Jessica Savitch Quotes

Mistakes are not always the result of someone's ineptitude.

Jessica Savitch

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• The Olympics were great, because you had to make the team, and then go to the games. Now, I don't know, these guys today don't want to do anything like that.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • Great
  • Today
  • Team

• I admire the world of the books and the characters that she's created, but I'm not an addict of Harry Potter. I don't feel possessive about it.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • World
  • She
  • Feel

• All the actors I respect, especially old-Hollywood actors, the reason I think so many of them have had long careers is that there is a sort of mystery about them. You don't know what they do on Friday nights when they go home from work. You have no clue. You have this sort of fantasy about them.

  

  Kate Mara
  • Work
  • Long
  • Home

• Whenever I go to L.A., the make-up artist or hairdresser will end up having a conversation about how fat they think they are, and I really just can't take it seriously at all.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Up
  • End
  • Conversation

• When you spend a lot of money on one player, you want him to prove himself, but the way football works, one day you can be good, the next you can be bad, and the next after that, you can be very bad. I have come to Manchester City to work very hard and to help my friends make Manchester City great.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • Good
  • Work
  • Great

• The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Peace
  • Meaning
  • Socialism

• Once when I was working for the Daily News, I was summoned back to work from vacation because Donald Trump announced he was getting a divorce.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Work
  • Trump
  • Daily

• I think people overplay the 'Saturday Night Live' schedule. I mean, yeah, it can be some late hours. But the late hours are usually only one or two nights out of the week. You might have a crazy six-day week, but you'll work three weeks, and then you get a week off work. I'd take most jobs if it was hard work and then I got a week off.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • People
  • Work
  • Live

• Feminism has been so co-opted, but the fact is, feminism benefits men as well.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Men
  • Benefits
  • Feminism

• Being a track sprinter, when it's all about a thousandth of a second, there is no escaping the numbers every single day.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Single
  • Day
  • Numbers

• I go on and off home-school and regular school, but the kids don't treat me any differently because they've all known me forever.

  

  Yara Shahidi
  • School
  • Home
  • Kids

• I was this weird misfit guy from suburban Seattle, I never really fit in, and then I became a drama geek, among all the other different kinds of geek that I was growing up, and I found I was pretty good at it.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Up
  • Good
  • Different

• Blessed are those who have no talent!

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Blessed

• There is not a person in this courtroom who has never told a lie, who has never done an immoral thing, and there is no man living who has never looked upon a woman without desire.

  

  Harper Lee
  • Done
  • Desire

• Those who hold the public trust must adhere to the highest ethical standards there are. The job requires it, and the public must demand it.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • Job
  • Trust

• Let us serve Gujarat by maintaining shanti and sanyam. Let us strengthen the arms of law.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Law

• The city will gain beauty worthy of its name and to you it will be useful by its revenues, and the eternal fame of its aggrandizement.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • City

• Exactly! It is absurd - improbable - it cannot be. So I myself have said. And yet, my friend, there it is! one cannot escape from the facts.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Friend

• But I do believe that there's going to be a time where all movies are going to be made in 3D and it's just going to be a given, and that is going to be an exciting time.

  

  Dwayne Johnson
  • Time
  • Believe

• I have problems with machines which aren't gestural.

  

  Luc Ferrari

• You just do the best you can. It doesn't necessarily mean that you have to get worse the more you do it. It can get better, I think... aspects of it, anyway. I mean, I don't write as much as I used to. But I don't do a lot of things as much as I used to. So that's the natural order of things, too. You're more or less living in the present. You're just trying to get that next song, whatever it is. And not think too much about what happened on the last record, or the record you made 20 years ago, because those are over with. Those are done.

  

  Loudon Wainwright III
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Trying

• In any civilized society, it is every citizen's responsibility to obey just laws. But at the same time, it is every citizen's responsibility to disobey unjust laws.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Society
  • Responsibility
  • Laws

• Mistakes are not always the result of someone's ineptitude.

  

  Jessica Savitch