Bailey Whitfield Diffie (Whitfield Diffie) Quotes

I have been working on two problems for three years: one of them for 8 or 9 years, and one of them for 3, 4, 5 years.

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• When I was a teenager, I was an umpire for a competitive league for 8- to 9-year-olds. I was really bad at it because I didn't know all the rules, and all these kids were better athletes than me. I made a bad call, and this dad snapped on me. Then he dumped his trash from his cooler, and I had to kick him out of the stands.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Know
  • Teenager
  • Rules

• You can be revered for all sorts of qualities, but to be truly charismatic is rare. Elizabeth Taylor was, for me, one of those rarities.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Qualities
  • Charismatic
  • Revered

• I rarely went to the mosque, I never fasted, and I only prayed namaaz on the holy nights because my mom bugged me about it.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Mom
  • Holy
  • Nights

• With a warm drink, in a rocking chair and family and friends around, I am working on finding peace and joy in the moments we have been given. It doesn't have to all make sense. I don't have all the answers.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Peace

• Hold the door for a lady. Wait until a lady is out of the elevator.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Door
  • Wait
  • Elevator

• You need a big ego to be an artist.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Artist
  • Need
  • Ego

• Obviously Hall & Oates wasn't overlooked by the masses in terms of the record sales.

  

  Inara George
  • Sales
  • Masses
  • Overlooked

• I just look at what's going on in the world.

  

  Vince Flynn
  • World
  • Look
  • Just

• I always wanted to be the person to whom people looked forward to give opportunities. As opposed to always being the person who wants to work with others and who is always the backup: where it's like, 'If nothing works out then OK, let's get this person.'

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • People
  • Work
  • Opportunities

• I am performing this role of the artist and this role of the 'negress' coming into a white-box institution. It's kind of a self-appointed role: the self-designated negress.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Artist
  • Role

• It must be terribly lonely to be a king instead of a man.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Man
  • King
  • Lonely

• One of the things I've done on my shows is tell stories and do interviews.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Done
  • Things
  • Tell

• The question in the Simpson case has never been whether he is guilty or not guilty but, given the facts and circumstances of this case, whether it is possible for him to be innocent. And the answer to that question has always been an unequivocal no.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Question
  • Never
  • Facts

• When I started law school I was shocked to learn that our legal system traditionally had the man as the head and master of the family. As late as the '70s and '80s when we were fighting for the Equal Rights Amendment, states like Louisiana still had a head and master law.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Family
  • School
  • Man

• Music is not just a part of my everday life, I'm surrounded by it every minute.

  

  Haley Reinhart
  • Life
  • Music
  • Just

• My concentration span is truly that of a gnat. Some people have this ladder, and that's all there is - the ladder. I have the ladder, too, but there's a building around it with scaffolding, and lots of windows for me to peek into. Then suddenly I'll remember, 'Oh, there's the ladder. I should be concentrating on that.'

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • People
  • Remember
  • Me

• Health care providers, saving lives daily in our emergency rooms, live with federal mandates.

  

  Barbara Ann Radnofsky
  • Live
  • Health
  • Daily

• Role-playing isn't storytelling. If the dungeon master is directing it, it's not a game.

  

  Gary Gygax
  • Game
  • Master
  • Storytelling

• It's not selling out, it is called making lots of money.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Money
  • Making
  • Selling Out

• The cutting of primeval forest and other disasters, fueled by the demands of growing human populations, are the overriding threat to biological diversity everywhere.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Science
  • Growing
  • Cutting

• A life isn't measured in hours or minutes. Its the quality not the length. All things considered I've been luckier than most. Almost sixteen years on Earth, and I've already had eight good ones here. I expect to have eight more before all's good said and done. Nearly thirty-two years total, and that's not too shabby

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Life
  • Good
  • Done

• I wear make-up, and it gets a little bit thicker every year.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Years
  • Littles
  • Bits

• I have been working on two problems for three years: one of them for 8 or 9 years, and one of them for 3, 4, 5 years.

  

  Bailey Whitfield Diffie
  • Years
  • Problems