Steve Toltz Quotes

I don't have a great respect for reality or getting the 'facts' as a means of putting together a story.

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• I said yes, which turned out to be the right answer.

  

  Pat Sajak
  • Right
  • Said
  • Yes

• One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Family
  • Relationship
  • Early

• I don't want to be a bust.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Want
  • Bust

• I don't feel American. I do feel like a New Yorker. I think there's a real distinction there. A city allows you to become a citizen even when you're not a national.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Real
  • American
  • Think

• I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Life
  • Up
  • Trying

• Glamorized... am I glamorous?

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Glamorous
  • Am

• I absolutely have not spoken to Marvel. It doesn't mean that my team hasn't spoken to Marvel.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Team
  • Mean
  • Marvel

• I'm shocked at being recognized.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Being
  • Recognized
  • Shocked

• My sister is not a public person, so I don't think it's right to discuss her.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Person
  • Right
  • Sister

• I'm a mother with two small children, so I don't take as much crap as I used to.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Small

• A lot of times you come against actors who come from a different direction, and you tend to meet in the middle.

  

  Laila Robins
  • Different
  • You
  • Direction

• Bring me men to match my mountains: Bring me men to match my plains: Men with empires in their purpose and new eras in their brains.

  

  Sam Walter Foss
  • Men
  • Purpose
  • Mountains

• Slow down, everyone. You're moving too fast.

  

  Galveston Giant
  • Moving
  • Down
  • Slow

• Dream within a dream, Our dream deferred. Good morning, daddy! Ain’t you heard?

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Good
  • Dream
  • Morning

• Oh, this isn't a talk show; it's more just filling time, really, 'til the infomercials start.

  

  Craig Ferguson
  • Time

• I plunged in, and set up a Twitter account. My first problem was that there were already two Margaret Atwoods on Twitter, one of them with my picture. This grew; I gave commands; then all other Margaret Atwoods stopped together. I like to think they were sent to a nunnery, but in any case they disappeared. The Twitterpolice had got them. I felt a bit guilty.

  

  Margaret Atwood
  • Up
  • Together
  • Picture

• I spent almost 25 years at Qualcomm before joining Microsoft, so in a sense, I grew up at one company. During that time, I made a very big shift from the engineering side to the business side.

  

  Peggy Johnson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Business

• I crack jokes and play games and that's really more my nature than being cold.

  

  Bernhard Langer
  • Nature
  • Cold

• I'm one of those guys a lot of people watch, imitate, and then make it seem like they were the ones who did it first.

  

  Jermaine Dupri Mauldin
  • People

• Whoever lives for poetry must read everything. How often has the light of a new idea sprung for me from a simple brochure! When one allows himself to be animated by new images, he discovers iridescence in the images of old books. Poetic ages unite in a living memory. The new age awakens the old. The old age comes to live again in the new. Poetry is never as unified as when it diversifies.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Live
  • Age
  • Light

• When people say 'Lysistrata' has always been seen as an anti-war play, what's interesting is to not make it an anti-war play, because I actually think there are important times to go to war in this world. That's just the reality. But what's interesting is the not caring.

  

  Douglas Carter Beane
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surprise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal the mind and imagination more securely.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Mind
  • Man
  • Imagination

• I don't have a great respect for reality or getting the 'facts' as a means of putting together a story.

  

  Steve Toltz
  • Reality
  • Story
  • Facts