Jonah Lomu Quotes

I have crooked toes from wearing boots that didn't fit me because that's all I could afford as a kid.

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• I've always been fascinated by Disneyland and Disney World, and my favorite part of the park was always Tomorrowland.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • World
  • Disney
  • Favorite

• The most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the climax; and, during the momentary pause that follows, that last word continues, as it were, to reverberate in the reader's mind. It has, in fact, the last word.

  

  F. L. Lucas
  • Mind
  • End
  • Place

• I don't trust that many people. Just my mother and my wife and a couple of friends. When I trust people, it doesn't end well.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • People
  • Friends
  • Mother

• Don't be afraid to take time to learn. It's good to work for other people. I worked for others for 20 years. They paid me to learn.

  

  Vera Wang
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• I was in Nashville quite a bit when I shot 'Nashville,' and I was in Los Angeles when I shot in 'Supergirl'.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Los Angeles
  • Bit
  • Nashville

• There's no social realism in 'Tyrannosaur.' It's not about the social landscape or the political landscape or any of that. It's just about human beings. I never made 'Tyrannosaur' in reference to anybody - I just made it because I had to make my own films.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • Political
  • Own
  • Landscape

• I spent most of the '60s, when I was starting to try to write novels, living and working in Greece and Turkey. These are countries where the ancient past is interfused with the daily present, and I remember being struck with wonder at the constant sense of continuity and connection, the reminders that lie in wait for you at every turn.

  

  Barry Unsworth
  • Remember
  • Past
  • Present

• Tor.com has been a venue for original SF and fantasy since 2008, but we've never formalized our process for submissions. Indeed, for a long time, we were totally winging it.

  

  Patrick Nielsen Hayden
  • Time
  • Long
  • Process

• With scientific advances, Congress must now make changes to reflect new therapeutic options.

  

  Nathan Deal
  • New
  • Changes
  • Congress

• In terms of 'Solaris,' I didn't really think about the religious aspect an awful lot. There's one scene at a dinner party, and it's discussed, but it wasn't an overwhelming theme for me.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Think
  • Party
  • Religious

• I will develop the areas that vote for me, but if you don't vote for me, don't expect anything.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • You
  • Me
  • Vote

• It used to be that we disagreed over the basic facts we were fighting over, and we had different opinions about them. Now I think we accept different sources of authority. ... And people can establish credibility on their own say-so as long as nobody follows the trail and calls them out on it.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • People
  • Different
  • Long

• I do seem to try to make things harder and harder for myself. In some perverse way, obstacles interest me and I'm drawn to projects that end up being incredibly laborious.

  

  Taryn Simon
  • Way
  • Interest
  • Obstacles

• There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Real
  • True
  • Hard

• There are rumors that we want to move back to the U.K., but we're so happy in America I actually can't see us ever leaving... People ask me how long it took to adapt. Twenty minutes.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • People
  • Long
  • America

• I love London. I would move here. I like British people; everybody is so down to earth.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • People
  • Love
  • Earth

• Politicians make decisions in favor of their interest groups or their supporters back in their hometowns.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Interest
  • Decisions
  • Back

• I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Been
  • Poets
  • Influenced

• It was a long time ago: I was 13, and my dad actually sent photos to two different agencies of all of my family, and I had no idea.

  

  Elsa Hosk
  • Time
  • Different
  • Long

• We need more access to quality health care, not less.

  

  Elizabeth Esty
  • Health
  • Quality

• When I see 16 year-olds waiting for me, I just want to spank them and give them guitars and tell them to start bands. It's a bummer that girls have to respond to rock artists sexually instead of, like, 'wow, me too!'.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Rock
  • Waiting
  • Artists

• Once you digitize data, you can actually analyze patterns and relationships in geographic space - relationships between certain health patterns and air or water pollution, between plants and climate, soils, landscape.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Health
  • Space
  • Water

• I like the Hotel Costes, on rue Saint Honore, a boutique hotel near the Arc de Triomphe, the Louvre and the Tuileries. I love the dark, moody decor as well as the fantastic scented, candlelit pool in the basement.

  

  Alice Temperley
  • Dark
  • Pool

• I have crooked toes from wearing boots that didn't fit me because that's all I could afford as a kid.

  

  Jonah Lomu