Merv Griffin Quotes

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• I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Wonder
  • motivation
  • I Wonder

• These days i tend to use one project I do as a kind of offshoot to the next.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
  • Kind
  • Project
  • Days

• You're human; you make mistakes. You have to put all the things in the past.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Past
  • You
  • Mistakes

• In 1966, thoughts about playing games using an ordinary TV set began to percolate in my mind.

  

  Ralph Baer
  • Mind
  • Thoughts
  • Games

• Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.

  

  Fernando Flores
  • Like
  • Worst
  • Robots

• Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • People
  • Great
  • True

• I couldn't hold it together today. George Clooney asked me if I was OK, and I practically collapsed. I couldn't stop crying, I had to go off sobbing like an idiot.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Today
  • Stop
  • Crying

• Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Want
  • Success
  • Happiness

• My best advice is to not start in PowerPoint. Presentation tools force you to think through information linearly, and you really need to start by thinking of the whole instead of the individual lines.

  

  Nancy Duarte
  • Thinking
  • Best
  • Advice

• If I have an audition, I go to the audition in character. I'm in character when I walk in the room. I mean, I'm still sweet to everyone, but I'm very much the character.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Character
  • Sweet
  • Walk

• I've been writing in some way, shape, or form for as long as I can remember.

  

  Nancy A. Collins
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Remember

• These Are the music of meet resignation; these The responsive, still sustaining pomps for you To magnify, if in that drifting waste You are to be accompanied by more Than mute bare splendors of the sun and moon.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Music
  • Sun
  • Moon

• Is there a poem that never reaches words And one that chaffers the time away? Is the poem both peculiar and general? There’s a meditation there, in which there seemsTo be an evasion, a thing not apprehended or Not apprehended well. Does the poet Evade us, as in a senseless element?

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Time
  • Words
  • Meditation

• Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.

  

  Adam Smith
  • May
  • Purpose

• The TV Everywhere structure is good for all cable, satellite, and telephone distributors. It's good for all networks. It's good for studios that sell to networks, so it's basically good for everybody on the business side.

  

  Jeff Bewkes
  • Good
  • Business

• Hopefully, we will get more and more people interested in doing research in space. I think eventually it's also going to be a great commercial market.

  

  Peggy Whitson
  • People
  • Great
  • Space

• There's been a tremendous amount of work that's been done that you can't see in Columbia.

  

  Duane G. Carey
  • Work
  • Done

• Thankfully, I'm lucky enough to be able to eat ice cream. I've got to have my cookies and cream! But I work out a lot, so I burn a lot of calories.

  

  Adrian Peterson
  • Work

• In my opinion, the BBC are one of the best producers of drama in the world, and it made me incredibly happy to get the opportunity to be one of the leading men in one of their productions.

  

  Luke Pasqualino
  • World
  • Men
  • Happy

• Honestly, nothing tastes as good as feeling good.

  

  Jinder Mahal
  • Good
  • Feeling

• I'm still a news junkie. I mean, I always was, I am now.

  

  Joan Lunden

• I had done a lot of rock 'n' roll photography when I was in college. I was one of many photographers who worked for The Doors, Jefferson Airplane, and all of these rock 'n' roll bands.

  

  John Dykstra
  • Done
  • College
  • Rock

• The man dies in all those that keep silent.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Men
  • Silent
  • Dies

• If you make the customer a promise... make sure you deliver it.

  

  Merv Griffin
  • Promise
  • Customers