Bob Woodward Quotes

There's hostility to lying, and there should be.

Bob Woodward

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• There was this old soccer game called 'Goal' for the old Nintendo, and ever since then, I've played everything from the old school games to the 360.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • School
  • Game
  • Goal

• I'd want to read the stories that I'd written, I'd want to show the drawings that I made. That was just purely natural. So I knew I wanted to go into the arts in some way and that I'd want to show that work in some way.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Work
  • Want
  • Just

• Be true to yourself and go with your instincts - don't be somebody you're not just to fit in.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • True
  • Yourself
  • Be True

• President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • People
  • Government
  • Promise

• I'm in production year round. I work long hours. I have a dog and a wife. There's not a lot of available time for consuming any culture: T.V., movies, books. When I read, it's generally magazines, newspapers and web sites.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Time
  • Work
  • Long

• Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • People
  • Life
  • Habit

• I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • God
  • Rights
  • Capitalism

• Technology keeps progressing. Young people follow the curve. But as they get older, they get inertia, and they start deviating from that curve.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
  • People
  • Technology
  • Start

• Who doesn't love a funny girl who can look sexy at the same time?

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Love
  • Girl
  • Funny

• I was a typical Valley teen, in smoggy Van Nuys.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Teen
  • Valley
  • Typical

• I will confess I did none of my own singing. I did all my own costume and makeup, though.

  

  Gary Cole
  • Singing
  • Makeup
  • Costume

• Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Good
  • Learning
  • Brain

• The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.

  

  Orson Welles
  • You
  • Playing
  • Flying

• I know I should feel anger at my father for certain things. But since he died when I was 11, I never got to that point.

  

  Nathaniel Kahn
  • Father
  • Know
  • Anger

• Armageddon is not a foreign policy.

  

  Madeleine Albright

• If someone gives money to Apollonius, and the giver is someone considered respectable, he will take the money if he needs it. But he will not accept a fee for philosophy even if he does need it.

  

  Apollonius of Tyana
  • Money

• For it is not enough just to give men rights. They must be able to use those rights in their personal pursuit of happiness.

  

  Lyndon B. Johnson
  • Men

• We should venture on the study of every kind of animal without distaste; for each and all will reveal to us something natural and something beautiful.

  

  Aristotle
  • Beautiful
  • Study
  • Animal

• Value will always be on top of everyone's lists now, right along with safety.

  

  David Neeleman
  • Value
  • Safety

• When it comes to being a techie, I'm always precise about the things that I want to know. I love understanding how things work.

  

  Michiel Huisman
  • Understanding
  • Precise
  • Techie

• Leeks, like other oniony things, reach a certain peak when fried. It's the subtle sweetness that suddenly becomes evident and works so well with their creamy texture.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Reach
  • Sweetness
  • Peak

• It's an addiction... and addiction is something I should know something about.

  

  Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
  • Addiction

• My phone rings, they call me up and say, 'Chael, your testosterone level is too high.' I say, 'Well, how high was it?' They say, '0.7.' I said, 'What's normal?' They say, '0.6.'; I said, 'One-tenth? You're telling me I'm one-tenth higher than the average man? Re-test that - you must have caught me on a low day.'

  

  Chael Sonnen
  • Normal
  • Levels
  • Average

• There's hostility to lying, and there should be.

  

  Bob Woodward