Alan Villiers Quotes

There is little man has made that approaches anything in nature, but a sailing ship does. There is not much man has made that calls to all the best in him, but a sailing ship does.

Alan Villiers

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• When I was governor, I was looking for a way to unify our state. I realized music is about the only thing that unifies Tennessee.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Music
  • Way
  • Looking

• Sports of every sort had always appealed to me.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
  • Me
  • Always
  • Sports

• Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Memory
  • Carry
  • Diary

• My father was a headmaster in England and then the dean of a college in Australia. We moved there when I was about five, so my education was in Australia, and I always felt I was Australian even though my passport was British.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Father
  • Education
  • College

• Whenever someone says the word community, I want to reach for an oxygen mask.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Want
  • Community
  • Mask

• When you a ghetto star, when you a hood star, you gonna take care of your grandmother, your mother. When you on that next level, you gotta take care of the city, the streets.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Mother
  • City
  • Star

• I don't like talking about myself and I don't like talking about the work.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Work
  • Myself
  • Like

• You know, when Republicans were in charge, we doubled the debt. But, now, our concern is the Democrats are in charge and they're tripling the debt. So, really, our concern is that we want smaller government.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Want
  • Know
  • Government

• But that the reasoning from these facts, the drawing from them correct conclusions, is a matter of great difficulty, may be inferred from the imperfect state in which the Science is now found after it has been so long and so intensely studied.

  

  Nassau William Senior
  • Great
  • Long
  • May

• If you keep telling a youngster he is no good, he might begin to doubt himself. A pat on the back could bring the very best out of him.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Good
  • Best
  • Doubt

• Back when I was jamming with Axl and the guys they had boxes of cassettes with song ideas. How do you know which ones you like now when you have that many ideas.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Song
  • Know
  • Ideas

• Instead of asking 'what do I want from life?', a more powerful question is, 'what does life want from me?'

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Life
  • Question
  • Powerful

• It is a grand thing to see a man thoroughly possessed with one master-passion. Such a man is sure to be strong, and if the master-principle be excellent, he is sure to be excellent, too.

  

  Charles Spurgeon
  • Strong
  • Passion

• I see the Internet as the next big deal - I wanted to get in on it early on so I wouldn't get behind it all.

  

  Bruce Campbell

• When technology reaches that level of invisibility in our lives, that's our ultimate goal. It vanishes into our lives. It says, 'You don't have to do the work; I'll do the work.'

  

  Astro Teller
  • Work
  • Technology

• I'm not trying to make friends, I'm trying to make money.

  

  Kevin O'Leary
  • Trying
  • Money
  • Friends

• Whether you like it or not, the digital age has produced a new format for modern romance, and natural selection may be favoring the quick-thumbed quip peddler over the confident, ice-breaking alpha male.

  

  Ashton Kutcher
  • May
  • Age

• There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

  

  Christopher Morley
  • Life
  • Good
  • Learning

• I'm an activist and advocate. I have empathy. It is hard to ignore causes.

  

  Brandon Victor Dixon
  • Ignore
  • Empathy

• A map, it is said, organizes wonder.

  

  Ellen Meloy
  • Wonder
  • Map

• We got a little wet. We got blasted, man. We were on top of a sub, on top of a boat, submerged underwater when we get thrown off the sub and the boat. It was winter there, and we were wearing wet suits, but you still get cold and damp. It was intense.

  

  Catherine Bell
  • Winter
  • Boat
  • Top

• There is little man has made that approaches anything in nature, but a sailing ship does. There is not much man has made that calls to all the best in him, but a sailing ship does.

  

  Alan Villiers
  • Made
  • Littles
  • Boat