Bud Grant Quotes

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• Habit is a great deadener.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Great
  • Habit

• Of course, in the United States, which at the time was a very young country, there were also class distinctions. They weren't as pronounced, but they quickly evolved as well.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Time
  • Country
  • Young

• I remember wearing overcoats, hiding in the bushes outside of Abbey Road Studios, waiting for the traffic to clear. As it did, we would drop our overcoats and run out on to the cross walk and strike our poses.

  

  Jack Irons Pearl Jam
  • Remember
  • Road
  • Waiting

• The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes - or it prospers; and anon, Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face, Lighting a little hour or two - is gone.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Men
  • Hope
  • Snow

• I don't feel a day older when it comes to my approach to music or what gets me off than when I was a teenager. I've always been into different kinds of stuff and when I play I like to play loud. I like my arm hairs to move and I like my body to vibrate 'cause I like the feel of it; I'm still a teenager at heart.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Music
  • Different
  • Heart

• To imagine is the characteristic act, not of the poet's mind, or the painter's, or the scientist's, but of the mind of man.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Mind

• It's hard for me not to have a great deal of compassion for the last Romanov family because, really, I don't know if a politically savvy ruler would have been able to make the situation turn out much differently.

  

  Kathryn Harrison
  • Great
  • Family
  • Compassion

• Whenever I go to England, I'm on pilgrimage. I walk the countryside around Eastbourne because that's where Sherlock Holmes retired.

  

  Laurie R. King

• I couldn't identify with anyone. At school, I was considered very strange. I didn't understand the relationships between people.

  

  Marion Cotillard
  • People
  • School

• No single man can be taken as a model for a perfect figure, for no man lives on earth who is endowed with the whole of beauty.

  

  Albrecht Durer
  • Earth
  • Perfect
  • Single

• We not only interpret the character of events... we may also interpret our interpretations.

  

  Kenneth Burke
  • May
  • Character

• You can tell the state of civilization by the way people dress. If the people who fought two World Wars came back to 2010 and saw all of us running around in tracksuits, what would they think? It is just about being sloppy.

  

  Daphne Guinness
  • People
  • World
  • Running

• It's cool to go places where working people are happy.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • People
  • Happy
  • Cool

• The civil rights movement was about access to public space. We had to fight for public space.

  

  Jacqueline Woodson
  • Space

• When you have an attorney giving you advice, it would be nice to know what their financial relationship is to the advice.

  

  Lowell Bergman
  • Giving
  • Relationship
  • Nice

• When you describe a character's dream, it has to be sharper than reality in some way and more meaningful. It has to somehow speak to plot, character, and all the rest.

  

  Jeff Vandermeer
  • Character
  • Dream
  • Reality

• I feel that I don't have to wait around for good scripts anymore, that I can get things moving more quickly. I can ring up directors I like and say I'm keen to work with them, which is pretty great.

  

  Chiwetel Ejiofor
  • Up
  • Good
  • Work

• Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians.

  

  Chester Bowles
  • Important

• Hip-hop is a contact sport.

  

  Daystar Peterson

• I really like doing puppetry; I'm not sure if it will find its way into 'Big Bang,' but it always does seem to find its way into a lot of things.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Always
  • Doing
  • Find

• Well, this is the federal government, and it has procedures that we go through.

  

  James Young Styx
  • Procedures
  • Federal Government

• I have a pet lizard named Puff, five goldfish - named Pinky, Brain, Jowels, Pearl and Sandy, an oscar fish named Chef, two pacus, an albino African frog named Whitey, a bonsai tree, four Venus flytraps, a fruit fly farm and sea monkeys.

  

  Chris Pratt
  • Brain
  • Sea
  • Tree

• I didn't get a lot of attention from my dad when I was young. That's a big part of it for girls. Because your dad is the first love of your life. If he doesn't put you on his lap and give you a pet, you do end up not really liking yourself that much.

  

  Dolores O'Riordan The Cranberries
  • Life
  • Up
  • Dad

• Legislators are interested in their pet projects, getting re-elected, and popularity contests.

  

  Bud Grant
  • Pet