Billy Wilder Quotes

We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.

Billy Wilder

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• I grew up on comics and cartoons. So, as an adult, I like comics and cartoons.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Up
  • Like
  • Adult

• It's easy to show off if you are making plays all the time. But it's not me.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Time
  • Me
  • Easy

• He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Little
  • Much
  • He

• It's never crowded along the extra mile.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Never
  • Crowded
  • Mile

• After the dotcom boom blew up, it increased the focus on questions like, 'Why should I trust you to help run my business? How do I know you're not going to go away like every other company?' That was hard. We had to keep proving ourselves.

  

  Parker Harris
  • Up
  • Why
  • Business

• I have a message from the Tea Party, a message that is loud and clear and does not mince words. We've come to take our government back.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Words
  • Party
  • Government

• 'In My Hands,' the title track, is my very first vocal attempt, and I'm not a singer as such. But I've always wanted to express myself vocally on my albums, and I don't really have much of a capability for singing. The strength is in, I think, the lyrics and just speaking. It just comes from inside.

  

  Natalie MacMaster
  • Myself
  • Singing
  • Lyrics

• The way to be a man if you're a little boy is to be willing to throw your weight around.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Man
  • You
  • Boy

• I auditioned 5-6 times for 'Dangal.' I was just waiting for the final call, as there were about 15-16 girls who auditioned for the role.

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
  • Waiting
  • Call
  • Final

• One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Feel
  • Hell
  • Walk

• I will not say sorry and be pardoned for doing a godly act.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Sorry

• When I was writing songs or performing or producing or dabbling in movies or even putting my career on hold to go to art school, I was just following my muse. A woman who did that then was criticized for having no direction. Today they call it versatility.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Writing
  • School
  • Art

• It was no more nor less than true. You do things by doing things, not by not doing them. No more crazy upsidedownness, he resolved. Good was better than bad. Good environments are better than bad environments.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Good
  • Bad
  • True

• I wasn't recommending that we make the links for them, only provide them with the tools to do so if they want to take the gamble (or the gambol).

  

  Larry Wall

• Can you imagine me coming to this country to blow up a post office? I told them, 'My bombs are my books.'

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Up
  • Country
  • Blow

• We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman,-scorned, slighted, dismissed without a parting pang.

  

  Colley Cibber

• Our knowledge of human nature is for the most part empirical; and it would often be better, if, instead of endeavouring to say some new things ourselves, we were to confirm without more words the sayings of another.

  

  Arthur Helps
  • Nature
  • Words
  • Knowledge

• You gotta know how to get to people's heart

  

  Ray Charles
  • People
  • Heart

• They walked for a while, all silent in their thoughts, until they reached the car and Alec drew a fine telescope from his shirt and handed it to Milo. "Carry this with you on your journey," he said softly, "for there is much worth noticing that often escapes the eye. Through it you can see everything from the tender moss in a sidewalk crack to the glow of the farthest star — and, most important of all, you can see things as they really are, not just as they seem to be. It's my gift to you.

  

  Norton Juster
  • Important
  • Car
  • Eye

• Industrial opportunities are going to stem more from the biological sciences than from chemistry and physics. I see biology as being the greatest area of scientific breakthroughs in the next generation.

  

  George E. Brown, Jr.

• One things guys have to remember is consistency... You can't make up for three years of eating poorly in just one workout.

  

  Apolo Ohno
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Guys

• The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web, bringing people, languages, ideas, and values together.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Writing
  • Invention
  • Wright Brothers

• Art is consumed in so many different ways. You could say people don't stop to appreciate art. On the other hand, people can consume art more quickly.

  

  Ben Sollee
  • Art Is
  • Consume
  • Different Ways

• We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.

  

  Billy Wilder