Joseph Wambaugh Quotes

Probably 95 percent of the things that are written never get on the screen.

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• Twenty games is the magic figure for pitchers - .300 is the magic figures for batters. It pays off in salary and reputation. And those are the two things that keep a ballplayer in business.

  

  Warren Spahn
  • Business
  • Magic
  • Reputation

• My 93-year-old grandma is a beautiful example of healthy living. She laughs a lot and always says, 'Just be yourself!' She also eats dessert every single day.

  

  Rachel Boston
  • She
  • Beautiful
  • Single

• The fundamental problem is not that Trump has access to the nuclear launch codes, but that they exist at all.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Problem
  • Trump
  • Exist

• By the time I approached my forties, I had the self-assurance to approach all the genres I love so deeply: R & B, rock, jazz, and pop.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Time
  • Love
  • Rock

• I can't really recall the first time I was noticed by a producer but the first time I was on television was doing Daytime for Another World, which I started in December '75 and went until December '76.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Time
  • World
  • Doing

• I said back in 2010 when I was rubbish at the European championships, 'If I never win an omnium until 2012, I don't care.' I then won Olympic gold.

  

  Laura Trott
  • Care
  • Win
  • Gold

• If I'm trying to please every craze fan, then I can't. Of course, we all want to please the fans.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Trying
  • Want
  • Fans

• Man is an imagining being.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Man
  • Being
  • Imagining

• The popularity of leaders like Mandela was an invitation to counter-attack by the government. Mandela was banned from speaking, from attending gatherings, from leaving Johannesburg, from belonging to any organization.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Government
  • Organization
  • Leaving

• I'm Pisces with Leo rising. The Pisces part is the dreamer. The Leo says, 'Let's execute.'

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Dreamer
  • Rising
  • Pisces

• The America's Cup is like driving your Lamborghini to the Grand Prix track to watch the charter buses race.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • America
  • Driving

• It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Justice
  • Struggle
  • Civil Rights

• A story has to have muscle as well as meaning, and the meaning has to be in the muscle.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Story
  • Meaning
  • Muscle

• The present is what slips by us while we're pondering the past and worrying about the future.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Future
  • Past
  • Present

• A synopsis is a cold thing. You do it with the front of your mind. If you're going to stay with it, you never get quite the same magic as when you're going all out.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Mind
  • Magic
  • Cold

• I think it takes a larger nature to receive nobly than to give nobly.

  

  Fannie Ellsworth Newberry
  • Thinking
  • Nature
  • Giving

• I learned not to trust people; I learned not to believe what they say but to watch what they do; I learned to suspect that anyone and everyone is capable of 'living a lie'. I came to believe that other people - even when you think you know them well - are ultimately unknowable.

  

  Lynn Barber
  • People
  • Believe
  • Trust

• She tried to explain the real state of the case to her sister. "I do not attempt to deny," said she, "that I think very highly of him--that I greatly esteem, that I like him." Marianne here burst with forth with indignation: "Esteem him! Like him! Cold-hearted Elinor. Oh! worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise. Use those words again, and I will leave the room this moment." Elinor could not help laughing. "Excuse me," said she, "and be assured that I meant no offence to you, by speaking, in so quiet a way, of my own feelings.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Way
  • Feelings
  • Own

• There's so much talk about the Drug Generation and songs about drugs. That's stupid. They aren't songs about drugs; they're about life.

  

  Cass Elliot The Mamas & The Papas
  • Song
  • Stupid
  • Drug

• While I was there, Voyager flew by Saturn. I got involved with a person who was a member of the imaging team and started working on data from Saturn. With all that data coming in, the imaging team didn't have enough hands or scientists to work on all of it.

  

  Carolyn Porco
  • Team
  • Enough
  • Hands

• Of his new book, Don says: “It might be the greatest book ever written. I don’t think anybody is going to read a book again after they read my new one. I think God is proud of me. I am going to make a killing off this thing and I’m going to use the money to go to space.

  

  Donald Miller
  • God
  • Money
  • Book

• It was a show that you played at home and you're saying to the contestant do this and do that. When you at home are involved in yelling at the screen, then you know you've got an audience.

  

  Monty Hall
  • Audience
  • Saying
  • Played

• Probably 95 percent of the things that are written never get on the screen.

  

  Joseph Wambaugh
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