Vince Flynn Quotes

I have such bad memories, sitting in the back of a classroom, being told, you know, everybody is going to read a paragraph, and skipping ahead to my paragraph and being mortified and trying to read it enough times so that I wouldn't stutter and stammer, getting called on, even in high school.

Vince Flynn

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• You know, I think I still have a sense that no matter what you do, no matter what you achieve, no matter how much success you have, no matter how much money you have, relationships are important.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Important
  • Money
  • Success

• It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Want
  • Problem
  • Complexity

• Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Sexuality
  • Seduction

• I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • People
  • Character
  • Comedy

• It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

  

  Ovid
  • Purpose
  • Honest
  • Annoying

• Anybody, and any company, can have a big run of success once, but if you're going to repeat that over time, you need to be aware that you need to keep learning.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Time
  • Success
  • Learning

• I love wrestling, but to wrestle just one style for the rest of my life seems like it would really hold me down creatively.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Life
  • Style
  • Like

• New research shows that you will be dead longer than you will be alive.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • New
  • Dead
  • Research

• Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Strange
  • Places
  • Far

• Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.

  

  Lady Randolph Churchill
  • Friends
  • Light
  • Best

• I believe honor thy mother and father is not just a good commandment to live by, it is good public policy to govern by. That is why I feel so strongly about Medicare.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Live

• As the great grandchildren of the industrial revolution, we have learned, at last, that the heedless pursuit of more is unsustainable and, ultimately, unfulfilling. Our planet, our security, our sense of equanimity and our very souls demand something better, something different.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Great
  • Different
  • Revolution

• I really think more fledgling novelists - and many current and even established novelists - should get out into the real world and cover local politics, sports, culture, and crime and write it up on deadline.

  

  C. J. Box
  • Up
  • World
  • Real

• Being in Harlem on the night of Barack Obama's election was extraordinary. It was the best street party I have ever gone to, and it felt like the period of American history which began with slavery had ended that evening.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • American
  • History
  • Night

• There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable. When you're not doing what you're used to, you could completely fall on your face. You could completely blow it.

  

  Beck
  • Fall
  • Quality
  • Doing

• The accepted definition of a serial killer is a person who kills at least three times with a cooling off period in between his murders.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Person
  • Period
  • Three

• What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.

  

  Abraham Cahan
  • World
  • Wind
  • Smoke

• I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Play
  • Myself
  • Piano

• It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom?

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Freedom
  • Question
  • Service

• It's like you wanting to marry Miss World and she doesn't want you, what can I do about it? I can try to help you, but if she does not want to marry you what can I do?

  

  Arsene Wenger
  • World
  • Trying
  • Helping

• I was always very grateful to 'em and am grateful to 'em now. I went back a couple of years ago and did their 20th anniversary show. But the longer I stayed on Hee Haw, the worse things got for me musically.

  

  Buck Owens
  • Couple
  • Anniversary

• Today at school I will learn to read at once; then tomorrow I will begin to write, and the day after tomorrow to cipher. Then with my acquirements I will earn a great deal of money, and with the first money I have in my pocket I will immediately buy for my papa a beautiful new cloth coat. But what am I saying? Cloth, indeed! It shall be all made of gold and silver, and it shall have diamond buttons. That poor man really deserves it; for to buy me books and to have me taught he has remained in his shirt sleeves... And in this cold! It is only fathers who are capable of such sacrifices!...

  

  Carlo Collodi
  • School
  • Learn
  • Read

• I have such bad memories, sitting in the back of a classroom, being told, you know, everybody is going to read a paragraph, and skipping ahead to my paragraph and being mortified and trying to read it enough times so that I wouldn't stutter and stammer, getting called on, even in high school.

  

  Vince Flynn
  • Trying
  • School
  • Bad