George Jean Nathan Quotes

An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.

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• Wes Anderson deserves an award for sheer persistence of vision.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Vision
  • Persistence
  • Award

• I used to be someone that needed nine hours of sleep; otherwise, I didn't think I was going to sound good when I sang, and I was very disciplined and anal about my preparation. When you become a parent, there just isn't that time, you know?

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Time
  • Good
  • Sleep

• Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.

  

  Samuel Daniel
  • Words
  • Light
  • Speak

• I've made Umno more democratic, more inclusive. Of course, by doing that, I'm putting myself at risk.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Myself
  • Risk
  • Doing

• It's important to be active in the causes that are important to you... That's how we make changes in this world.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • World
  • Important
  • Changes

• I wasn't angry with God that I lost my husband. I was devastated; I was broken. I still am, in many ways. But I feel like God gives free will to everyone, and people who want to choose evil, they have that same free will.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • People
  • God
  • Free

• Personally, fame never really played any part in our family life.

  

  Oliver Hudson
  • Life
  • Family
  • Fame

• I only get angry at my brothers and at my father.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Father
  • Angry
  • Brothers

• Once an entitlement program has been created with millions of beneficiaries, it becomes almost impossible to repeal.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Impossible
  • Program
  • Been

• Bordeaux would be naive not to recognize that Robert Parker was driving the brand equity. If the next generation doesn't care about Chateau Pichon-Lalande, then you have a problem.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Problem
  • Care
  • Driving

• In June 1992, I discovered a lump in my breast. A subsequent mammogram, ultrasound and a needle biopsy proved negative. But my instinct said it still didn't feel right, so I had a lumpectomy. I then got the news that it was cancer.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Cancer
  • Said
  • News

• If you want to learn the true nature of a child you have to watch how she plays. If you want to learn the true nature of an adult you have to watch how she does her job.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • She
  • Job
  • True

• I did a little theatre work after that and the following year I got another part in a television series. Then it was almost to the end of the year before I got more work. That was coming to terms with the reality of the vocation I had chosen.

  

  Karl Urban
  • Work
  • Reality
  • End

• I worked in feature film casting right out of college and spent a lot of time working with actors, directors, and producers.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Time
  • College
  • Working

• I interact with journalists all the time, and I note how they behave.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Time
  • Behave
  • Note

• Life is hard. Not great. Kind of tragic.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Life
  • Great
  • Life Is Hard

• I believe in being an innovator.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Believe
  • Being
  • I Believe

• All great scientists have used their imaginations freely, and let it ride them to outrageous conclusions without crying 'Halt!'

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Great
  • Crying

• There is not a single desirable attribute which, lacking in a plant, may not be bred into it. Choose what improvement you wish in a flower, a fruit, or a tree, and by crossing, selection, cultivation, and persistence you can fix this desirable trait irrevocably.

  

  Luther Burbank
  • May
  • Wish
  • Single

• It is quite impossible these days to assume anything about people's educational level from the way they talk or dress or from their taste in music. Safest to treat everyone you meet as a distinguished intellectual.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • People
  • Music
  • Intellectual

• I used to think I was a little unstable, and then I met every girl I've ever dated.

  

  Mike Birbiglia
  • Littles
  • Used
  • Every

• You don't really gotta rap no more; you can just say the verse with a swag now.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • You
  • Rap
  • Now

• We don't want to end up in a class war. We want everyone to have food, clean water, and a long life expectancy.

  

  Arvind Gupta
  • Life
  • Up
  • Long

• An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.

  

  George Jean Nathan