Burgess Meredith Quotes

I'll just take amusement at being a paradox.

Burgess Meredith

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• When there was a fight in school, because I was the tall one, the teachers would say, 'I know you were there. I could see you.'

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • School
  • Know
  • Fight

• A lot of cable television is shot on a single camera. Our eyes are more trained to that. It takes the camera off the crane, away from observing the action, to becoming a character in the story along with everyone else. People are getting used to that.

  

  A. J. Bowen
  • People
  • Character
  • Action

• To add an AC outlet, for example, you just drill a circular hole in the wall, tap into the wiring, add the outlet and you're set. If you don't want it, pull it out and plaster over it with more earth to seal the hole.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Want
  • Earth
  • Wall

• Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Art
  • Value
  • Friendship

• A living man can be enslaved and reduced to the historic condition of an object. But if he dies in refusing to be enslaved, he reaffirms the existence of another kind of human nature which refuses to be classified as an object.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Nature

• Is it my end-all and be-all to become a standup comic? No.

  

  Jason Alexander

• If a gym is not available, wherever I am, I do my free hand exercises.

  

  Akkineni Nagarjuna
  • Free
  • Hand
  • Gym

• The climate has always changed - after all, we've had numerous ice ages without human influence - but human activity has undoubtedly exacerbated Earth's natural trends beyond its capacity to adjust.

  

  Christine Todd Whitman
  • Earth

• I am unobservant.

  

  Margot Robbie

• As corny as it sounds, I'm often pinching myself going, 'What great opportunities and great parts and great people that I've gotten to work with.'

  

  Chris Messina
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• I've definitely seen that Texas is certainly a right-wing area politically. I think if you talk to the average Texan, some people may still think that alternative energy is some sort of hippie mumbo-jumbo, you know. I think there's still a strong movement to continue to drill and continue to find these other sources of oil within the country.

  

  Jesse Metcalfe
  • People
  • Country
  • May

• I was a kid who was born and raised on Johnny Cash. My father played 'At Folsom Prison' constantly. Cash was the only thing I remember coming from our big, warm stereo console. Even then, I knew Cash was uncool. I knew he was an unhip Republican.

  

  David Means
  • Remember
  • Father

• I am waiting for the decision, which is not depending of me, to know if the trial will be in Iraq, in the states, or in international court. Of course, the decision is not mine.

  

  Jacques Verges
  • Decision
  • Waiting

• I'm un-smiteable. That's something I realized very young.

  

  Anders Holm

• A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.

  

  Peter Drucker
  • Knowledge

• I've never been in the ring with The Undertaker.

  

  Dolph Ziggler

• You are the pits of the world! Vultures! Trash!

  

  John McEnroe
  • World

• I feel like we tend to be our own worst critics.

  

  An Na
  • Feels
  • Worst
  • Critics

• I've had great pleasure meeting the likes of Newt Gingrich and having a chat with the fellow on a staircase. I found him completely dishonest and totally likeable, because he doesn't care! He knows what a politician is, and he's a perfect embodiment of one.

  

  John Joseph Lydon
  • Great
  • Perfect

• Sport is an entertainment, in one sense. But it's also a business.

  

  Alastair Cook
  • Business
  • Entertainment
  • Sport

• If you pursue the truth far enough you always wind up in the land of paradox. You reach a point where the apparent truth divides into two opposing truths and then you have to try to reach beyond them to grasp the ultimate truth, their synthesis.

  

  Susan Howatch
  • Truth
  • Paradox
  • Pursue

• The way I see it, love is an amusement park, and food its souvenir.

  

  Stephanie Klein
  • Parks
  • Amusement
  • Souvenirs

• If a movie makes it really big, they do the obvious thing, right? They make an amusement park ride out of it. ... The connection is obvious. You get off, "Man, that was just like the movie! Only the movie had a storyline and characters, and that was a little more like a roller coaster."

  

  Brian Regan
  • Men
  • Character
  • Funny

• I'll just take amusement at being a paradox.

  

  Burgess Meredith
  • Paradox
  • Amusement