Philip Winchester Quotes

Television is fickle, and it's fleeting.

Philip Winchester

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• We were five kids at home, and my mother and grandmother ensured that we all had a very grounded upbringing in Madras. Even in school, I never used to tell anyone that my dad was an actor.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • School
  • Home
  • Kids

• At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.

  

  Tabitha Soren
  • Humor
  • Going
  • Grandparents

• Power is, in its nature, encroaching; and such is the human make that men who are vested with a share of it are generally inclined to take more than it was intended they should have.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Men
  • Power
  • Nature

• When I was a child - in wartime, pre-television - books were my life.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Life
  • Child
  • My Life

• The press doesn't stop publishing, by the way, in a fascist escalation; it simply watches what it says. That too can be an incremental process, and the pace at which the free press polices itself depends on how journalists are targeted.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Free
  • Stop
  • Process

• There is no suspense in inevitability.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Suspense
  • Inevitability

• It is clear that if we are going to understand ocean ecosystems, we need to understand the part that bioluminescence plays in those ecosystems.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Understand
  • Need
  • Ocean

• You never know what the future brings.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • Future
  • Know
  • Never

• When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • People
  • Speak
  • Intelligent

• The Republican Party's history is rich and chock full of emancipation and black history.

  

  Rand Paul
  • History
  • Black
  • Party

• When I came to know that I have to do a dance sequence with him, I was nervous. After all, he is Hrithik Roshan.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Know
  • Dance
  • Nervous

• After student years of flat-sharing and living with other people's taste, I went into decorating overdrive when I acquired my first apartment - its floor plan not much bigger than the vintage Hermes scarves I then wore side-knotted on my head, pirate-style.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • People
  • Style
  • Student

• I love the Bible. I read it every day. I spend 10 hours a week studying it. It has affected my life in profound ways. I am inspired when I read it.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • Life
  • Day
  • Inspired

• I never took any elocution lessons, no diction lessons. I might have been a pretty decent broadcaster if I had, but what you see, I'm afraid, is what you get.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Pretty
  • You
  • See

• Modern medical advances have helped millions of people live longer, healthier lives. We owe these improvements to decades of investment in medical research.

  

  Ike Skelton
  • People
  • Live
  • Research

• I cook. I walk. I go to the movies. I meditate.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Movies
  • Walk
  • Cook

• Wherever there is greater joy, there is the direction of everyone’s activity, because the innermost of everyone is really the lighted lamp of Total Knowledge, total organising power of knowledge, it’s all bliss, it’s not necessary for the people to suffer.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • People
  • Power
  • Knowledge

• Leadership is understanding people and involving them to help you do a job. That takes all of the good characteristics, like integrity, dedication of purpose, selflessness, knowledge, skill, implacability, as well as determination not to accept failure.

  

  Arleigh Burke
  • People
  • Good
  • Job

• The political system of the People's Republic of China can make things easy. Decisions are made quickly and results come quickly, too. In our democracy [in India], on the other hand, such things are extremely difficult.

  

  Ratan Tata
  • People
  • Political
  • Decision

• I have a piano in my kitchen. I read a great biography about Tom Waits that said that he had a piano in his kitchen; he had a grand piano in his kitchen. And I thought, 'Well, if Tom Waits has one, then I must.'

  

  Jamie Cullum
  • Great
  • Kitchen

• The public has always, and in every age, been badly brought up. They are continually asking Art to be popular, to please their want of taste, to flatter their absurd vanity, to tell them what they have been told before, to show them what they ought to be tired of seeing, to amuse them when they feel heavy after eating too much, and to distract their thoughts when they are wearied of their own stupidity.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Art
  • Thoughts
  • Public

• I don't think I'll ever feel like I'm cancer-free.

  

  Cobie Smulders
  • Free
  • Cancer

• Television is fickle, and it's fleeting.

  

  Philip Winchester