Billy West Quotes

Well, I happen to have a love of vocal reproduction devices.

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• I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Act

• I love work where I can find out more about the world and its history.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • World
  • Work
  • History

• At the beginning of a new project, often before I do any actual writing, I collect photos, quotes, song lyrics, and even objects that relate to the characters or the world I'm creating.

  

  Kami Garcia
  • World
  • Writing
  • Song

• When I listen to a song, I don't say, 'Oh my gosh, that vocal line she sang was the best thing I ever heard.' I'm thinking, 'That lyric just moves me. That lyric just said what I feel better than I could say it myself.'

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Thinking
  • She
  • Song

• The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Past
  • Beginning
  • Twilight

• U.S. surveillance of Pakistan extends far beyond its nuclear program. There are several references in the black budget to expanding U.S. scrutiny of chemical and biological laboratories.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Black
  • Budget
  • Beyond

• A 'Cosmo' cover has been my dream my entire life. I cried when I found out.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Life
  • Dream
  • Found

• To the Parisians, and especially to the children, all Americans are now 'heros du cinema.' This is particularly disconcerting to sensitive war correspondents, if any, aware, as they are, that these innocent thanks belong to those American combat troops who won the beachhead and then made the breakthrough. There are few such men in Paris.

  

  A. J. Liebling
  • Men
  • Children
  • American

• I always had an awful lot going on in my head, always telling myself stories, very vivid imagination.

  

  Kate Thompson
  • Myself
  • Always
  • Imagination

• The perpetuation of slavery, the exile and extermination of American Indians, and the passage of Jim Crow laws weren't carried out at the bidding of a few malefactors of great wealth.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Great
  • American
  • Slavery

• The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • History
  • Creative
  • Realize

• People don't talk to me the way they would other people. They kind of look at me, but they never come over. It makes me feel like there's something wrong with me.

  

  Fairuza Balk
  • People
  • Way
  • Kind

• People in great institutions are occasionally credulous.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • People
  • Great
  • Institutions

• Sex appeal is a good thing for commercial cinema. Though I can't sit at home and consider myself a sex symbol, it is for people to do so. I want to be known as an interesting actor.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • People
  • Good
  • Home

• Preparing and cooking squid is easier than most fish. The only thing to remember is not to cook it for too long.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Long
  • Remember
  • Cooking

• When I was a child and came with my elders to Galway for their salmon fishing in the river that rushes past the gaol, I used to look with awe at the window where men were hung, and the dark, closed gate.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Men
  • Past
  • Dark

• The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • World
  • Real
  • Beginning

• History teaches, perhaps, very few clear lessons. But surely one such lesson learned by the world at great cost is that aggression, unopposed, becomes a contagious disease.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • World
  • Great
  • History

• And to me it seems that you have fallen asleep upon a white rock, and in a parish of dreams, and have dreamt all this in a moment while it was night.

  

  Anatole France
  • Night
  • Rock

• Rejoice in the great, free emancipation of peoples.

  

  Marine Le Pen
  • Great
  • Free

• Sometimes you get politicians who dig their feet into the sand and aren't willing to listen to another voice.

  

  Elizabeth Edwards
  • Voice
  • Politicians
  • Sand

• Justice demands that the good and hard-working be rewarded and the evil and the lazy be punished (if only by the withholding of the rewards of doing the right things). Modern Liberalism demands that the good and hardworking be punished as the recipients of an unfair advantage and the evil and the lazy be rewarded, their acts of evil and their failure all the proof the Modern Liberal needs that somehow they have been victimized by forces out of their control.

  

  Evan Sayet
  • Evil
  • Justice
  • Lazy

• Well, I happen to have a love of vocal reproduction devices.

  

  Billy West