George A. Romero Quotes

I vote in the Academy, so I get all the screeners. I'm so often disappointed by all the material and especially by what wins. I find myself never voting for the winner.

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• As a kid, I was always very thin, and I kind of didn't know that I was skinny.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Know
  • Kind
  • Always

• Power is, in its nature, encroaching; and such is the human make that men who are vested with a share of it are generally inclined to take more than it was intended they should have.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Men
  • Power
  • Nature

• Law school and summer camp are the two experiences that inform pretty much all I do.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • School
  • Pretty
  • Law

• The minute I saw the front page of the 'Daily Telegraph' - me with my arm around the latest 'X-Factor' contestant - I realised I'd gone into a new realm.

  

  Flume
  • Me
  • Daily
  • Page

• Our laboratory is a place that celebrates diversity and is totally open to all differences, not just sex but also age, ethnicity, religion and other traditions.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Age
  • Religion
  • Sex

• For most Americans, my Chinese music feels like a novelty, and it's not what it is for me.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Music
  • Me
  • Like

• Man must be in space - that is what we are destined for. There is nothing else that we can do.

  

  Majel Barrett
  • Man
  • Space
  • Nothing

• Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Art
  • Painting
  • Easy

• Getting old is better than being young. You can do what you want to do.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Want
  • Better
  • Old

• I believe that the most meaningful way to succeed is to help other people succeed.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Believe
  • Help

• Fortunately, I have money that's from my life's work. But it's money that I share and used greatly to fight poverty in my country.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Life
  • Work
  • Country

• From the outside, the CIA seems pretty exotic, but from the inside, it's a big, bureaucratic place. Think 'post office with spies.'

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Place

• If I am in Sweden, I try to get home to be with my children. I can do work after that from home.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Work
  • Children
  • Home

• Society is celebrity-based and we are determined to use celebrities' voices to make sure no one forgets there are issues over the use of animals. Celebrities can be great for our cause and can really make people sit up and think for the first time about animal abuse.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• As a writer, I'm a composite intelligence.

  

  Nadine Gordimer

• If we say that we believe in democracy, if we say that the fabric of a democratic society is one which allows for the free play of idea...then, in the name of all the gods, give that free play a chance to work within the constitutional framework.

  

  Lee Kuan Yew
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Society

• There is a perennial nobleness and even sacredness in work. Be he never so benighted and forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in Idleness alone is there perpetual Despair.

  

  Albert Pike
  • Work
  • Hope
  • High

• I am so pro-swine flu it's ridiculous. We need a plague. It's gotta happen. And don't worry, it's only gonna kill the weak. Seriously. Put on a sweater, take some vitamins, you're gonna be fine! We gotta let mother nature do her thing, man. She keeps trying to help us out and we won't let her do it.

  

  Bill Burr
  • Trying
  • Help
  • Mother

• You know, I used to think I was a foodie, and then my wife went to culinary school and basically explained to me that I was just a guy that likes to eat.

  

  Ty Burrell
  • School
  • Guy
  • Wife

• I have never felt any ethnic connection between the Greeks and me other than how hairy I am.

  

  George Michael
  • Connection
  • Felt
  • Greeks

• I plan less and less. It's a great benefit of writing lots, that you get good at holding long narratives in your head like a virtual space.

  

  Jonathan Lethem
  • Good
  • Great
  • Long

• There was once a professor of law who said to his students. When you are fighting a case, if you have facts on your side hammer them into the jury, and if you have the law on your side hammer it into the judge. But if you have neither the facts nor the law, asked one of his listeners? Then hammer the hell into the table, answered the professor.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Law
  • Fighting
  • Judge

• I'm a lot older. I'm wiser. I know what to do now, and hopefully, I don't get in (anybody's) way.

  

  Jorge Posada
  • Way
  • Older
  • Wiser

• I vote in the Academy, so I get all the screeners. I'm so often disappointed by all the material and especially by what wins. I find myself never voting for the winner.

  

  George A. Romero