Eugene Simon Quotes

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• When I talk to people in need, they tell me they want to hope; they are eager for opportunity; they are ready for better days. And I can tell you that every time their hopes are disappointed, all nations lose.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • People
  • Time
  • Hope

• I'm under five feet; I'm very small, 4'11 1/2.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Small
  • Very
  • Feet

• The path that went by the little house had become a road. Almost every day Laura and Mary stopped their playing and stared in surprise at a wagon slowly creaking by on that road.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • House
  • Day
  • Road

• To go back, the mistake that Universal Studios made with 'Dawn of the Dead' was that they didn't have enough money or cared enough to make a soundtrack.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Money
  • Mistake
  • Dawn

• The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Country
  • Stop
  • Drug

• For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.

  

  Upamanyu Chatterjee
  • Comedy
  • Richer
  • Larger

• I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many people writing about TV on the Internet, that everything's sort of under a magnifying glass.

  

  Oscar Nunez
  • People
  • Writing
  • Internet

• Usually when a song comes to me, I don't ask a lot of questions; I hear something, and I just let it out in song. It's like making a salad. Everything I hear, and everything I am, I mix together in a different way in each song.

  

  Yael Naim
  • Song
  • Way
  • Questions

• The more you know, the less you are impressed by Foucault.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Know
  • Impressed
  • Michel Foucault

• Bart's voice Yo, what’s happenin' man, this is Bart Simpson laughs, normal voice ... Bart's voice Just kidding, don’t hang up, this is Nancy Cartwright.

  

  Nancy Cartwright
  • Up

• When I was playing bluegrass, I was living down in West Hollywood - starving.

  

  Chris Hillman The Byrds

• In the account book of the Great War the page recording the Russian losses has been ripped out. The figures are unknown. Five millions, or eight? We ourselves know not.

  

  Paul von Hindenburg
  • Great
  • Book
  • War

• People ask me, 'Is there pressure to win a Tony for your next one?' I've got three on my mantelpiece; I'm good. If that's the end of the story, I'm fine.

  

  David Bryan Bon Jovi
  • People
  • Good

• There's never a dearth of reasons to shoot at the President.

  

  Don DeLillo

• The first video I ever watched was on a Beta system because everyone thought Beta was the way but then it ended up being video so we backed the wrong horse.

  

  Joel Edgerton
  • Up
  • Horse

• There's been a lot of lies written about me.

  

  Davinia Taylor
  • Lies

• Greeks are notorious for their potions. I wouldn't say I've used Windex, but there are so many tricks that have been handed down to me.

  

  Elena Kampouris

• I came back to New York after college like any number of struggling performers, and you just find that niche where you can have some sort of impact. And for me that turned out to be comedy.

  

  Billy Eichner
  • College
  • Comedy

• This is a full country. I think 16 million Dutchmen are about enough.

  

  Pim Fortuyn
  • Country

• Arbitrary power is the natural object of temptation to a prince, as wine and women to a young fellow, or a bribe to a judge, or avarice to old age.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Judge
  • Prince
  • Arbitrary

• I care about strangers when they're abstractions, but I feel almost nothing when they're literally in front of me.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Strangers
  • Literally
  • Abstractions

• The grief of losing my father has come in waves over the years, as it does with most people. His love and devotion as a father provided my closest, most intimate relationship. Dad, and our time together, is in my bones. While reflecting on him, the memories themselves seem to boil down into certain 'essences of Dad.'

  

  Jennifer Grant
  • People
  • Time
  • Together

• The smells are very strong on 'Game of Thrones': the incense, the fire, the heat of all the burns. The smell of Lancel's Faith Militant cloth is very thick in my nostrils right now. And I think the warmth of it all: the hard work ethics, the ambiance, the temperature of the set. There are so many sensory memories of it, which will never leave me.

  Eugene Simon
  • Memories
  • Ethics
  • Temperature