Boris Becker Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties.
-
I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
-
For me, compatibility is a sense of humour, being able to laugh together; that is very important.
-
I have had an amazing career for a man who hits things for a living.
-
If you want, you can have a coffin made out of cardboard or wicker or papier mache. There's one like a seed pod, or you could buy one that doubles as both a bookcase and a coffin. During your life, you stand it in your living room, and then after you die, the books are taken out and your body put in their place and the whole thing buried.
-
In the course of the reform, some new circumstances that we had not anticipated have appeared.
-
At first, because this genre of music was so urban, sometimes we would sing songs that were so aggressive. And my parents didn't like it. They would break my cassettes and say, 'That music is garbage.'
-
I've never seen anyone - and I've had the opportunity to work with some really terrific actors in my time - but Philip Seymour Hoffman is definitely the best I ever had the opportunity to work with.
-
I can afford to say what I wish.
-
Frankly, I thought we would have lost the House by now.
-
Each week I try to have three lunches with my children, one working lunch, and one lunch with mates.
-
To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
-
When people make donations to non profits, they want to know that their money goes to good use.
-
When people ask me what the most important thing is in life, I answer: 'Just breathe.'
-
It was a strike against me that I didn't wear baggy jeans and jerseys and that I never hustled, never sold drugs.
-
I'm looking for things where, like with 'Ten,' I don't look like me, and I'm playing something a bit different. I'm just trying to flex a different muscle and see if it works. I've saved the world and killed monsters and done all that. Now I want to try something a bit different and a bit more challenging.
-
I know the situations that we do every week are all ones that I encounter in my life or will encounter.
-
The missiles come first, and the justifications come second.
-
Courage, so far as it is a sign of race, is peculiarly the mark of a gentleman or a lady; but it becomes vulgar if rude or insensitive, while timidity is not vulgar, if it be a characteristic of race or fineness of make. A fawn is not vulgar in being timid, nor a crocodile "gentle" because courageous.
-
Materiam superabat opus
-
Deliberately or not, every author is of course present in every book he or she writes - even in a scientific text.
-
I don't condone anyone causing damage in my name, or doing anything malicious in support of my plight. There are more productive ways to help me. As a hacker myself, I never intentionally damaged anything.
-
There is also an epidemic of infertility in this country. There are more women who have put off child-bearing in favor of their professional lives. For them, the only way they are going to have a family is to adopt from China.
-
For a year, I had all sorts of weirdos coming on to me.
