Christopher John Wilson (C. J. Wilson) Quotes

You have to understand where you are on the continuum. I feel I have to be the criminal mastermind on the mound if I want to win.

Christopher John Wilson

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• During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.

  

  Calamity Jane
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Town

• I don't know how to ground myself without the other actor present.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Know
  • Myself
  • Present

• I think it's important for an actor to see the work they've done because every time you revisit a work you come up with a new way of improving it. It's a good way to brush up your craft and your skills, so I think it's a good thing to do, keep seeing your films.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• I want to stay alive. Yeah, I want to stay alive. I think that's the main thing. If there's a chance I can live longer, I want to do it.

  

  Jack Ramsay
  • Live
  • Want
  • Chance

• Go to the young conductors who are not making it, and you will hear how we shouldn't push ourselves or sell ourselves, how they don't have the right connections and the right opportunities. Well, you can be sure they've had the opportunities.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Opportunities
  • Connections

• Don't get me wrong: I would not say no to an Oscar!

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Me
  • Say
  • Wrong

• The best leaders over the long term are those who have a sound home life.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Life
  • Long
  • Home

• My parents separated it, and that let me know that TV life wasn't my normal life; that was my job and my hobby.

  

  Tahj Mowry
  • Life
  • Job
  • Parents

• Today, Negroes play on every big league club and in every minor league. With millions of other Negroes in other walks of life, we are willing to stand up and be counted for what we believe in. In baseball or out, we are no longer willing to wait until Judgment Day for equality - we want it here on earth as well as in Heaven.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Believe

• You might not be able to control your circumstances, but you can control your response to your circumstances.

  

  Foster Friess
  • You
  • Control
  • Circumstances

• The pace at which people are taking to digital technology defies our stereotypes of age, education, language and income.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • People
  • Age
  • Education

• Today we're going to try and say his name...OH! OHHH! Can you even say a part of his name-OH! OHHH!'

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Today

• Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand;Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Rock
  • Ugly

• The thinking of art seems final when The thinking of god is smoky dew.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • God
  • Thinking
  • Art

• Come my Celia, let us prove, While we can, the sports of love; Time will not be ours forever, He at length our good will sever. Spend not then his gifts in vain; Suns that set may rise again, But if once we lose this light, 'Tis with us perpetual night. Why should we defer our joys? Fame and rumour are but toys.

  

  Ben Jonson
  • Time
  • Good
  • Why

• At different times and in different places I have come to expect certain books to look a certain way, and, as in all fashions, these changing features fix a precise quality onto a book's definition. I judge a book by its cover; I judge a book by its shape.

  

  Alberto Manguel
  • Different
  • Book
  • Quality

• Quien ha visto con los ojos abiertos, puede volver a ver, pero con los ojos cerrados.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• Lincoln had no such person that he could talk with. Often, as a result, he debated with himself, and he would draw up a kind of list of the pros and cons of an argument, and carefully figure them out, and he might test them in public.

  

  David Herbert Donald
  • Up

• The men and women who serve this great nation, whether they are stationed in Iraq, Fort Riley, or the Korean Peninsula, or they serve us at home as our community first responders, serve because they believe in America.

  

  Kathleen Sebelius
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Men

• Don't torture yourself... that's my job.

  

  Carolyn Jones
  • Job
  • Torture

• I love tranquil solitude, And such society As is quiet, wise, and good; Between thee and me What difference? but thou dost possess The things I seek, not love them less.

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Good
  • Society
  • Wise

• I'm a books person. Yes, I have a Kindle. I used it for an hour and a half and put it in the closet.

  

  Andrew Wylie

• I always thought that the spine of a character was awe and wonder.

  

  William Shatner
  • Character
  • Wonder
  • Awe

• You have to understand where you are on the continuum. I feel I have to be the criminal mastermind on the mound if I want to win.

  

  Christopher John Wilson