Zechariah Chafee Quotes

We have the right to swing our arm until it hits the other fellow's nose.

Zechariah Chafee

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• I believe in monogamy if that's what a couple decides upon together, but it all depends on the personal history and culture of the two involved.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Believe
  • Together
  • History

• It is hard to look away from the swirl of media that the untimely and tragic death of Heath Ledger has engendered, and the Internet has jacked the frenzy into overdrive.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Death
  • Internet
  • Media

• I have turned down so many endorsements. My phone never stops ringing.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Never
  • Down
  • Phone

• I drink maple syrup. Then I'm hyper so I just run around like crazy and work it all off.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Work
  • Crazy
  • Run

• Sometimes when you play a golf course for the first time, you just got to be committed to your targets.

  

  Camilo Villegas
  • Time
  • Sometimes
  • Golf

• My castings sort of go in phases. There'll be several icy professional parts - a lawyer or a cop. And then there'll be the intelligent-but-wounded group and then the period things. It goes in sequence.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Period
  • Professional
  • Intelligent

• Christ: I dislike him very much. Still, I can stand him. What I cannot stand is the wretched band of people whose profession is to hoodwink us about him.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • People
  • Band
  • Stand

• Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Nature
  • Happiness
  • Beauty

• I've had quite a lot to conquer in myself apart from writing. Not that I've been a pure angel when I come to the end of it.

  

  P. L. Travers
  • Writing
  • Myself
  • End

• Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• There's something important, as an actor, about allowing yourself to be approached by people to do roles. People see different things in you.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • People
  • Different
  • Important

• I'm always focused.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Always
  • Focused

• I have never been assigned a game, I have never made a game I didn't want to make. I've never done anything just to make somebody some money.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Money
  • Done
  • Game

• Help save the world!

  

  Larry Wall
  • World
  • Help

• We started playing 'Free Bird' in clubs, and initially, it was just a slow ballad.

  

  Gary Rossington Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • Free
  • Bird

• There's a level of love that really dissolves a lot of egotism and self-absorption.

  

  Matt Bomer

• On my father's side, I'm descended from immigrants, one of whom was a Syrian refugee from the Armenian genocide, and my mother was an immigrant from Germany whose visa had expired and, for a year and change, was undocumented here in the U.S.

  

  Alexis Ohanian
  • Mother
  • Father

• Billions of photos are shot every year, and about the toughest thing a photographer can do is invent an original, deeply personal, instantly recognizable visual style. In the early nineties, Wolfgang Tillmans did just that, transforming himself into a new kind of artist-photographer of modern life.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • Life
  • Style

• And I certainly like being on a plane, next to a stranger, having conversations that you'd never otherwise have. You're unplugged, your phone doesn't work, you're not online.

  

  Jason Reitman
  • Work

• We exist with a wind whispering inside and our moon flexing. Amid the ducts, inside the basilica of bones.

  

  Jack Gilbert
  • Wind
  • Inside
  • Whispering

• There are those who write because they believe they have something so marvelous that it will make them famous and wealthy, a lauded commodity who will be invited to a lifetime of cocktail parties.

  

  Edward P. Jones
  • Believe
  • Famous

• I always felt a bit of a nerd, but my family gets me and my oddities. My kids and partner are way cooler than I am, but they let me in the room with them.

  

  Abi Morgan
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Partner

• So what I did was stuff my face with anything around, any old rubbish, burgers, chocolate, crisps, fish and chips, loads of it, till I felt sick - but at least I'd had the pleasure of stuffing my face and feeling really full.

  

  John Prescott
  • Feeling
  • Sick
  • Chocolate

• We have the right to swing our arm until it hits the other fellow's nose.

  

  Zechariah Chafee