Missi Pyle Quotes

I have a very hard time with confrontation in my own life, and I end up being way too nice.

Missi Pyle

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• I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Business
  • Game
  • Offer

• I think, for me, Julian Schnabel set a great precedent in being able to cross over so successfully. I feel like his artwork is kind of big, grand, and bombastic, yet the films that he makes are very beautifully sensitive, and I just feel that his filmmaking sensibility is very different from his artwork.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Great
  • Different
  • Me

• I'm a monomaniac with one goal: clean air from clean energy.

  

  Sam Wyly
  • Energy
  • Air
  • Goal

• D.C. is where I started. That's home for me. I always love coming back to the area. They treat me so well, and people show up. They're excited and claim me as their own. I love it.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • People
  • Up
  • Love

• Hearing a whole entire room sing back to me, 'I guess it's true I'm not good at a one-night stand,' you know, I just can't explain the feeling. It's unreal. You feel like you've just read your diary to thousands of people and they've gone, 'It's okay. We still love you.'

  

  Sam Smith
  • People
  • Love
  • Know

• When I was a kid, I would make these incredibly bloody movies in my back yard. I was constantly making weird blood concoctions; Jell-O and milk was a good one. I was constantly ruining clothes and staining my parents' walls and stuff.

  

  Fran Kranz
  • Good
  • Parents
  • Weird

• The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Mind
  • Perception
  • Act

• Enough to using Texas as a political laboratory for testing far-right ideas. Enough to using Texas as a workshop for fattening the wallets of their special interest friends and supporters. And enough of politicians listening only to each other, rather than real Texans.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Real
  • Friends
  • Political

• Mass layoffs produce big winners and losers. Most workers who remain are financially unscathed, even though their employer is struggling.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Winners
  • Losers
  • Employer

• I don't read books.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Books
  • Read

• You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Man
  • Know
  • Him

• My hobbies are painting, crafts, and I like golfing.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Like
  • Painting
  • Hobbies

• Tum pater omnipotens misso perfregit Olympumfulmine et excussit subiectae Pelion Ossae.

  

  Ovid

• Capitalist production does not exist at all without foreign commerce.

  

  Karl Marx

• The Spirit is like new wine, see the disciples all, Like men inebriate, swept away and enthralled By both its heat and strength; thus it remains true still That the disciples had of sweetest wine their fill

  

  Angelus Silesius
  • Men
  • True
  • Wine

• America has never taken me to its heart. I've always been an outsider.

  

  Don McCullin
  • Heart
  • America
  • Taken

• I hate the noise and hurry inseparable from great Estates and Titles, and look upon both as blessings that ought only to be given to fools, for 'Tis only to them that they are blessings.

  

  Mary Wortley Montagu
  • Great
  • Hate

• I'm a very musical person.

  

  Mary Steenburgen

• Wherever we are, any time of night or day, our bosses, junk-mailers, our parents can get to us. Sociologists have actually found that in recent years Americans are working fewer hours than 50 years ago, but we feel as if we're working more. We have more and more time-saving devices, but sometimes, it seems, less and less time.

  

  Pico Iyer
  • Time
  • Night
  • Parents

• ... a penny saved is better than a penny earned.

  

  Martin Luther

• I still don't really know what my style is. I like a lot of different kinds of comedy, I like watching it and I like being inventive and original. That's the problem with doing a longer set - you can't do every joke that you have because some stuff contradicts other stuff. Even when you know that the audience knows that you're joking and it's not true, you still can't do a joke about your family dying and then later talk about your Mom. I mean you want to keep some kind of cohesive order going.

  

  Bonnie McFarlane
  • Family
  • Comedy
  • Problem

• I believe you need films like that - feel-good, breezy films that families can watch.

  

  Akkineni Nagarjuna
  • Good
  • Believe

• You need to make a trip to Des Moines in August, because the Iowa State Fair really is a sight to see. The Iowa Fairgrounds are usually packed for those 11 days, and you get a real sense of what a classic Midwest fair is all about.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Real
  • You
  • Need

• I have a very hard time with confrontation in my own life, and I end up being way too nice.

  

  Missi Pyle
  • Life
  • Hard
  • Times