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

• Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing.

  

  Marilyn Ferguson
  • Important
  • Real
  • Nature

• If you see yourself as entitled to a resource, and if you're not willing or incapable of seeing this other as a being with whom you can and should be in relation with, then you're going to take the resource.

  

  Derrick Jensen

• I have this pet thing about how global communications are moving so fast now, throwing information at you, making everything available to you, and yet I feel it's leaving us more and more isolated.

  

  Mike Rutherford Mike and the Mechanics
  • Moving
  • Leaving
  • Pet

• It's not like I'm some kind of veteran and there is this huge age gap. I identify with them more off the field. I need to set an example, which is great, and I look forward to doing just that.

  

  Barry Zito
  • Great
  • Age
  • Doing

• I was once a single mother, with very few resources, so I have a special place in my heart for women in difficult situations.

  

  Linda Lael Miller
  • Women
  • Heart
  • Mother

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

  

  Bud Grant
  • Pet