George A. Romero Quotes

I'm amazed. I go to these conventions, and the fans that come, sometimes my line goes all day.

George A. Romero

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• Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is.

  

  Fairfax Cone
  • You
  • See
  • Advertising

• I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Thinking
  • Go
  • Straight

• Programs like food stamps, unemployment insurance, Medicaid, and job retraining help Americans get back on their feet when they are down and out and laid off through no fault of their own.

  

  Hank Johnson
  • Job
  • Help
  • Food

• I seriously do not think Nirvana is grunge.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Think
  • Seriously
  • Grunge

• It takes the pressure off of your better players to know they don't always have to be on top of their game for the team to do well.

  

  Cal Hubbard
  • Game
  • Team
  • Pressure

• One of my goals is that, at a dinner party some time in the future, someone will say, 'Oh, my nephew is starting a ready-to-wear brand', and 20 people will turn around and say, 'Is he? Can we invest?' in the same way that, now, if you were to say, 'My nephew is starting a mobile app,' everyone would say, 'Oh, smashing! Can I invest?'

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • People
  • Time
  • Future

• If you start believing all that press about you, you're in trouble. I don't even read my reviews.

  

  Oscar Hijuelos
  • You
  • Start
  • Trouble

• A big part of my life is music education because it changed my life - but arts, academics and athletics should all be equally treated in the school.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Life
  • Music
  • School

• The problem with some stars is that they lose perspective about correct adult behavior. People laugh at everything they say and do. Nobody says, 'Chill out, man. That's out of line.'

  

  Gary Goetzman
  • People
  • Man
  • Perspective

• As a liberal, I am morally obligated to be pragmatic. What good do I do poor people, elderly people, people who are being discriminated against because of their sexual orientation if I'm not realistic about accomplishing something.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Liberal
  • Sexual
  • Orientation

• In market research I did at Microsoft Corp. in the early 1990s, I estimated that the 'Wall Street Journal' took in about 75 cents per copy from subscribers, $1.25 at the newsstand and a whopping $5 per copy from ads. The ad revenue let them run a far bigger newsroom than subscribers were paying for.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Wall
  • Research
  • Street

• Artistic self-indulgence is the mark of an amateur. The temptation to make scenes, to appear late, to call in sick, not to meet deadlines, not to be organized, is at heart a sign of your own insecurity and at worst the sign of an amateur.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Heart
  • Sick
  • Temptation

• If the Supreme Court rules that rent control is an unconstitutional taking of property, it would put all sorts of zoning rules in danger.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Control
  • Rules
  • Danger

• There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Money
  • Community
  • Rich

• When I hear traditional family values raised, I hear that effort once again to re-establish the man as head and master of his family. Who had the, not only the right, but the obligation to discipline his wife and children to keep them in line?

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Children
  • Family
  • Man

• Everybody tries to score a great goal, and I am lucky I have netted a few.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Goal
  • Score

• Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • You
  • Value
  • Price

• Capra is an old-time movie craftsman, the master of every trick in the bag, and in many ways he is more at home with the medium than any other Hollywood director. But all of his details give the impression of contrived effect.

  

  Manny Farber
  • Time
  • Home
  • Movie

• What fascinated me, it was not the glory, but the contact with the public.

  

  Jacky Ickx
  • Me
  • Public
  • Glory

• I'm just a geeky, goofy person.

  

  Austin Peck

• So often, the discarded love of youth is desperately yearned for in maturity.

  

  Wayne Gerard Trotman
  • Youth
  • Maturity
  • Yearning

• A life like an intricately woven basket, frayed, worn, broken, unraveled, reworked, reknit from many of its original pieces... Life can survive in the constant shadow of illness, and even rise to moments of rampant joy, but the shadow remains, and one has to make space for it.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Joy
  • Moments
  • Broken

• Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.

  

  Brooks Atkinson
  • God
  • Past

• I'm amazed. I go to these conventions, and the fans that come, sometimes my line goes all day.

  

  George A. Romero