Jeff Fortenberry Quotes

A rapidly expanding Syrian refugee policy could create conditions for domestic tragedy.

Jeff Fortenberry

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• I doubt I'll ever have another traditional print deal.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Doubt
  • Print
  • Traditional

• Human technology has made it to Mars. We are transmitting gorgeous pictures from it. Yet we have not explored our own planet. Two-thirds of it is covered with oceans that are still mysterious places.

  

  Barbara Block
  • Technology
  • Mysterious
  • Own

• The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Science
  • Light
  • Reading

• Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • Opportunity
  • Romantic
  • Scary

• One good thing is I was instilled with really good values. My mom treats everyone the same.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Good
  • Mom
  • Same

• Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Time
  • Good
  • Writing

• If you go to a paintball subreddit, paintball companies can advertise to you.

  

  Sam Altman
  • You
  • Go
  • Companies

• If I am in London I like a quick get away to The Olde Bell in Hurley... It's nearby and no stress - great food and beautiful walks.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Great
  • Beautiful
  • Food

• Part of my problem as a young writer was that I was too much a New Yorker, always second-guessing the 'market.' I became so discouraged that I decided to write something that would please me alone - that became my sole criterion. And that was when I wrote 'Forgetting Elena,' the first novel I got published.

  

  Edmund White
  • Me
  • Alone
  • Problem

• The expansion and sophistication of transnational crime represents one of the most dangerous threats we confront in the next millennium.

  

  Rand Beers
  • Dangerous
  • Crime
  • Expansion

• I used to feel very lonely on the team. The boys would all pair up.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Up
  • Team
  • Feel

• I shoot, I score. He shoots, I score.

  

  Dan Gable
  • Score
  • Shoot
  • He

• Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Never
  • Practice
  • Rule

• I am no theologian. I am a layman. I am among those who are preached to, and who listen. It is not for me to preach. I should not willingly forego being a listener, a man who reads the Gospels and then listens to what others say that our Lord meant. But sometimes a listener speaks out, and listens to his own voice.

  

  Haniel Long
  • Voice
  • Lord
  • Theologian

• It sometimes makes people feel better about themselves, you know, to put other people down, or make fun of them, or maybe make mockery of their work and that doesn't make me feel good at all.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• The Muslim leaders swallow the advice of the Western powers and bodies like the IMF and World Bank, even when it is bad for their countries and they know this.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • World
  • Bad
  • Know

• I remember I did a boxing class. I remember sparring one time, and the guy smacked me right in the nose, and I was just like, 'What is this? No. No. None of that.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Guy

• In 2010, there was a TED event called Mission Blue held aboard the Lindblad Explorer in the Galapagos as part of the fulfillment of Sylvia Earle's TED wish. I spoke about a new way of exploring the ocean, one that focuses on attracting animals instead of scaring them away.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Wish
  • Blue
  • Ocean

• It's always that tricky thing with a remake, especially when it's something that's well loved. You're coming to something that has a built-in fascination, but with that comes people ready to feel disgruntled that it's being remade at all.

  

  David Tennant
  • People

• I think Ed Koch is the person most responsible for allowing AIDS to get out of control. It happened here first, on his watch. If he had done what any moral human being should have done in the beginning, and put out alarms, then a lot fewer people would have gotten sick.

  

  Larry Kramer
  • People
  • Done
  • Control

• When I meet a person and that chemistry is there, I cannot hide the electricity. I need to learn more about him, and once I feel safe, I'm gone, I'm in love, and I give it my all!

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Love
  • Person
  • Feel

• On the red carpet, I'm playing a character. As soon as I get off that thing, I think, 'Oof, wipe that gloss off.' I'm wiping and wiping and pulling my hair out and trying to change my outfit. I'm immediately trying to get comfortable. It's really a part I play.

  

  Jessica Biel
  • Trying
  • Character
  • Hair

• Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Life
  • Live
  • Flower

• A rapidly expanding Syrian refugee policy could create conditions for domestic tragedy.

  

  Jeff Fortenberry