Dorrel Norman Elvert Herzog (Whitey Herzog) Quotes

A slick way to outfigure a person is to get him figuring you figure he's figuring you're figuring he'll figure you aren't really figuring what you want him to figure you figure.

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• Wanted: a man who will not lose his individuality in a crowd, a man who has the courage of his convictions, who is not afraid to say 'No,' though all the world say 'Yes.'

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • World
  • Man
  • Courage

• I always said when I was younger, I wanted to write film music, and I think that's what my ultimate dream is.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Music
  • Dream
  • Write

• I don't believe in writer's block.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Believe
  • Writer
  • Block

• Novels are longer than life.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Life
  • Novels
  • Longer

• I've always had an interest in vampire films - not just 'Nosferatu,' but there are many others that I have enjoyed: Abel Ferrara, Coppola, Neil Jordan.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Just
  • Vampire
  • Others

• If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Future
  • Past
  • Taken

• I'm not any kind of a bigot, I'm not.

  

  Samuel Alito
  • Kind
  • Any
  • Bigot

• I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.

  

  Hanif Kureishi
  • Good
  • Desire
  • Goodness

• War is the ultimate tool of politics.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • War
  • Politics
  • Tool

• Yet my humble capacity has not preserved me from calumnies.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Me
  • Humble
  • Capacity

• I've been saying for years that readers want inexpensive ebooks.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Want
  • Years
  • Saying

• I often think about death, and it saddens me to leave this world and not be able to paint more. I love it so much.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • World
  • Death
  • Leave

• I've been given an opportunity to make a difference.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Opportunity
  • Difference

• The function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Artist
  • Function
  • Invent

• In TV, you don't know everything. The writers only give you scripts before you shoot the episodes. They keep you on your nerve.

  

  Yasmine Al Masri
  • You
  • Know
  • Everything

• It costs a great deal of money to do a musical, and the more money involved, the more big business influences the artform.

  

  Hal Price
  • Great
  • Money
  • Business

• Privacy isn't negotiable. It's the right of every American.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • American
  • Right
  • Privacy

• The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Up
  • Night
  • Morning

• Because of the feminist perspective, we have gotten a view of the world that is distorted.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • World
  • Perspective
  • Feminist

• On NBC, MSNBC and Hulu, you can size and cut clips to whatever length you want. Do online clips affect the TV market? I'm guessing not really.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Want
  • You
  • Size

• Buildings are deeply emotive structures which form our psyche. People think they're just things they maneuver through, but the makeup of a person is influenced by the nature of spaces.

  

  David Adjaye
  • Thinking
  • Persons
  • Makeup

• At John Schlesinger's funeral at a synagogue in St John's Wood some years ago the person I stood next to said to me encouragingly, 'Come on, Stephen - you're not singing. Have a go!' 'Believe me, Paul, you don't want me to,' I said. Besides, I was having a much better time listening to him. 'No. Go on!' So I joined in the chorus. 'You're right,' Paul McCartney conceded. 'You can't sing.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Persons
  • Said
  • Synagogue

• A slick way to outfigure a person is to get him figuring you figure he's figuring you're figuring he'll figure you aren't really figuring what you want him to figure you figure.

  

  Dorrel Norman Elvert Herzog
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  • Persons
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