Douglas Horton Quotes

He stands erect by bending over the fallen. He rises by lifting others.

Douglas Horton

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• 'Grey's Anatomy' is a very culturally diverse show.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Show
  • Very
  • Grey

• Everybody has their struggles.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Everybody
  • Struggles

• Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Smart
  • Emotion
  • Face

• Usually Mexico, or always Mexico has defended itself and its territory.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Always
  • Mexico
  • Territory

• With all due respect to the people who made the motorcycle movies during the '60s, I felt the sophistication level could be a bit higher, and I felt I could raise the bar on that, too.

  

  Larry Bishop
  • People
  • Respect
  • Motorcycle

• There's something healing about tears.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Tears
  • Something
  • Healing

• I don't think I would change anything. I think we've done a fairly good job of remaining sane and making the right decisions.

  

  Washed Out
  • Good
  • Done
  • Job

• To do art, one thing should always remember - subjects of people in misery have deep meanings.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • People
  • Art
  • Remember

• I was born with more power inside myself than I ever dreamed. But along with it there came no more sense than any other idiotic kid. Somewhere along in here I need to grow up into a man I can stand to live with. A man who doesn't just survive, but deserves to.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Up
  • Live
  • Power

• I don't know why black skin may not cover a true heart as well as a white one.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Heart
  • Why
  • May

• To organize work in such a manner that it becomes meaningless, boring, stultifying, or nerve-racking for the worker would be little short of criminal; it would indicate a greater concern with goods than with people, an evil lack of compassion and a soul-destroying degree of attachment to the most primitive side of this worldly existence.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • People
  • Work
  • Soul

• Human beings, from their own point of view, are very different than what people see.

  

  Kurt Russell
  • People
  • Different

• I was able to turn to classical music many people, who saw my programs live and on YouTube, and this is one of the nicest achievements I can have.

  

  Aleksey Igudesman
  • People
  • Music
  • Live

• Every time I give a talk, I ask the audience - especially if it's kids - how many want to go to Mars. At least half raise their hands. I don't think there's going to be any shortage of volunteers.

  

  Ellen Stofan
  • Time
  • Kids

• I think TV is a fantastic medium right now because of what you can do visually. It's phenomenal, and it's just getting better and better, but in a way, there's no beating the personal image you can create in your head, with those personal aspects, which you can only get from reading or radio dramas.

  

  Colin Morgan
  • Reading

• There's always going to be people who say, 'This ain't country.' But that's fine; that's how it is. Those same people aren't listening to Sam Hunt, aren't listening to FGL. But obviously, a lot of people are.

  

  Chris Lane
  • People
  • Country
  • Listening

• I have an inability to relax. I try to make every day a work day. I get pleasure from work... I try to think of sketch ideas, stand-up pieces. I am incapable of leisure and leisure time.

  

  Fred Armisen
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• Christmas brings us great music: Everything from Handel's 'Messiah' to 'White Christmas,' to 'I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus.'

  

  Alan Colmes
  • Great
  • Music
  • Christmas

• Ah, wasteful woman, she who mayOn her sweet self set her own price,Knowing man cannot choose but pay,How has she cheapen'd paradise;How given for nought her priceless gift,How spoil'd the bread and spill'd the wine,Which, spent with due, respective thrift,Had made brutes men, and men divine.

  

  Coventry Patmore
  • Men
  • She
  • Sweet

• I think it's important to cultivate as many people as you can to see which ones you jive with. And it makes you happy. If one dies, you have another one. So living is a process that you have to do by yourself, and if you can learn a few little goodies along the way that might make it easier for you, so much the better.

  

  Johnny Mathis
  • People
  • Important
  • Happy

• We strive to be in time and in tune, then capture the emotion.

  

  Steve Gustafson 10,000 Maniacs
  • Emotion
  • Capture
  • Tune

• I've learned a lot about myself. Most of it is all right. When I add up the pluses and subtract the minuses, I still come out pretty well.

  

  Betty Ford
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Stills

• Lifting her head, she joined in as the others in the group began to howl in response to Brace's triumph. The sound was . . . It touched the soul, the music haunting, starkly pure and yet so very earthy.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Music
  • She
  • Soul

• He stands erect by bending over the fallen. He rises by lifting others.

  

  Douglas Horton
  • Lifting