Shirley Henderson Quotes

You suddenly find yourself somewhere and you wonder, how did I get in this room? That happens to me all the time, every day!

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• Hors D'oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces.

  

  Jack Benny
  • Forty
  • Sandwich
  • Ham

• I was like, 'I don't know if I could be an Olympian...' But my dad really influenced me to stay and be in the Olympics.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Know
  • Me
  • Dad

• The Italians have had two thousand years to fix up the Forum and just look at the place.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up

• 'I've got a sort of idea,' said Pooh at last, 'but I don't suppose it's a very good one.' 'I don't suppose it is either,' said Eeyore.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Good

• In playing Beethoven the violinist should be a medium. There is little that is personal or that can be reduced to ingratiating sounds, pleasing slides and so on. Everything is dictated by the significance, the weight, structure and direction of the notes and passages themselves.

  

  Yehudi Menuhin

• I was writing this really long joke about the smell of poop, and I was like, 'What am I doing with my life?' I started to think about why I was a comedian, and then I came up with a reason for existence, which is: inserting absurdity or stupidity into strangers' lives in order to make the world a better place.

  

  Kurt Braunohler
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• I think I have always tried to connect my comedy to my art.

  

  Louie Anderson
  • Art
  • Comedy

• The worst thing is when a guy just looks awkward. It's not attractive.

  

  Rita Ora
  • Guy

• We have a big fan base in Australia, but none of us have been before.

  

  Lukas Forchhammer Lukas Graham

• That's a part of success: figuring out what success means to you.

  

  Elvis Mitchell
  • Success

• Soccer is the most difficult business that we're in, because one day you're on top, and the next day you're very low.

  

  Emilio Azcarraga Jean
  • Business
  • Soccer

• My books often involve characters who began in some form of mental isolation, with a feeling of having died to the world. Then they become involved in some kind of action where by necessity they're forced to reengage, to get back into the game of life, as it were. You could say that about 'Chance.'

  

  Kem Nunn
  • Life
  • World
  • Game

• Every time you write anything, at least half your readers are going to disagree with you. A big part of sports writing is how you respond to that tension.

  

  Joe Posnanski
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Sports

• I love hitting the ball, controlling the ball. And yeah, even the roar of the crowd. I enjoy the roar of the crowd probably less than some players and more than some. But I'm not out here to be a celebrity.

  

  David Duval
  • Celebrity

• I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?

  

  Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  • Life
  • World
  • God

• I'm still trying to be No. 1 in the world, like everyone else is out there.

  

  Jason Day
  • World
  • Trying

• Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.

  

  Jesus Christ
  • Door

• Writing songs has always been hard and easy. It's not always easy when you want it to be, and then sometimes it's just like turning on the faucet. That's just the nature of it.

  

  Jeff Tweedy
  • Writing
  • Nature

• I can't learn in school, but I can learn from somebody who I think is cool and great.

  

  Jimmy Iovine
  • Great
  • School
  • Cool

• I work more now because at this time of my life I am not disturbed from my aim by outside pressures such as family, passionate relationships, dealing with 'who am I?' - those complications when one is searching for one's self.

  

  Jeanne Moreau
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• I believe that most people would like to cooperate in reducing waste, but to encourage them, the national policy should be clear, well advertised, and consistent. Even within Greater London, there is a huge discrepancy between council policies. I believe a national waste management initiative should be designed and implemented by government.

  

  Jeremy Irons
  • People
  • Believe
  • Management

• I think people are going to return to sanity when they see how ridiculous many of these charges are, and how the predictions are not borne out.

  

  Dixie Lee Ray
  • People

• It was known in the mid 90s already that Saddam Hussein was a dangerous tyrant that he had already launched aggressions against Iran, he had invaded Kuwait.

  

  Douglas Feith

• You suddenly find yourself somewhere and you wonder, how did I get in this room? That happens to me all the time, every day!

  

  Shirley Henderson