Dick Van Dyke Quotes

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Dick Van Dyke

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• When you wash your hands, when you make a cup of coffee, when you're waiting for the elevator - instead of indulging in thinking, these are all opportunities for being there as a still, alert presence.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Thinking
  • Waiting
  • Coffee

• I would love to win the Champions League once again. Winning big trophies like the Champions League or the World Cup is usually making people think, 'The players are not hungry any more.' Still, that's not what I feel.

  

  Bastian Schweinsteiger
  • People
  • Think
  • Like

• Every job is important because each one represents an American's livelihood and ability to raise a family. Yet spending our time building walls around America will do nothing to help us compete for the millions of new jobs being created.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Time
  • Important
  • Family

• I'm an intense guy. I run 10 miles a day, which helps alleviate my intensity. Also, singing helps defuse my intensity. Playing the piano helps, and writing helps.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Writing
  • Guy
  • Day

• I really like playing good guys, of course. Although, people make mistakes in their lives, and you could say that the mistakes make us who we are, by how we respond to them. I just don't want to play boring good guys, but I don't have that problem, anyway.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • People
  • Good
  • Problem

• It's fun to be an actor and dress up, but I'm happy being me and just loving accepting my personal style.

  

  India de Beaufort
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Fun

• Time dissolves in summer anyway: days are long, weekends longer. Hours get all thin and watery when you are lost in the book you'd never otherwise have time to read. Senses are sharper - something about the moist air and bright light and fruit in season - and so memories stir and startle.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Time
  • Long
  • Book

• I fully credit my family for keeping me grounded and for putting me back in line whenever necessary.

  

  Camilla Belle
  • Family
  • Necessary
  • Keeping

• People were already beginning to forget, what horrible suffering the war had brought them. I did not want to cause fear and panic, but to let people know how dreadful war is and so to stimulate people's powers of resistance.

  

  Otto Dix
  • People
  • War
  • Fear

• I'm always telling students when I do a master class on audiobooks: 'Watch Meryl Streep. Watch her disappear into a role; watch what she does.'

  

  Barbara Rosenblat
  • Role
  • Master
  • Disappear

• The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.

  

  Maimonides
  • Decision
  • Risk
  • Chance

• The moral and intellectual character of the Africans is widely different in different nations.

  

  Samuel George Morton
  • Different
  • Character
  • Moral

• I think Hillary Clinton could do whatever she puts her mind to. I really do. She's incredibly dedicated to public service, she is smart as a whip, and she's effective.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Mind
  • Smart
  • Effective

• A field of clay touched by the genius of man becomes a castle.

  

  Og Mandino

• If you're right, and nobody really cares what’s out there, I wonder whether we’re even worth saving.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Wonder

• The kids were both adolescents, at that happy stage where they could simultaneously make him confident about the future while they were sabotaging the present.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Kids
  • Happy
  • Future

• If one defends the bourgeois, philistine virtues, one does not defend them merely from the demonism or bohemianism of the artist but from the present bourgeoisie itself.

  

  Lionel Trilling
  • Present

• Opportunities may come along for you to convert something-something that exists into something that didn't yet.

  

  Bob Dylan
  • May

• For some the wind can fleshly blow, for some the sunlight fade at ease, but we, made partners in our dread, hear but the grating of the keys, and heavy-booted soldiers' tread. As if for early mass, we rose and each day walked the wilderness, trudging through silent street and square, to congregate, less live than dead.

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Live
  • Wind
  • Blow

• I'm amazed how the tiniest moments grow into books.

  

  Kimberly Willis Holt
  • Moments

• I love going to football games and going to homecoming dances and just doing normal things.

  

  Madison Pettis
  • Football
  • Things
  • Games

• Cézanne's painting is strictly painting, and its value is immense; but Van Gogh's painting has the Outsider's characteristic: it is a laboratory refuse of a man who treated his own life as an experiment in living; it faithfully records moods and developments of vision on the manner of a Bildungsroman.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • Life
  • Vision
  • Painting

• Getting into television was a total fluke.

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • Television
  • Flukes

• Pandering to the scandal hungry public is a total lack of responsible journalism.

  

  Dick Van Dyke