James Dyson Quotes

I've fought court battles over my inventions before.

James Dyson

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• I'm greedy, and I have a house to pay for and a wife. She has a job of her own, but I bleed her dry. She's on her third shift right now.

  

  Dana Snyder
  • She
  • Job
  • House

• My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Good
  • She
  • Mother

• Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • History
  • Generation
  • Irish

• You can't change the market; the market just is.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • You
  • Change
  • Market

• Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • World
  • Happy
  • You

• If people think they've found my biggest weakness, let them try to take advantage of it.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • People
  • Think
  • Weakness

• Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • You
  • Rich
  • Will

• I grew up very differently than a lot of other people in my hometown in Mississippi. But I can't imagine my life any other way. I flew home and surprised my best friend at his graduation, and I remember turning to my mom and saying, 'My graduation was so much cooler than this.' I had Melissa Joan Hart give my commencement speech.

  

  Taylor Spreitler
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• With a genre like film noir, everyone has these assumptions and expectations. And once all of those things are in place, that's when you can really start to twist it about and mess around with it.

  

  Lana Wachowski
  • Place
  • Start
  • Expectations

• Recognize that the great majority of us aren't trained actors and entertainers. Usually, it's not our faces, our bodies, our personas or our stage presence that sells our books. It's our stories, our visions and our voices.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Great
  • Stage
  • Presence

• For some reason, people with comedy, any time they can detect a pattern, it kind of freaks them out. 'Those guys are always together!' Yeah, they're a comedy team. Anything they can recognize as a pattern they think is a hole.

  

  Adam McKay
  • People
  • Time
  • Together

• I'm trying to get people to see that we are our brother's keeper. Red, white, black, brown or yellow, rich or poor, we all have the blues.

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • Trying
  • Black

• Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way, the hardest thing about writing poetry is waiting for that music, and sometimes you never know if it's going to come.

  

  C. K. Williams
  • Music
  • Different
  • Writing

• As a solo performer, it's total involvement. What I do is to break down the wall between audience and performer.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Wall
  • Down
  • Solo

• Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • World
  • Bad
  • Game

• All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Men
  • Myself
  • Difference

• The third point is that for some time the UN has been talking about helping Afghanistan in the reconstruction of the country but there has never been any real commitment by the international community to provide resources for that.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • Time
  • Country
  • Real

• I know not whether Laws be right,Or whether Laws be wrong;All that we know who lie in gaolIs that the wall is strong;And that each day is like a year,A year whose days are long.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Strong
  • Know
  • Right

• We are responsible for our own destiny. What matters is how we improve ourselves from this moment forward.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • inspirational
  • Destiny
  • What Matters

• The discoveries of how we can grow and the insights we need to have really come from the inside out. To have genuine empathy, not as a make-nice tool but as an understanding, is essential to the next step.

  

  Patricia Sun
  • Nice
  • Understanding
  • Grow

• I always knew that someone was going to come at me with a script to play God. It's just one of those things, the way your career is unfolding and all the talk about gravitas etc etc, so I had a strong feeling that someone was going to offer me the part of God. I was totally prepared to say, 'Thanks but no thanks,' unless it was a comedy.

  

  Morgan Freeman
  • God
  • Play
  • Script

• Movies are a couple of hours, while books transport you for days or weeks. You can live in the pages of a book.

  

  Bella Andre
  • Movies
  • Books
  • Transport

• I like the Victory rolls, beehive, pompadour - all of that stuff. It's just cool. And actually, with ethnic hair, oddly enough, it works so well because I don't have to tease my hair to get body.

  

  Andra Day
  • Cool
  • Hair
  • Victory

• I've fought court battles over my inventions before.

  

  James Dyson