Carl Lewis Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
If they understand, which I believe they really are sensing, that the alternative the Republicans have been offering is to repeal what we've done, to go back to Bush policies - and if you asked the public what would you prefer, Bush economic policies or Obama economic policies, they take and prefer Obama economic policies.
-
In my opinion - in Georgia, there's a town called Lula. And Lula, Georgia, has the best peaches.
-
Because there are so many shows on and because I've been so hands-on - I've had a piece on almost every single week - I don't know how to cut back on that. You really can't.
-
The cultural decoding that many American writers require has become an even harder task in the age of globalisation. The experience they describe has grown more private; its essential background, the busy larger world, has receded.
-
I think the attraction to Israeli women stems from the fact that we're exotic and the fact that there are many talented and beautiful women in Israel. I think that there is also greater awareness of Israel than before in the movie industry.
-
I believe journalism or news will migrate to the online medium.
-
Comedy can be harder because if you aren't making the audience laugh, they're going to turn on you quicker. They'll go along with mediocre drama more than they'll go along with mediocre comedy.
-
Most people sort of enjoy going to work because of the socialisation, a chance to flirt with co-workers and so on, but actually hate the job they do.
-
When you walk out onstage in front of 65,000 people, it can bring you to tears.
-
I am a newspaper columnist and a professional screenwriter, but my real love is the novel for all the room it has for characters to come alive and breathe and face their challenges.
-
When you speak directly at things and don't say you're going to try to do something or that you hope to do something, the universe will work with you. Think about it this way - a boomerang goes out and comes back to you if you throw it. If you throw it out at the universe, it will come back down to you on Earth.
-
I was famous from the age of 13, and after a while you become immune to it - in a good way. You look at positives and what you can do with it.
-
My favourite smell on a man is Lynx and Marc Jacobs.
-
You read a million scripts during pilot season, and most of them are not very good, so the good ones really shine.
-
If you don't ponder the end of the world on a regular basis, I don't think you're really human.
-
I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand.
-
I have hundreds and hundreds of people from Brazil, Chile, Columbia and Argentina, every day, buying my music and telling me about it online.
-
I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country.
-
I think the only time I show my emotions and anger is on the cricket field; otherwise, I've mellowed down. And with age, I think, with age you always end up mellowing down.
-
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
-
Aspiration, it seems, is in danger of becoming the preserve of the wealthy.
-
The mind attracts the thing it dwells upon.
-
I did Broadway shows. And I started realizing that this is actually how I'm going to make my living. So maybe I should try to do television and film and make a better living and get an occasional residual check so I can pay a mortgage someday.
-
I enjoy my life, I love track, I'm set for life financially.
