Simon Travaglia Quotes

Death is inevitable, but Life - that's the tricky bit where things happen.

Simon Travaglia

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• My dinner spot is usually in front of the TV. I'll grill a steak and whip up a salad and watch 'Hoarders'. I love it because a) I'm kind of voyeuristic, and b) every time I see an episode, I go to the one room where all my unpacked boxes wound up, and I throw out a box of stuff.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Time
  • See
  • Throw

• If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • People
  • Want
  • Stop

• I love the idea of thinking of cinema as not that far from music. A lot of my favourite movie makers, the way they move their cameras or the way they cut just feel very musical - even if the movies have no music in them at all.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Love

• The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.

  

  Walter Winchell
  • Mother
  • Like
  • Public

• In the hands of a passive-aggressive person who wants to abdicate responsibility for things, texting is a great tool. You can really go nuts.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Great
  • Responsibility
  • Hands

• I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • People
  • Day
  • Betrayal

• 'Baahubali's success augurs well for the Telugu film industry as a whole. It has opened up new markets.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Up
  • Success
  • Film

• When I'm not painting, I'm Oujia-boarding with my photos. I'll sort through my pictures, put them in different folders, and come back months later to one in particular and try to figure out why I took it.

  

  Damian Loeb
  • Different
  • Why
  • Painting

• I go to Australia probably once every two years. It's wide-open spaces there, so I just rent a motorcycle and ride out to the middle of the continent. For hours, you don't see anybody.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Ride
  • Australia
  • Motorcycle

• A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Woman
  • Hurt
  • Thing

• Let's be clear about what Common Core is. It spells out what students should know at the end of each grade. The goal is to ensure that our students are sound in math and literacy and that our schools have some basic consistency nationwide. But the standards do not dictate a national curriculum, and teachers are not told how or what to teach.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Goal
  • End
  • Math

• The Millennium Development Goals were a pledge to uphold the principles of human dignity, equality and equity, and free the world from extreme poverty. The MDGs, with eight goals and a set of measurable time-bound targets, established a blueprint for tackling the most pressing development challenges of our time.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Time
  • World
  • Free

• I love ballet because you can see how beautiful the body is.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Beautiful
  • Body
  • See

• Governments and scientists in India need to ensure that politics and religious ideology do not intrude into science. They belong to separate spheres, and if they are not kept separate, it is science in India and the country as a whole that will suffer.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Country
  • Science
  • Religious

• R is for wussies if you're talking about blood and guts.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • You
  • Blood
  • Talking

• I'm training once a day, four days a week, and just loving life.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Life
  • Day
  • Training

• Focusing purely on extremism, whether in the Arab-Islamic world or the West, will not alleviate the root causes of tensions between members of different cultures. It will only alienate those who do not recognise themselves in those stereotypes, and generate fear and misunderstanding.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • World
  • Different
  • Fear

• 'That’s me,' he said, motioning to the robot. 'That’s all of us. We prattle about free will, but we’re nothing but response...mechanical reaction in prescribed grooves.'

  

  Alfred Bester
  • Free

• Nobody likes to make a hard decision, because you're running every two years.

  

  Blake Farenthold
  • Running
  • Decision

• We're all going about trying to make beauty in the world and trying to make order out of chaos. And that's what art is.

  

  Rebecca Makkai
  • World
  • Beauty
  • Make

• Years bleach away the sense of things until all that's left is a bone-white past, stripped of feeling and significance.

  

  M. L. Stedman
  • Past
  • Feeling

• Death is inevitable, but Life - that's the tricky bit where things happen.

  

  Simon Travaglia
  • Life
  • Death
  • Happen