Ian Watson Quotes

Every joke in 'The Office' was unexpected. I cringed; I could hardly look. I cried with laughter.

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• We shred every day.

  

  Fawn Hall
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Every

• I don't mind being interviewed on television or radio.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Mind
  • Television
  • Radio

• I quite like Low, the band from Minnesota. They're absolutely mesmerizing. I get much the same feeling from anything that Will Oldham does.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Feeling
  • Band
  • Same

• If you say something that undermines the stability of the country, then you have to be held accountable.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Country
  • You
  • Stability

• Nothing graces the Christian soul so much as mercy; mercy as shown chiefly towards the poor, that thou mayest treat them as sharers in common with thee in the produce of nature, which brings forth the fruits of the earth for use to all.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Nature
  • Soul
  • Earth

• But who knows, some years from now if there's a global emissions trading scheme agreement, as many have hoped for, then I'm sure Australia would be part of it.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Now
  • Agreement
  • Australia

• I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.

  

  Idris Elba
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I first read Heinlein when I was very young.

  

  Pamela Dean
  • Young
  • First
  • Very

• In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • True
  • Painting
  • Idea

• I don't know how to say no, and that's a weakness.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Know
  • Say
  • Weakness

• The historian is a prophet looking backward.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Looking
  • Prophet
  • Backward

• As far as everyone else's opinion, I mean, if I would have thought that everyone was right, I probably wouldn't have left Compton, so I don't get too caught up on what the next person thinks.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Up
  • Mean
  • Opinion

• I grew up in the South and went to church a lot.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Up
  • Church
  • Lot

• I don't want to subject myself just to one scheme. I think it's just if you can play, you can play no matter what scheme you play in.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Think
  • Want
  • Myself

• People always say, and my family has said it to me, that you know who your real friends are when you're at your lowest point and you don't have a job or whatever.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
  • People
  • Real
  • Family

• The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Truth
  • Study
  • Introduction

• You never want to sound bitter about critics, because they're entitled to do their job, too, but I place much more trust in a person who I can look in the eye and someone who I know I share some kind of taste with - so my friends, for instance. For me, a critic is unknown and therefore irrelevant.

  

  Laura Donnelly
  • Job
  • Friends
  • Trust

• 'The Moon Rabbit' is laying against the bunker, dreaming and thinking about life and dreaming the impossible possible and creating its own true stories.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • True

• Well, you know, it's a younger person, and it was maybe an effort to be a little more sincere and adult about the lyrics occasionally, which is a good thing. It's nice that it's not too self-conscious like some of our lyrics could be.

  

  Stephen Malkmus Pavement
  • Younger
  • Sincere
  • Self-Conscious

• I found marriage somewhat stifling. I don't know that I am the kind of man who ought to be married.

  

  Burt Lancaster
  • Marriage

• Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • Peace
  • Laughter

• Call a truce, then, to our labors - let us feast with friends and neighbors, and be merry as the custom of our caste; for if ''faint and forced the laughter,'' and if sadness follow after, we are richer by one mocking Christmas past.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Christmas
  • Laughter
  • Neighbors

• If conversation was the lyrics, laughter was the music, making time spent together a melody that could be replayed over and over without getting stale.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Music
  • Laughter
  • Lyrics

• Every joke in 'The Office' was unexpected. I cringed; I could hardly look. I cried with laughter.

  

  Ian Watson
  • Look
  • Laughter
  • Unexpected