Stirling Moss Quotes

It is better to go into a corner slow and come out fast, than to go in fast and come out dead.

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• Baseball can be slow in many ways. The action starts with when the pitcher delivers the ball. But the action really starts when the crack of the bat happens.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Action
  • Baseball
  • Slow

• People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

  

  Ovid
  • People
  • Confidence
  • Slow

• Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Life
  • Dead
  • Alive

• No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Success
  • Price
  • Corner

• Audiences aren't going to get rid of me. One thing I can say, with absolute certainty, is that my shows will still be performed when I'm dead, buried and forgotten. They're going to absolutely outlive me, which is a wonderful thing to think about.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Dead
  • Forgotten
  • Audiences

• We treated all of the dead with dignity.

  

  Harry Anderson
  • Dead
  • Dignity
  • Treated

• If we'd had another carefree 70's, I'd have been dead. It was a little too carefree, you know? I don't know how carefree they were for me, I think I was worried then, I can't remember what about.

  

  Randy Newman
  • Remember
  • Know
  • Dead

• I've always felt music is the only way to give an instantaneous moment the feel of slow motion. To romanticise it and glorify it and give it a soundtrack and a rhythm.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Music
  • Moment
  • Slow

• I feel able to steal from Emily Dickinson because she's both wonderful and dead.

  

  Mal Peet
  • She
  • Feel
  • Dead

• You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Up
  • Kids
  • You

• Most of the authors I liked were dead, so it didn't seem like a safe occupation.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Like
  • Dead
  • Seem

• I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Walk
  • Slow
  • Backwards

• I'll only retire in the day I should be dead and they have me buried, and some idiot spell over my casket some stupid gospel stuff.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Me
  • Stupid
  • Dead

• Selling a film option and getting a studio on board can be a slow process, and until things are official, you never want to spill the beans.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Want
  • Process
  • Option

• It's not in the draftsmanship, it's in the man. Like I say, a tool is dead. A brush is a dead object. It's in the man. If you want to do it, you do it.

  

  Jack Kirby
  • Dead
  • Brush
  • Draftmanship

• Every corner in a house, every angle in a room, every inch of secluded space in which we like to hide, or withdraw into ourselves, is a symbol of solitude for the imagination; that is to say, it is the germ of a room, or of a house.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • House
  • Space
  • Imagination

• If God is dead, somebody is going to have to take his place. It will be megalomania or erotomania, the drive for power or the drive for pleasure, the clenched fist or the phallus, Hitler or Hugh Hefner.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • God
  • Power
  • Place

• It seemed to me as we were talking about Christ rising from the dead, the sun popped over the mountain. That was indicative of Christ rising - a new day. It just makes sense.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Sun
  • Christ
  • Mountain

• No grief reaches the dead.

  

  Sallust
  • Grief
  • Dead
  • Reaches

• I think in France, for example, we can say whatever we want about the French, but going out and dining is more about the intellectual moment to share with the people you dine with than trying to figure out what the chef did with that little piece of salmon or lobster and all that.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • People
  • Trying
  • Moment

• If I'm going to produce something, it's going to be with somebody I think is special. Once I go beyond a handful of directors, like Scorsese, there are very few I want to work with.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Work
  • Think
  • Want

• Look," I whisper to Cat, "Shooting star! That's good luck." She rolls her eyes. "It's a plane, you idiot," she says, and when I look again I can see that she's right. Typical.

  

  Cathy Cassidy
  • Eye
  • Looks
  • Luck

• If only I had thought of a Kodak! I could have flashed that glimpse of the Under-world in a second, and examined it at leisure.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • World

• It is better to go into a corner slow and come out fast, than to go in fast and come out dead.

  

  Stirling Moss
  • Dead
  • Slow
  • Corner