Isaiah Washington Quotes

You need a blueprint to build a house because you need to know how far the concrete is going to be poured and you need to know how think the walls have to be.

Isaiah Washington

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• Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.

  

  Ian Botham
  • Time
  • Good
  • Light

• There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Believe
  • History
  • Change

• I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find all the spin-off games pretty easy too.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Good
  • Great
  • Pretty

• I strongly believe that crossing the aisle for the good of the American people is more important than party politics.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• The only danger about websites, you know, is people who remember something you did or said thirty or forty years ago, and bring it up against you, so you're going for a job and you don't get it.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • People
  • Up
  • Job

• In England, we have this saying about Marmite: people either love it or hate it. That's like a lot of the movie work I've done. People either find it repulsive or find it really interesting and get engaged in it.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • People
  • Work
  • Interesting

• How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • People
  • Family
  • Support

• Mike Schur knows exactly what everything should look like but, at the same time, is super collaborative and loves working with actors that make choices and bring stuff to the table.

  

  D'Arcy Carden
  • Time
  • Choices
  • Look

• I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's interesting.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Interesting
  • Question
  • Religion

• I don't think I would do better books if I wrote full time. I write for amateurish reasons.

  

  Upamanyu Chatterjee
  • Time
  • Think
  • Better

• In order to defend the Chinese race, one must first defend the Confucian culture; and in order to defend the Confucian culture, one must first defend the State. This is because what preserves the race relies upon intelligence, which is in turn nurtured by Confucian education.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Culture
  • Education
  • Chinese

• My father was a politician, and a very important politician, and one of the leaders of the Iraqi Democratic Party, who believed in progress.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Important
  • Father
  • Party

• I have carried bills concerning Sudan. I've carried bills concerning Congo. I've carried bills concerning North Korea and Iran and Iraq.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Iran
  • North Korea
  • North

• Men are my bread and butter. It's what I live for! I have no shame about that.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Men
  • Live
  • Bread

• There are individuals who are working very hard to promote fear and antagonism towards Islam and Muslims in this country. It's fueled, in part, by the first African-American president that we have. Obama's father was a Muslim and people have used this to arouse hostility against him.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • People
  • Country
  • American

• I want to wake up every day and feel that I'm training harder than my competitors, that I'm dieting harder, that I'm recovering better. That's what gives me confidence when I'm lining up on the blocks. I've never gone out to prove people wrong. I just want to be the best that I can possibly be.

  

  Oscar Pistorius
  • People
  • Up
  • Day

• I had a moment in the Library of Congress among the presidential papers. I opened a folder, and there was an envelope in it. The front of the envelope was facing the table, so I didn't know what was in it. I opened it and out spilled all this hair. I turned the envelop over and it says, 'Clipped from President Garfield's head on his deathbed.'

  

  Candice Millard
  • Hair
  • Moment
  • Library

• I like black because it is a vacant space.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Black
  • Space
  • Like

• My mom didn't want us to go to the candy house, she didn't want us to go to the ice cream truck, she didn't want us to go to the... There was actually a donut truck, if that makes sense.

  

  Venus Williams
  • She
  • House
  • Mom

• Is it no imputation to be arraigned before this House, in which I have sat forty years, and to have my name transmitted to posterity with disgrace and infamy?

  

  Robert Walpole
  • House
  • Before
  • Posterity

• If we could switch off the aging gene we would. There's no technology that we've had that we haven't used. We are in the capital of staying young forever.

  

  Andrew Niccol
  • Technology
  • Aging
  • Gene

• Putting out music as it's made, versus holding it until an album's finished, allows me to be more timely and maintain balance.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Balance
  • Finished

• That's the thing about acting - it does have the feeling of downhill skiing. When it's really all going right, you know your lines, you know what's important to your character, you pick the strongest reactions possible to elements in the story. But then you let it all go and you're in the moment and stuff happens. It surprises you and it's super strong; it's like you're living life in a slightly heightened way in the time between "action" and "cut."

  

  Mira Sorvino
  • Time
  • Important
  • Character

• You need a blueprint to build a house because you need to know how far the concrete is going to be poured and you need to know how think the walls have to be.

  

  Isaiah Washington
  • House
  • Needs
  • Concrete