Joseph Monninger Quotes

Fishing the small streams of New Hampshire is a pastime that combines hiking, map reading, and bushwhacking - plenty of it.

Joseph Monninger

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• There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Pain
  • Gratitude
  • Revenge

• I think film writing, you're thinking in pictures, and stage writing, you're thinking in dialogue. In film writing, it's also, you only get so many words, so everything has to earn its place in a really economical way. I think for stage writing, you have more leeway.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Words

• I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Think
  • Imagination
  • Paint

• I like someone who's not afraid to be a kid!

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Like
  • Afraid
  • Someone

• We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Up
  • Week
  • Out

• If you sit in a bath of pineapple chunks, it can kill you. That's well documented.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • You
  • Well
  • Bath

• Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.

  

  Karl Popper
  • Science
  • Criticism
  • Myths

• People think we are such great talkers, but there is so much silence in Ireland about certain issues.

  

  Fionnula Flanagan
  • People
  • Great
  • Silence

• In a novel, I think you have a contract with the reader to make the character representative - of a moment in history, a social class... for instance, I wanted to make the boy in 'A Boy's Own Story' more like other gay men of my generation in their youth and not like me.

  

  Edmund White
  • Men
  • Character
  • History

• Life sometimes doesn't work out exactly as we plan or hope for.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Life
  • Work
  • Hope

• I am not a politician by nature, but I will say I think there need to be more women in FIFA, and I would be open to having those conversations when the time is right.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Time
  • Women
  • Nature

• If a film project were available and the timing was right, I might be interested.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Film
  • Right
  • Timing

• Part of being out there, campaigning, talking to people, is being able to read body language.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • People
  • Language
  • Body

• If we don't like the Human Rights Council, then let's not fund it. We should pick and choose cafeteria style which groups we want to help.

  

  Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
  • Help
  • Style
  • Choose

• As far as innovation goes, I can tell you that Korean students are reluctant to step out of line. If I ask questions, nobody raises their hands - not because they don't know the answers, but because they don't want to step out of line.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Hands
  • Innovation
  • Step

• Your questions refer to words; so I have to talk about words. You say: The point isn't the word, but its meaning, and you think of the meaning as a thing of the same kind as the word, though also different from the word. Here the word, there the meaning.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Different
  • Words

• As a child, all I knew was that people kept asking me to sing, and because I liked to please, I would sing. It wasn't until my dad told me that my singing made him happy that I began to think my voice might be good.

  

  Johnny Mathis
  • People
  • Good
  • Happy

• Music in general is looking for something new overall.

  

  Les Claypool
  • Music

• I'm from the island of St. Lucia in the Caribbean in the Lesser Antilles, the lower part of the archipelago, which is a bilingual island - French, Creole, and English - but my education is in English.

  

  Derek Walcott
  • Education
  • English

• More government isn't going to help you get ahead. It's going to hold you back. More government isn't going to create more opportunities. It's going to limit them. And more government isn't going to inspire new ideas, new businesses and new private sector jobs. It's going to create uncertainty.

  

  Marco Rubio
  • Help

• I just start with a pencil and paper. I don't want something too trendy, too fashion-forward. I don't want to make something I consider a regular person couldn't wear with blue jeans. But I don't want to make something that other people make, either - like a skinny black suit in a shiny material that you can buy anywhere.

  

  John Malkovich
  • People
  • Black
  • Fashion

• Before 'SNL,' I would do stand-up, opening for Jeff Tweedy. It was worse than bombing in that people were dead silent.

  

  Fred Armisen
  • People
  • Up

• Fishing the small streams of New Hampshire is a pastime that combines hiking, map reading, and bushwhacking - plenty of it.

  

  Joseph Monninger
  • Reading
  • Fishing
  • Hiking