W. C. Sellar Quotes

"I want to be a lawn." Greta Garbo.

W. C. Sellar

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• It was really weird dealing with the media. I had no idea how to handle it.

  

  Laura Dekker
  • Weird
  • Idea
  • Media

• We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Food
  • Environment
  • Care

• The mind gets distracted in all sorts of ways. The heart is its own exclusive concern and diversion.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Distracted

• I want to be in the small percentage of women who don't settle for conventional roles.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Women
  • Want
  • Small

• Irresponsibility is the mark of every European politician who holds out the promise of a better life to immigrants and encourages them to leave everything behind and risk their lives in setting out for Europe.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Life
  • Risk
  • Better

• There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • People
  • Money
  • Want

• I don't eat any red meat.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Red
  • Eat
  • Meat

• A philosopher once said, 'Half of good philosophy is good grammar.'

  

  A. P. Martinich
  • Good
  • Philosophy
  • Grammar

• Every guy should own one good pair of jeans.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Good
  • Guy
  • Jeans

• At the Summer Solstice, all is green and growing, potential coming into being, the miracle of manifestation painted large on the canvas of awareness. At the Winter Solstice, the wind is cold, trees are bare and all lies in stillness beneath blankets of snow.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Growing
  • Lies
  • Cold

• A sociopath is just a label and doesn't encompass the entire being of a person.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Person
  • Being
  • Just

• We had to get on food stamps for a short period of time, so I understand the need for those.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Time
  • Food
  • Period

• In the beginning I just wanted to survive. For the first three years, we made zero revenue. I remember many times when I was trying to pay up, the restaurant owner would say, 'Your bill was paid.' And there would be a note saying, 'Mr. Ma, I'm your customer on the Alibaba platform. I made a lot of money, and I know you don't, so I paid the bill.'

  

  Jack Ma
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Money

• I sat down and collected all of our eleven sales for the past six months and I added them all together and divided by eleven. I then took that average and presented it as the average price for a Manhattan apartment. The media ate it up.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Up
  • Together
  • Past

• The key measurement will not be how many people are watching the Univision network. But, believe me, I still think we are going to grow and are shooting for No. 1, and that spot is certainly on our radar. But engagement will be the focus and the main measure.

  

  Randy Falco
  • People
  • Believe
  • Focus

• I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones.

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • Free
  • Professional

• Merdre!

  

  Alfred Jarry

• Never stand when you can sit; never walk when you can ride; never Push when you can Pull.

  

  Laurence J. Peter

• I think I saw 'Rushmore' my senior year in high school. You know, Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson, there's such a voice to those movies. It's not like 'Die Hard' where it's like, 'Oh, this is an adventure. It just happened.' It's like you can hear the voice. I was like, 'Oh, I want to do that.'

  

  Anders Holm
  • School
  • High
  • Die

• A good heart is the sun and the moon; or, rather, the sun and not the moon, for it shines bright and never changes.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Heart
  • Sun
  • Moon

• I respect the system out there in Hollywood, I really do, but I'm very intent on art versus commerce. I want to do it all - film, TV and theatre - if it's the right job.

  

  Laura Donnelly
  • Art
  • Job
  • Respect

• A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Life
  • Learning
  • Wishes

• Alzheimer's is a devastating disease. It was painful for me and my family to watch my grandfather deteriorate. We must find a cure for this horrible disease.

  

  David Hyde Pierce
  • Family

• "I want to be a lawn." Greta Garbo.

  

  W. C. Sellar