Twitter.' Twitter just provides the venue for it.

  

  Jack Dorsey
  • Time
  • Real
  • Family

• Bryn ate her bagel in silence, and by the time she was finished, Liam had already neatly packed her overnight bag and loaded it in MacAllister's car. He even included a new dog bed for Mr. French to travel in confort. Lunch was in moducal little boxes. "I think he is Alfred." "Actually, I often wonder if he's Batman.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Time
  • She
  • Car

• I want to go base-jumping off Angel Falls and then canoeing down that river that goes east. That's what I really wanna do.

  

  Billy Magnussen
  • River
  • Angel