Jayson Williams Quotes

We're like Iraq. We're hiding missiles. We've got two missiles in reserve.

Jayson Williams

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• As there is in Germany - as well as in Russia and Italy - no art which is not approved of by the government, any criticizing remark about the present policy made by me would easily be taken as a hostile act. I cannot have my name put up against an official report from Germany without risking very unpleasant consequences.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Up
  • Art
  • Government

• Really, I have to laugh because there was a whole set of stories that made me sound like the Dragon Lady, you know, 'tough this and tough that.' Then there is this business about 'gooey.' The bottom line is I am a pragmatic idealist.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Business
  • Tough
  • Idealist

• Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Diversity
  • Just
  • Big

• I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

  

  Mae West
  • Temptation
  • Resist
  • Unless

• For me, I think there's a lot more room in cable television to tell broader stories. NBC and the networks, they're all very mainstream, and they're a little more conservative in how they approach storytelling.

  

  Gabriel Macht
  • Stories
  • Approach
  • Conservative

• Monkeys don't enjoy or appreciate flavours. Experts have told us that human beings are the only beings that can appreciate food at this higher level and the only living beings that cook.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Food
  • Enjoy
  • Appreciate

• Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet.

  

  Cameron Bright
  • Sweet
  • Breathe
  • Underwater

• Life at a public company ain't for me. The board pays you what you're worth, then you get reamed for your compensation.

  

  Irving Azoff
  • Life
  • Me
  • Company

• Don't forget I'm from a military family. I was in special training in the army. I am tall, sporty and - how do you say - you can always protect yourself... I have very strong security.

  

  Oleg Deripaska
  • Family
  • Strong
  • Training

• I try to work on my defense every game, every practice.

  

  Oscar Taveras
  • Work
  • Game
  • Practice

• When they favor the access of other people to education and health care, the countries of the North not only demonstrate generosity or solidarity, but also implement the principles of respecting and promoting human rights.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • People
  • Education
  • Health

• Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Way
  • Person
  • Certainly

• Bathrooms are, on a square foot basis, the most expensive room in the house to renovate. If you want to test your heart's fitness, try shopping for simple bathroom faucets. Add in the cost of the required valves, mixers and trims, and you may need reviving when you see the tally!

  

  Candice Olson
  • Heart
  • May
  • House

• Fairytales work on two levels. On a conscious level, they are stories of true love and triumph and overcoming difficult odds and so are pleasurable to read. But they work on a deeper and symbolic level in that they play out our universal psychological dramas and hidden desires and fears.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • Stories
  • Desires
  • Fears

• It was not until the civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s that Congress got serious about the assignment laid out in the post-Civil War amendments.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • War
  • Serious
  • Civil War

• As women, we're probably more protective of children. Also, we've been minors all of our history.

  

  Kate Millett
  • Women
  • Children
  • History

• Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Great
  • Secret
  • Events

• East is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of people; they are not merely inhabitants of a State.

  

  O. Henry
  • People
  • Race
  • San Francisco

• I was an all-around player - if I was just a scorer, there's no way the Hawks would have won 50 games four years in a row.

  

  Dominique Wilkins
  • Player

• When Rose McDermott, a professor of political science at Brown University, got divorced two years ago, she noticed that a cluster of her friends were splitting up at around the same time.

  

  Katie Hafner
  • Up
  • Time
  • She

• The thing I love most about going on vacation is that I get to leave behind any kind of schedule. My entire life is scheduled from morning to night, and when I'm on vacation, there is no schedule.

  

  Kelly Clarkson
  • Life
  • Night
  • Morning

• Buddhism calls anger 'corruption of the mind,' Manicheism 'root of the tree of death.' I know this, but what good does it do me to know?

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Death

• But when I lose my temper, I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel I've failed. I can be calm in a crisis, in the face of death or things that hurt badly. I don't get hysterical, which may be masochistic of me.

  

  Emma Thompson
  • May
  • Death
  • Hurt

• We're like Iraq. We're hiding missiles. We've got two missiles in reserve.

  

  Jayson Williams