H. Russell Wakefield Quotes
...for chess, that superb, cold, infinitely satisfying anodyne to life, I feel the ardour of a lover, the humility of a disciple.
Quotes to Explore
-
Let's make Jeb Bush explain his plan to give millionaires another massive tax cut.
-
The health care industry can play a great role in this by being aware of the fact that these children form perhaps the most neglected group of people in the country, largely because it is hard to find them.
-
It's funny how a chubby kid can just be having fun, and people call it entertainment!
-
Some day you will be wheeled in for a heart bypass operation, and a surgeon will be the person who is now behind the counter when you renew your car registration at the department of motor vehicles.
-
For me, my home is a peaceful place where I can rest, and it gives me back energy.
-
Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
-
The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.
-
I think I need security.
-
It didn't scare me to be vulnerable because I think that's when you get something great.
-
I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
-
The one word that no politician will ever speak, is 'enough.' Enough.
-
I believe in reincarnation of the soul.
-
One of the chief tasks of any dialogue with the Gentile world is to prove that the distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism is not a distinction at all.
-
Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.
-
I enjoyed making this album a lot because of the knowledge we acquired over the last 3 years.
-
We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to know, it was too late. I know nothing of the people on my father's side; I know only that some of them came from Nepal.
-
Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.
-
I'm a black Catholic raised in Decatur, Georgia, which was very gang-infested. Then, I went to an all-white private high school and excelled in sports and wrote poetry, then played football at the University of Georgia, minoring in drama.
-
The grass roots are energized because the absolutely highest priority in the country in November is to defeat Barack Obama. I have spoken with literally thousands and thousands of tea-party activists - I have yet to meet a single tea-party leader that is not going to vote for Mitt Romney.
-
I think Facebook has a lot of work to do to make sure people are seeing meaningful things and not garbage.
-
As first and foremost a character actor, I've always resisted the temptation to cure any of the people I've played or make them lovable in any way; you've just got to celebrate them for what they are.
-
It is now possible to target adverts to the right person at the right time in the right place. But that is not enough.
-
I went on safari in South Africa just after apartheid had ended.
-
...for chess, that superb, cold, infinitely satisfying anodyne to life, I feel the ardour of a lover, the humility of a disciple.
