Frank Muir Quotes

The speeches to be wary of are those that begin with I'm just going to say a few words.

Frank Muir

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• If you ask an economist what's driven economic growth, it's been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that.

  

  Larry Page
  • Society
  • Problem
  • Growth

• I don't write the books. God writes the books and delivers the speeches.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • God
  • Write
  • Speeches

• I've never been a person to share my private life, but I can help save lives.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Life
  • Help
  • Never

• Ottawa is a hot spot of Canadian crime writing, with perhaps the greatest concentration of active, involved, published crime writers anywhere.

  

  Vicki Delany
  • Writing
  • Crime
  • Greatest

• If there's a major foreign policy event, the President gets on TV, the Congress doesn't.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Event
  • Foreign Policy

• I don't like giving speeches - I enjoy sitting on my rump.

  

  Karen Morley
  • Giving
  • Enjoy
  • Speeches

• I've always gone for the more understated look.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Always
  • Look
  • More

• I don't live for the accolades. I'm more so about the music. Making it, and putting it out. Those are the two best feelings.

  

  J. Cole
  • Music
  • Live
  • Best

• It was one of the dullest speeches I ever heard. The Agee woman told us for three quarters of an hour how she came to write her beastly book, when a simple apology was all that was required.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Book
  • Simple
  • Apology

• I just think that the independent voters are going to take their time and look at both candidates.

  

  Jim Talent
  • Time
  • Independent

• Even when I finished third at the U.S. Open a few weeks back, I didn't putt very well, nor in the last round of last year's Masters when Mickelson won, nor last year's Open at Turnberry, where I came second.

  

  Lee Westwood

• For contemporary fashion, I'm a huge fan of so many of the people out there. I think Azzedine Alaia holds up through three generations of very specific, beautiful design. I think Jean Paul Gaultier also is very interesting with a long span.

  

  Colleen Atwood
  • People
  • Up
  • Long

• I'm a really goofy person most of the time, and I have to sometimes temper my hyper self on set.

  

  Lauren Cohan
  • Time

• My ideas come, wh-pheww. And I draw. Just recently, when I'm searching for ideas for paintings and sculptures, I wait for ideas, and it's always visual.

  

  Ellsworth Kelly

• I never thought about branding when we were starting our production company.

  

  Mark Duplass

• Some day we'll move into space and start ensuring the survival of our species beyond Earth, whether it happens in a hundred years or a thousand.

  

  Neil Turok
  • Earth
  • Space
  • Survival

• Mobility in India is going to be different from the West. In America, people would look at an autorickshaw and say, 'This is a passing thing.' But in India, you know it will stay because it is fast and convenient.

  

  Bhavish Aggarwal
  • People
  • Different
  • America

• Athletes are given a really special platform. It's our duty, as athletes, to be role models.

  

  Adam Rippon

• She gave the most stirring speeches, ... and she was never afraid to ask for money. Once when I was speaking at a rally, she grabbed the mike and told me to be more forceful in my fund-raising pitch. The crowd loved it; I think we raised $90,000 that day.

  

  Eleanor Smeal
  • Money
  • She
  • Speeches

• It's interesting because I laugh and tell people when I give speeches, ' I know what y'all think, oh we love Ed, but he's kinda stuck up or he's kinda this or he's kinda that.'

  

  Ed Gordon
  • Interesting
  • Laugh
  • Speeches

• Succeeding in life is a difficult business - you need to work 16 hours a day, face failures along the way, remember that nobody owes you a thing, and take risks.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Life
  • Work
  • Business

• To book commercials, you do something to get to a callback, and once you get to the callback, you've got three minutes to get the people to want to hang out with you for a day.

  

  Scoot McNairy
  • People
  • Book
  • Minutes

• Writing a book is a tremendous experience. It pays off intellectually. It clarifies your thinking. It builds credibility. It is a living engine of marketing and idea spreading, working every day to deliver your message with authority. You should write one.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Book

• The speeches to be wary of are those that begin with I'm just going to say a few words.

  

  Frank Muir
  • Speeches
  • Few Words