George Murray Quotes

In my opinion, Al Moritz may be the best poet of his generation in Canada.

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• A pitcher is only as good as his legs.

  

  Early Wynn
  • Good
  • Legs
  • Pitcher

• Let us have peace.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Peace
  • U.S.
  • Let Us

• I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • Good
  • Feeling
  • Wish

• You can't try to be somebody you're not; that's not style. If someone says, 'Buy this - you'll be stylish,' you won't be stylish because you won't be you. You have to learn who you are first, and that's painful.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Style
  • Learn
  • Try

• Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Different
  • Country
  • Wisdom

• It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Evil
  • Explain
  • Abhorrent

• I don't have a definition for depression. I'm productive, and that's not a sign of depression, right? And I don't have weeks where I don't leave my bed. It seems like depressed people have those.

  

  Tao Lin
  • People
  • Depression
  • Bed

• No one knows the cost of a defective product – don't tell me you do. You know the cost of replacing it, but not the cost of a dissatisfied customer.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Me
  • Cost
  • Customer

• Like most writers, I've read a lot of Hemingway, and I admire him greatly.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Like
  • Him
  • Admire

• Growing up with my dad, whenever I wanted to try something, he would let me try it but he wouldn't let me give up on it. If soccer was too tough and I said, 'I'm going to quit,' he'd be like, 'No, you're going to try everything and keep going at it.'

  

  Carlos Pena, Jr.
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Dad

• On a ship, everything is enclosed: the people are right on top of each other and can't get up and walk away.

  

  Patrick O'Brian
  • People
  • Up
  • Walk

• Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Children
  • Education
  • College

• I just like a good story. I want the story to be good, and I want the character to be different than the last one I played. That's not always possible, but that's what I want.

  

  Garrett Dillahunt
  • Good
  • Different
  • Character

• I've made club songs, and I've made radio songs, and I've made the car songs.

  

  T-Pain
  • Car
  • Made
  • Radio

• Design is important, it's an important dimension in the car. It's not the only one.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Important
  • Car
  • Design

• It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die, and then it's too late.

  

  Edna Ferber
  • Live
  • Die
  • Learn

• Losing is no fun no matter who you lose to.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Fun
  • Lose
  • Losing

• I think it takes a lot of desire because I think a lot of people who've never written books don't know quite how hard it is to stick with, to put in the amount of time and just make the commitment to just sit there every day and do it while everybody else is out having fun.

  

  Ted Bell
  • People
  • Time
  • Fun

• God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • God
  • Heaven
  • Loved

• Lead, Kindly Light, amid the encircling gloom,Lead Thou me on!The night is dark, and I am far from home-Lead Thou me on!Keep Thou my feet: I do not ask to seeThe distant scene,-one step enough for me.

  

  John Henry Newman
  • Home
  • Night
  • Light

• I was crazy about Heath. And his blood. Erik was an amazing guy who I really, really liked. Loren was completely delicious. Jeesh, I sucked." - Zoey Redbird (Ch 20)

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Guy
  • Amazing
  • Crazy

• I can touch my eyebrows with my nose. Look at that! That's not normal. I shouldn't be able to do that.

  

  Josh Thomas
  • Touch
  • Nose
  • Eyebrows

• Wearisome as it may seem, women must realize that, in making a commitment to a man, they have merged in his unconscious with his mother and have therefore inherited the ambivalence of that relationship.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Women
  • May
  • Mother

• In my opinion, Al Moritz may be the best poet of his generation in Canada.

  

  George Murray
  • May
  • Opinion