Esther Williams Quotes

I gave my eardrums to MGM. And it's true: I really did.

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• If a Chinese student does not know Chinese learning, it's like a person without a surname, a horse without a bridle, a boat without a helm. The more Western learning he possesses, the more hateful of China he will become. Even if he becomes a capable man of vast learning, how can he be of any use to the state?

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Man
  • Learning
  • Horse

• What I hope to do in the States is to break up this stereotyping of Muslims and Arabs. I mean, we are basically the only sub-culture that is not represented in Hollywood. And it's funny because everybody is talking about the Muslim world and the Arab world, and we are not represented.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • Up
  • World
  • Hope

• I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Times
  • Many
  • Performed

• More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.

  

  Walt Alston
  • Me
  • Wish
  • Manager

• No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

  

  Orville Wright
  • Fly
  • New York
  • Paris

• This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful.

  

  Walter Lang
  • May
  • Problem
  • Pride

• I'm not the hands-on guy. I like writing the check, and I turn it over to the guys that make it happen, much like the way I ran my business.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Writing
  • Business
  • Guy

• I know it's a cliche, but the whole family is just whacked. I mean, we're all out of our minds. They're the funniest, most eccentric bizarre people I've ever met, my siblings.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • People
  • Family
  • Know

• We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would come after us.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Women
  • Violence
  • Come

• In politics, sometimes you have to lie, or you make a promise that you cannot keep.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Sometimes
  • Politics
  • Promise

• A lot of new writers assume you have to know the where the story is going and that it flows out as molten gold. But really, sometimes you think you are going to one place, but then you decide that is dumb idea. Then you go somewhere else and it is a worse idea. But then you switch again and you might have a beautiful accident.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Beautiful
  • Gold
  • New

• A lot of times I make people better by getting stupid, distracting, bureaucratic stuff off their desk. That's an incredibly easy way to make a senior person more productive.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • People
  • Stupid
  • Senior

• It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • You
  • Reputation
  • Obvious

• I discovered that men were just like everyone else, really. They liked you if you were good-tempered and easy to talk to. And being a big girl meant other females trusted you more and confided in you.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Good
  • Men
  • Girl

• Without the Fender bass, there'd be no rock n' roll or no Motown. The electric guitar had been waiting 'round since 1939 for a nice partner to come along. It became an electric rhythm section, and that changed everything.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Nice
  • Rock
  • Waiting

• Leadership means a wise application of military power, and rallying the world behind causes that are right. It means seeing our foreign assistance as part of our national security, not something separate, not charity.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Power
  • Military

• Every society seeks to establish a set of meanings through which people can relate themselves to the world.

  

  Daniel Bell
  • People
  • World
  • Society

• It naturally follows that the creature you love next best is the person - the God-lover or God-hater (almost never, apparently, anything in between), the saint or profligate, moralist or complete immoralist - who can write a poem that is a poem.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • God

• I hope of lightning our supply Will never be exhausted;You know it's lanterns in the skyFor angels who are losted.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Hope

• My Writers Guild of America card is one of my proudest possessions. I was given it after being invited to write the script for a film of my last novel, 'Me Before You,' which is being made by MGM. Whenever I look at it, I think, 'I'm a Hollywood writer!'

  

  Jojo Moyes
  • America

• It is true what Rimbaud said; If you think a book is strong enough, try it at the ocean, in the wind, at the waves. If the book can resist the ocean, then it exists. Otherwise, throw it away.

  

  Klaus Kinski
  • Book
  • True
  • Strong

• Sometimes true girl power means accepting that we are actually vulnerable and even powerless - then figuring out how to adapt and have our needs met in other ways.

  

  Rachel Simmons
  • Power
  • True
  • Girl

• Love has been taken away from the poets, and has been brought within the domain of true science. It may prove to be one of the great cosmic elementary forces. When the atom of hydrogen draws the atom of chlorine towards it to form the perfected molecule of hydrochloric acid, the force which it exerts may be intrinsically similar to that which draws me to you. Attraction and repulsion appear to be the primary forces. This is attraction.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Love
  • True
  • Science

• I gave my eardrums to MGM. And it's true: I really did.

  

  Esther Williams
  • True
  • MGM