Jay Weatherill Quotes

Civility is perhaps a quaint notion but civility in Parliament is something we should always strive to uphold.

Jay Weatherill

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• Yes, it's annoying that Hamlet doesn't kill his stepfather ten minutes into the play, but if he did kill his stepfather ten minutes into the play, there wouldn't be a play. He has to be annoying, if you will, and not do what would be the thing to do.

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • You
  • Play
  • Will

• In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.

  

  B. Carroll Reece
  • Live
  • Grow
  • Old-fashioned

• I believe in the 'Wal-Mart' school of business. The less people pay, the more they enjoy it.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • People
  • Believe
  • School

• Of the 25 songs we've recorded there were 24 that we wanted to have on an album. That wouldn't have worked. So when one of our wise managers suggested the idea of considering two different album, it cleared the way for us.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Different
  • Way
  • Wise

• Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Will
  • Knife
  • Sharpening

• I think Jennifer Lawrence is a brilliant role model for young girls, not some of the models that I see on the runway.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Think
  • Model
  • Young

• I love the sense of how time passes when I'm acting. When you're not aware of the clock ticking, that is always a good sign you're enjoying something.

  

  Hannah Ware
  • Time
  • Sense
  • Enjoying

• I'm pretty stubborn.

  

  Bart Stupak
  • Pretty
  • Stubborn

• I would not trade you a billion dollars for the kids I led to combat in Vietnam or in fact any of the Marines that I served with for a quarter of a century.

  

  Oliver North
  • Kids
  • You
  • Trade

• I really feel sorry for new generation. It's hard to find backbone. I never had crisis of identity. But I think many Americans have it.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Identity
  • Sorry
  • Generation

• If you try to make money doing something you're not enjoying, it's a hard way to make money.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Money
  • Doing
  • Try

• You're only as good as your last record and you could get dropped.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Good
  • You
  • Last

• There is only one Whedon, and I am his prophet.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss

• All I do is track a profane route to something (I hope) profound. Like swimming a river of shit for a kiss.

  

  Chuck Palahniuk
  • Hope
  • Kiss
  • Profound

• There are always good parts. They may not pay what you want, and they may not have as many days' work as you want, they may not have the billing that you want, they may not have a lot of things, but - the content of the role itself - I find there are many roles.

  

  Anne Bancroft
  • Good
  • Work
  • May

• The same way people are now paying a couple thousand dollars to fly to other parts of the world, people will be paying $50,000 to spend a weekend on a space station.

  

  Alan Shepard
  • People
  • World
  • Space

• If in the midst of the many Dissatisfaction among us, the publication of these Trials may promote such a pious Thankfulness unto God, for Justice being so far executed among us, I shall Re-joyce that God is Glorified...

  

  Cotton Mather
  • God
  • May
  • Justice

• Let me make one thing absolutely clear. The National Health Service is safe with us.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • Health
  • Service

• At first we will only skim the surface of the earth like young starlings, but soon, emboldened by practice and experience, we will spring into the air with the impetuousness of the eagle, diverting ourselves by watching the childish behavior of the little men or awling miserably around on the earth below us.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Men
  • Experience
  • Earth

• All praise is to Allah, I'll fight any man, any animal, if Jesus were here I'd fight him too.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Jesus
  • Fight
  • Praise

• When people meet me I think they're surprised to find out I'm not always angst-ridden.

  

  Martin Gore Depeche Mode
  • People

• 'You finally fell in love, I see,' said Salo.'Only an Earthling year ago,' said Constant. 'It took us that long to realize that a purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • Life
  • Long
  • Purpose

• Civility is perhaps a quaint notion but civility in Parliament is something we should always strive to uphold.

  

  Jay Weatherill