Franklin Pierce Adams Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
The PBSI (Indonesian Badminton Association) have to work harder to widen the pool and find quality players. The present indifferent culture has to change.
-
The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.
-
I'm from working-class, blue-collar America, and I don't believe that people in that socioeconomic strata wait until they're 40 to have children.
-
I get bored. We seem to have been having a little bit more time off this winter than last winter. I'm always itching to get back in the car. It's going to get harder, so I've got to make sure that I'm doing everything I possibly can do to make sure I can start next season how I ended this season.
-
Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.
-
Boundaries are actually the main factor in space, just as the present, another boundary, is the main factor in time.
-
It's very easy to be judgmental until you know someone's truth.
-
I usually get up between 7 A.M. and 8 A.M., have coffee, and go right to work. It's really important not to get sidetracked in the morning so I'm still in that dreamy state for my writing.
-
I didn't start off as a journalist; I started off as a poet. My ambition was to practise poetry. Then I found journalism, but that other voice never fled from me.
-
When you're just like everybody else, you've nothing to offer other than your conformity.
-
I am lactose intolerant, and I always thought it was really funny how people who are lactose intolerant continue to eat dairy, because they like it so much. And I find it not acceptable.
-
The stage is a place where I can be wholly myself. Even though you're in front of people almost to be judged, it is a place without judgement.
-
If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-
People like me who were engaging in brinkmanship with the party economic bosses and the open dissidents who were being arrested were pursuing a common goal in different ways.
-
Joe Jackson was a tragic figure. He was a serene country boy who signed a confession he couldn't read. He was illiterate.
-
I can plunk out enough chords to write a song, but I'm completely afraid to play guitar in front of other people. It's a fear of failure, I guess.
-
'Steve Jobs' is my seventh movie. I believe, if you added them up, I don't think there is more than a total of 10 minutes that takes place in a person's home. They're all in offices, courtrooms, laboratories, things like that.
-
I had been working in colour for ten years or so and looked at digital and liked the possibilities it gave me.
-
I do have a regular childhood.
-
Love's stories written in love's richest books. To fan the moonbeams from his sleeping eyes.
-
Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.
-
The first country to adopt happiness as an official goal of public policy is the tiny little country of Bhutan in Asia near China and India.
-
Taught to regard a part of our own Species in the most abject and contemptible Degree below us, we lose that Idea of the dignity of Man which the Hand of Nature had implanted in us, for great and useful purposes.
-
You do not know what you can miss before you try.
