William Goldman Quotes

You seem a decent fellow," Inigo said. "I hate to kill you." You seem a decent fellow," answered the man in black. "I hate to die.

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• I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Love
  • You
  • Just

• My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • Idea
  • Stand
  • Three

• I studied neuroscience at the cellular level, so I was looking at learning and memory in the visual cortex of rats. Neuroscience mainly exposed me to a way of thinking - about experimentation, about what you believe to be true and how you could prove it - and how to approach things in a methodical manner.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • True

• Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.

  

  Larry Elder
  • People
  • Work
  • Profit

• I am insecure. If you ask me, everybody is.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Insecure

• I've been writing songs since I was at least 20. That's what I wanted to do before I became a model.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Writing
  • Model
  • Songs

• It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • People
  • Want
  • Easy

• I pretty much make time for that weekly manicure.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Time
  • Pretty
  • Manicure

• Even though I had been boxing, I had no idea I could beat somebody in the ring. And I had no idea I could really take a punch. When I realized that, I really started taking off.

  

  Cara Castronuova
  • Idea
  • Boxing
  • Ring

• I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Age
  • Media
  • Social Media

• The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Best

• We never did these kinds of loans that really started this mess, the subprime loans. We just never got into that business. We were enticed a lot of times to do so by a lot of Wall Street-type players, but I, frankly, never understood some of this stuff.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Business
  • Never
  • Wall

• In cartoons, in movies, time passes differently. There are flashbacks and flashfowards.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Time
  • Movies
  • Time Passes

• Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Men
  • Young
  • Danger

• Keep your eye on the ball.

  Ford Frick
  • Eye
  • Ball
  • Your

• Originally, we had a band known as Steely Dan. As we moved away from the band, we got whoever was appropriate for specific tunes. In a lot of cases, we gravitated toward jazz players who had more sophisticated harmonic concepts.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Band
  • Jazz
  • Sophisticated

• Reactionaries often describe both Marx and Lenin as theorists, without taking into consideration that their utopias inspired Russia and China - the two countries called upon to lead a new world which will allow for human survival if imperialism does not first unleash a criminal, exterminating war.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • World
  • War
  • Inspired

• Some people start a sport just to reduce weight, or some say, 'My doctor ordered me to run and do exercise', and for others, they run for completely different benefits. But it is not like that with sport. We need to eat, we need to rest, but also we need to run.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • People
  • Different
  • Rest

• The fundamental problem here is that humans and automation approach the driving task differently.

  

  Karl Iagnemma
  • Driving

• Theater is a way to keep challenging myself.

  

  Patrick J. Adams
  • Way
  • Myself
  • Theater

• I think some of the best songs are written in love and then out of love. That's the best time to put something together.

  

  Tyler James Williams
  • Time
  • Together

• Scientology, how about that? You hold on to the tin cans and then this guy asks you a bunch of questions, and if you pay enough money you get to join the master race. How's that for a religion?

  

  Frank Zappa
  • Money
  • Guy

• All strife concerning Christ's testaments cometh hence that men do not understand that Heaven wherein Christ sitteth at the right hand of God. They understand not that he is in this World, and that the World standeth in Heaven, and Heaven in the World, and are in one another, as Day and Night.

  

  Jakob Bohme
  • World
  • God
  • Men

• You seem a decent fellow," Inigo said. "I hate to kill you." You seem a decent fellow," answered the man in black. "I hate to die.

  

  William Goldman
  • Men
  • Black
  • Hate