Jim Steinman Quotes

If you don't go over the top you can't see what's on the other side.

Jim Steinman

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• Software-industry battles are fought by highly paid and out-of-shape nerds furiously pounding computer keyboards while they guzzle diet Coke. The stakes aren't very dramatic. Life? Liberty? The pursuit of happiness? Nope, it's about stock options.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Life
  • Happiness
  • Stock

• Long Kiss Goodnight has a huge cult following. They could make another version of that movie right now and make a lot of money.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Long
  • Money
  • Movie

• I'm happiest when I'm moving.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Moving
  • Happiest

• Modelling wasn't a passion of mine, so that made it get old kind of quickly. I was getting very frustrated.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Kind
  • Passion
  • Old

• And still I'm not completely happy with my skating. I always feel I can do more and climb higher.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • Happy
  • Always
  • Climb

• Showbiz can be cruel.

  

  Nadia Bjorlin
  • Cruel
  • Showbiz

• I so believe that older women have tremendous value to their families, their community, their country, the world.

  

  Sally Field
  • World
  • Believe
  • Women

• Doing something for Victoria's Secret would be great - I love Doutzen Kroes. She's so special to look at but seems like a very normal person. She's true to herself - that's important to me.

  

  Ymre Stiekema
  • Important
  • True
  • Like

• The thing that scares me is a place like the Amazon – which is the size of the continental U.S. and mostly unexplored and has a different ecosystem, there are so many things in there that can kill you.

  

  Oren Peli
  • Kill
  • Scares
  • Amazon

• The Chinese economy's still not that much of a consumer economy.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Chinese
  • Economy
  • Still

• Cary Grant was wonderful to work with on stage. He would move downstage, so that as he looked at me the audience had to look at me, too. He knew a lot about the theater and how to move around. He was very secure.

  

  Fay Wray
  • Work
  • Audience
  • Theater

• I've been practicing. I bowled a 129, It was like special olympics or something.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Olympics
  • Practicing
  • Bowl

• Here's to the day when the complete works of Leon Trotsky are published and widely distributed in the Soviet Union. On that day the USSR will have achieved democracy!

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • Democracy

• Naturally I am not pointing a finger at me,But I must admit that I find Mr. Ickes or any otherspeaker far more convincing when I agree withhim than when I disagree.

  

  Ogden Nash

• Humans tend to start the process of change by acknowledging themselves-thus blacks asserted black pride and black is beautiful; women declared I am woman, I am strong ; men are saying I am man, I am okay. After a quarter of a century of male bashing, that’s not a bad start.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Bad

• Clean, quick, and easy as lying. We know how it ends practically before it starts. That’s why stories appeal to us. They give us the clarity and simplicity our real lives lack.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Real
  • Why
  • Simplicity

• The Pobble who has no toesHad once as many as we;When they said, 'Some day you may lose them all;'-He replied, - 'Fish fiddle de-dee!'

  

  Edward Lear
  • May

• When I speak, you must not listen to the words, my dear. Listen to the Silence.

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • Words
  • Silence

• If I were a writer and not a singer in 10 years, I don't know how I'd feel about writing really personal songs and getting someone else to sing them.

  

  Adele
  • Writing
  • Songs
  • Writer

• Viola blows out a thoughtful air. "My dad used to say, 'There's only forward, Vi, only outward and up.'" "There's only forward," I repeat. "Outward and up," she says.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Up
  • She
  • Dad

• In the traditional Ikebana things always have to be asymmetrical, because in this they look more natural and balanced.

  

  Camille Henrot
  • Look
  • Natural
  • Balanced

• I feel like LeBron James is an amazing basketball player, but he's also a community person.

  

  Chance The Rapper
  • Community
  • Amazing
  • Player

• People say don't stare. Through the photos, not only do I stare, but I allow viewers to stare at the subject, to see things that they cannot see with a casual glance.

  

  Dawoud Bey
  • People
  • Staring
  • Viewers

• If you don't go over the top you can't see what's on the other side.

  

  Jim Steinman