R. A. Schwaller Quotes

One must know how to disregard the vehicle of the idea in order to consider its motivation alone.

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• You can get all A's and still flunk life.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Life
  • You
  • Still

• I am getting to that age where I am too old to play the boy next door and too young to play Uncle Fester.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • Age
  • Play

• There comes a time when money doesn't matter.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Time
  • Money
  • Matter

• Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Fun
  • Think
  • Want

• I'm not shy about trying to find what truth there is in any genre, whether that be an action piece, a sci-fi piece, a small indie film, or a play. I'm open to it all.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Trying
  • Truth
  • Small

• Movies were a struggle for me - they didn't come easy.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Me
  • Struggle
  • Easy

• In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.

  

  Imelda May
  • Music
  • Family
  • College

• ISIS is at war with America, but America is not at war with ISIS - not the president, nor the Congress, and certainly not the American people.

  

  Jack Keane
  • People
  • American
  • America

• I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Time
  • Career
  • Day

• The 'DuckTales' ensemble is clearly critical. There's the core set of characters - Scrooge, Webby, Launchpad, Huey, Dewey and Louie... Plus there's Gyro and Duckworth and Mrs. Beakley and so on. The cast is huge.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Characters
  • Core
  • Ensemble

• Another thing: despite my youthful appearance, I am quite capable of making decisions.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Decisions
  • Youthful

• Extremism is always potentially dangerous, but in Hungary's political reality, Jobbik and the other far-right parties have no chance of having a major influence.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Political
  • Reality
  • Chance

• I think all television has to be about relationships and I don't think horror for the sake of it can work unless you're able to ground it in some kind of relationship.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Work
  • Think
  • Relationship

• With a disaster like global warming, it's too late to worry about when it's looming except to figure out how to adapt to it.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Worry
  • Adapt
  • Global Warming

• I was a shy gay man at a time when it was illegal to be gay.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Time
  • Man
  • Gay

• For a man, there's a big responsibility that comes with having a boy because men are made by their fathers. If you've got a good productive man around it's better. I have such a close relationship with my dad and that responsibility to produce a good man is something I think about.

  

  Rafe Spall
  • Good
  • Men
  • Man

• I feel like I am a lot of who I am because I watched these shows that said it was okay to be a total weirdo. Shows like 'Pete and Pete,' 'Hey, Dude,' 'Salute Your Shorts' - that's what I grew up with.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Feel
  • Shows
  • Weirdo

• My Christian Louboutins are also one of the secrets to my not-for-profit success. Here's why - and it's something that everyone who manages employees, whether in a for-profit business or a not-for-profit, should keep in mind: A little extravagance goes a long way.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Long
  • Mind
  • Why

• Being a good songwriter means paying attention and sticking your hand out the window to catch the song on the way to someone else's house!

  

  Nanci Griffith
  • Good
  • House
  • Song

• A notable scheme has occurred to me.

  

  Jack Vance

• The best thing I've learned is, if you're going out, never go out alone - you leave yourself vulnerable. If you've got someone else there you trust, they can say, be wary of that person. I probably used to be too trusting of people.

  

  Daniel Radcliffe
  • People
  • Alone
  • Trust

• In 2007, Michael Grimm, former Marine, former FBI agent, accountant and attorney, was poised for success as a small business owner. Instead, as alleged, Grimm made the choice to go from upholding the law to breaking it. In so doing, he turned his back on every oath he had ever taken.

  

  Loretta Lynch
  • Business
  • Success
  • Small

• One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Remember
  • Details

• One must know how to disregard the vehicle of the idea in order to consider its motivation alone.

  

  R. A. Schwaller
  • Alone
  • Ideas
  • motivation