William Sanderson Quotes
When I was in the Army, I read a book by Adlai Stevenson. He said law was as noble as saving a person's life. So at one point, I felt that way too.
Quotes to Explore
-
A lot of times, when mother-son or mother-daughter relationships have been put on screen, they tend to trickle towards ugly, and I don't find that totally realistic for the wide swath of us, and it's also not that fun to watch.
-
Even complex passwords are getting easy to break if they're too short. That's because today's inexpensive computer chips have the power of supercomputers from the year 2000.
-
The rich don't win elections. They support the money, but what percentage of America are rich? What is it, 2 percent? But they all have one vote.
-
I am glad that Wimbledon is my last slam. I love the atmosphere and courts of SW19, and it is an addiction, which I will find tough to give up.
-
Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.
-
I have always lived an ordinary life, and always will. It's who and what has to do with my job that makes it 'unordinary.' I cook, go to the supermarket, pick my children up at school.
-
Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through.
-
Keep your energy levels high by adding bananas and egg whites to your diet.
-
I think that's one of the most unique and potentially powerful things about reddit - people come for the news, and stay for the community.
-
A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.
-
The whole borrowing clothes thing is very unnatural for me. I don't feel comfortable with that. If you like something, I'd just give it to you rather than sharing it.
-
I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.
-
I've been very excited to have children for a long time. It definitely added an interesting twist to the night we screened 'Lyle' at Outfest, and I got up to do the Q&A, and I had this huge belly no one was expecting. It creeped everybody out in the best way.
-
I love the way girls in London dress; it's so different to the American 'blow-dry and immaculate grooming' thing.
-
To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
-
As for my own music, I've never written a book about it. I'm not pedagogical... When I write an abstract piano sonata or a concerto, I write what I feel. I'm not a self-conscious composer.
-
Everybody goes through a phase of fatigue, and I am no different. Re-inventing yourself in your profession is the key to deal with fatigue.
-
I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
-
Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.
-
It does if you put yourself out there being a pirate. It's like if you have an army and your army sit around and not doing anything and living the lives of decadence and they're faced with a battle, and you slide. Do they deserve the right to call themselves an army? Do these pirates who are basically languishing deserve the right to call themselves pirates? They're victims of their own success.
-
The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.
-
I am always urging my students to honor their writing practice, to set up a schedule.
-
With the first record (2008’s Ladyhawke) I was quite naive, but very excited and happy.
-
When I was in the Army, I read a book by Adlai Stevenson. He said law was as noble as saving a person's life. So at one point, I felt that way too.
