Michael Finley Quotes
You have to get yourself psyched up because you never have a night off defensively, especially at my position.
Quotes to Explore
-
My dad and I would watch Ray Lewis a lot. His tenacity, and he was everywhere. I wanted that mindset, too.
-
From my point of view, I'm a totally normal person! Really! I have a family. I have kids. I have a house... I don't have a dog.
-
I myself am a former commando fighter.
-
Few men could explain why they enlisted, and if they attempted they might only prove that they had done as a politician said the electorate does, the right thing from the wrong motive.
-
My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.
-
I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.
-
Globalised manufacturing and procurement mean that a lot of high-polluting, heavy duty jobs are transferred to China. We will ask major companies, such as Wal-Mart, Microsoft and IBM to put pressure on their Chinese suppliers.
-
When you finally go back to your old home, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood.
-
At age 7 In eight hours of concentrated practice between my twice-weekly lessons, I memorized the A major and played it for Persinger.
-
Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law. And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
-
Men are always more inclined to pitch their estimate of the enemy's strength too high than too low, such is human nature.
-
I’ve known Donald (Trump) for a few decades, and what you can say without argument is that he’s a good father. His kids have turned out really well. There’s nothing bad you can say about that.
-
It is not the same thing. You are perhaps not lying, but you are not telling the truth.
-
I never wear suits.
-
I had a somewhat frenetic childhood because my mum and dad split up when I was five, and then my mum remarried.
-
If it were in our national security to deploy to South Africa under apartheid, would we have found it acceptable or customary to segregate African American soldiers from other American soldiers, and say, 'It's just a cultural thing'? I don't think so. I would hope not.
-
Dream sleep provides a fascinating neurochemical soothing balm. It is during dream sleep and only during dream sleep when our brain shuts off a stress-related neurochemical called noradrenalin.
-
I change my mind every five minutes. I'm very brutal with my own process. I throw everything away very quickly, and then I have to go out and rummage through the rubbish in the middle of the night to try to find a bit I'd written a week ago.
-
Discover the times when you're most creative - mornings, nights, afternoons - and clear the time to work then. Many writers find the mornings are best, and the afternoons are only good for editorial corrections, or getting the washing done. Others can only work through the night, drunk.
-
Beetroot is a great salad ingredient, especially when still warm; the colour ain't bad, either.
-
I admire writers such as Elmore Leonard who can nail a character in three or four lines of dialogue, so he doesn't need pages of back story or clumsy exposition.
-
You have to get yourself psyched up because you never have a night off defensively, especially at my position.
