Eugene Jarvis (Eugene Peyton Jarvis) Quotes

I got interested in computers and how they could be enslaved to the megalomaniac impulses of a teenager.

Eugene Jarvis

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• Computer
• Impulse
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• I don't try to sugarcoat things, but I also think my books make positive statements about the people and values in small-town America.

  

  Tawni O'Dell
  • People
  • America
  • Small

• I was never the mascot of the Georgia football team.

  

  Wayne Knight
  • Team
  • Football
  • Never

• It's funny. Some people remember that a lot more than I do. I remember certain parts of it, and if everybody who mentioned that to me had been to the game who said they were at the game, there'd be 800,000 people at that game, I think.

  

  Carlton Fisk
  • People
  • Remember
  • Think

• Music has a tremendous effect on me. When it's playing, I can't think or do anything other than listen. But I can write to it.

  

  Nancy Farmer
  • Music
  • Think
  • Me

• In truth, I became a conductor because deep down I wanted to conduct Brahms's four symphonies and Richard Strauss's tone poems.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Truth
  • Deep
  • Down

• I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!

  

  Hannah Cowley
  • Life
  • Time
  • Late

• I often look at women who wear great jeans and high heels and nice little T-shirts wandering around the city, and I think, 'I should make more of an effort. I should look like that.' But then I think, 'They can't be happy in those heels.'

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Great
  • Women
  • Happy

• I mean, I've never really had much security, to be honest.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Mean
  • Never
  • Security

• I love working! I'm a huge fan of TV and will be happy as long as I'm getting to be creative.

  

  Patrick Labyorteaux
  • Happy
  • Creative
  • Working

• Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Idleness
  • Heaviest

• During the course of filming 'Top Chef,' I gain 15 lbs., so I'm used to needing two dress sizes.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Dress
  • Top
  • Chef

• Diplo kept asking me who styled my 'What They Say' video. I was like, 'No, that's just my clothes!'

  

  Kali Uchis

• Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with his kind, he works wonders.

  

  Daniel Webster

• If Reagan had intelligence information that showed that the upheaval in Egypt is actually Democratic in spirit, then he would have, I believe, turned his back on Mubarak, even though there's a long friendship between the United States and Egypt.

  

  Douglas Brinkley
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Friendship

• Academic freedom and free speech mean the right to consider ideas with which you might disagree.

  

  Bob Beckel
  • Free
  • Freedom

• If I'm going to compare myself to a candidate, it's Rick Scott. It's not Donald Trump.

  

  Carlos Beruff
  • Trump

• I want it all... fast. I want to be married, I want to live together... and then somewhere around a year or two years, I get freaked out. I freak out emotionally and then I actually feel like 'Oh my God, who's this stranger in my house?'

  

  Fred Armisen
  • God
  • Live
  • Together

• My fear in converting it to 3-D is that people will say, 'Oh, it's the 3-D 'Clash of the Titans.' No, it's 'Clash of the Titans,' the movie, and then, on top of that, you have the 3-D conversion. The 2-D movie works as well as the 3-D movie. I want to make sure that people like the 2-D version.

  

  Louis Leterrier
  • People
  • Movie
  • Fear

• I love bingeing. 'The Wire' was my first binge, and the thing about bingeing is, when you are doing four or five hours a day for a number of days, it becomes a literary experience, closer to reading.

  

  James L. Brooks
  • Experience
  • Reading

• In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms.

  

  George Balanchine
  • Dance
  • Ballet

• The man who avoids debt doesn't have to worry about avoiding his creditors.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Worry
  • Debt
  • Creditors

• I couldn't stop throwing theories at Jimmi Simpson, and eventually I was like, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I will stop talking about the show Westworlds. I promise."

  

  Evan Rachel Wood
  • Promise
  • Sorry
  • Talking

• I've had an extraordinary life as a dancer. You tour the world, you see all the great capitals of the world, the beautiful old opera houses all over Europe - you go everywhere. As a teenager, I would always say, 'I can't believe this is happening to little me,' because it was always a dream to dance.

  

  Patricia McBride
  • Life
  • World
  • Great

• I got interested in computers and how they could be enslaved to the megalomaniac impulses of a teenager.

  

  Eugene Jarvis
  • Teenager
  • Computer
  • Impulse