Sam Walter Foss Quotes

Bring me men to match my mountains: Bring me men to match my plains: Men with empires in their purpose and new eras in their brains.

Sam Walter Foss

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• I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.

  

  Oren Peli
  • Learning
  • Challenge
  • Luck

• I sort of write onstage. I'll throw an idea out there, like Home Depot, and just start talking about it.

  

  Harland Williams
  • Home
  • Start
  • Talking

• The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • World
  • Law
  • Sacrifice

• Democrats should insist that a pluralistic democracy such as ours rely on bipartisanship in formulating a foreign policy based on moderation and the nuances of the human condition.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Democracy
  • Human
  • Moderation

• I'm a big crier in general. The right life insurance commercial will take me out for a couple of days.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Life
  • Me
  • Couple

• I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Back

• I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • Writing
  • Poetry
  • Qualities

• When you were on stage, you could be absolutely open about your emotions and indulge them and express yourself in a way that - in real life - I wasn't doing.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Life
  • Real
  • Yourself

• If our country is serious about reducing our dependency on foreign oil, we need to get serious about mobilizing the infrastructure necessary to distribute and dispense the next generation of fuels.

  

  Bart Gordon
  • Country
  • Serious
  • Generation

• I'm from Houston. I think I was thirty-seven before I ever set foot in Dallas, and that was just in the airport. So I've never really been there. Dad grew up in Port Arthur, Texas and all I can ever get out of him is, 'I wanted my first son to be named Dallas.'

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • Up
  • Think
  • Dad

• If you're paralyzing your face in your 20s and 30s, you're not exercising the muscles that give it strength. My feeling is, laugh, cry, move your face.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Feeling
  • Face
  • Laugh

• I've learned about ice water in the morning - when you wake up tired, or you're jet lagged and you've been flying and your skin is dry, or you have puffy eyes - the ice water really helps cool the face down and helps circulation.

  

  Barbara Fialho
  • Up
  • Eyes
  • Water

• An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • You
  • Become
  • Interview

• I'm still awaiting the idea of drawing comics for a living being a reality. I feel like I've been dodging work for 20 years, and at some point, I'll have to get a real job.

  

  Adam Hughes
  • Work
  • Real
  • Job

• Somehow I got the feeling at an early age that I had to do something important with my life.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Life
  • Important
  • Age

• At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • School
  • Friends
  • Only

• One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Books
  • Morality
  • Reasons

• Formula One has been the backdrop of my life.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Formula One

• Once we agree on the future, the present will be much easier. A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there. We have first to decide where we want to go, where we want to sail.

  

  Ami Ayalon
  • Future
  • Earth
  • Present

• What should we suppose must naturally be the consequence of our carrying on a slave trade with Africa? With a country, vast in its extent, not utterly barbarous, but civilized in a very small degree? Does any one suppose a slave trade would help their civilization?

  

  William Wilberforce
  • Country
  • Helping
  • Slave

• I am no size zero or super-thin Hollywood actress. I am built for men who like women to look like women.

  

  Kim Cattrall
  • Men
  • Women

• I deem it established, then, that the Constitution does not recognize property in man, but leaves that question, as between the states, to the law of nature and of nations.

  

  William H. Seward
  • Men
  • Constitution
  • Property

• Bring me men to match my mountains: Bring me men to match my plains: Men with empires in their purpose and new eras in their brains.

  

  Sam Walter Foss
  • Men
  • Purpose
  • Mountains