George H. W. Bush Quotes

Ageing's alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.

George H. W. Bush

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• I think that people need an adrenalin rush. Folks need something aspirational; they need to do something that is hard. That's what ignites the imagination.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • People
  • Think
  • Imagination

• When a sports movie really works, it gets you on all levels, because the stakes are high. It's black and white. It's win or lose.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Movie
  • High
  • Black

• In the child, consciousness rises out of the depths of unconscious psychic life, at first like separate islands, which gradually unite to form a 'continent,' a continuous landmass of consciousness. Progressive mental development means, in effect, extension of consciousness.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Life
  • Child
  • Development

• Honesty is something you can't wear out.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • You
  • Something
  • Honesty

• The sensation of dying is sweet, sensuous, placid.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
  • Sweet
  • Dying
  • Sensation

• I don't cry at books or movies. Ever. So imagine my shock and awe when I read 'The Time Traveler's Wife' for the second time, and I knew the ending, and I started to cry.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Time
  • Wife
  • Ending

• A man that ain't willin' to cheat for a poke don't want it bad enough.

  

  Larry McMurtry
  • Bad
  • Want
  • Man

• I actually have a degree in music and was aware that music was a tool used in therapy. I didn't realize how far it had come since I was in college in the mid-seventies.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Music
  • College
  • Realize

• Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.

  

  Faith Baldwin
  • Silence
  • Communication

• I will never be a fan of any kind of political correctness: I think it's instant death to creativity.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Death
  • Political
  • Creativity

• I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine.

  

  Karl von Frisch
  • School
  • Medicine
  • Grammar

• I actually got a play from auditioning for something in 'Back Stage' magazine.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Play
  • Back
  • Magazine

• I started sailing because I had to stop playing tennis so much, as I had bad knees.

  

  Hannah Mills
  • Bad
  • Stop
  • Tennis

• No one would want to read a book in which I explain the science of cloning because it would be very dull and it would also make no sense.

  

  Rachel Cohn
  • Book
  • Want
  • Science

• You have to respect the system. If you have a problem with the system, change the system.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Change
  • Respect
  • Problem

• I served, she came to the net, it was a passing shot.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • She
  • Passing
  • Net

• Holding individuals accountable for corporate wrongdoing isn't ideological; it's good law enforcement.

  

  Sally Yates
  • Good
  • Law
  • Law Enforcement

• My focus is mainly on education. I believe education made all the difference for me, and it is certainly going to make all the difference for other children, too.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • Believe
  • Children
  • Education

• I wanted to close my eyes and let the silence swallow me whole.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Eyes
  • Silence
  • Swallow

• The romance of English football is fantastic, but it has lost its identity under the influence of other cultures.

  

  Johan Cruyff
  • Lost
  • Football
  • English

• I'm a huge fan of 'The Odd Couple,' yes, and any comparisons to Tony Randall and or Jack Lemmon are completely welcome. I kind of try to channel those guys, and then add my own neuroses, too.

  

  David Alan Basche
  • Couple

• I'm an actor first and foremost. My producing credentials are just to say, 'Yeah, I love this story and now let's bring the people, the ensemble together,' and I get out of the way. I have no desire to check on schedules and shooting schedules and money and stuff like that.

  

  Pierce Brosnan
  • People
  • Money
  • Together

• I want to keep going till I drop.

  

  Nelson Eddy
  • Want
  • Keep Going

• Ageing's alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.

  

  George H. W. Bush