Mort Walker Quotes

Life is like a game of chess...there are many moves possible, but each move determines your next move...where you wind up is the sum total of all your past moves...but first you have to make some kind of move.

Mort Walker

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• I've always said that acting found me. I didn't really find it.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Me
  • Always
  • Acting

• I'm not the most technical producer, so the weird mixes and blown-out sound happen naturally.

  

  Washed Out
  • Weird
  • Sound
  • Producer

• Oh I've done bungee jumping. Skydiving, I have motorcycles that I ride. I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie in that way.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • Done
  • Way
  • Ride

• My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • World
  • Great
  • Music

• If you only do issue-based drama, you can become a boring wanker.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • You
  • Drama
  • Boring

• I play computer games, watch TV and do what normal people do.

  

  Gareth Bale
  • People
  • Play
  • Games

• Eating-wise, I'm fairly disciplined. I have to be, because if you're not eating correctly, you're not giving your body the fuel it needs. So, I stay away from carbs after the morning, and I eat a lot of protein - fish, chicken, and no red meat.

  

  Kate Levering
  • Giving
  • Morning
  • Wise

• There's ups and downs with boxing, layoffs are part of the sport and they can either help or hurt a guy.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Help
  • Guy
  • Hurt

• Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Work
  • Done
  • You

• There's a good lesson for policymakers: It's not the presence of the U.S. that is a problem for many people in the Arab region; it's the type of presence we bring.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • People
  • Good
  • Problem

• We are all lucky to be here, we are lucky to be on stage and have millions of people watch us.

  

  Gary Barlow Take That
  • People
  • Stage
  • Lucky

• I would never jeopardize classified information. I served my country well and loyally, and I had to sue the C.I.A. on First Amendment grounds.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Country
  • Information

• What does that suggest when a compound this simple plays such an important role? To me it suggests that nitric oxide is one of the most primitive elements of cellular signaling, that it goes way back into evolution.

  

  Ferid Murad
  • Important
  • Simple
  • Evolution

• Most people aren't sure what's going to happen on a first date. Given that ambiguity, every woman must be totally aware at every moment that she is responsible for every choice she makes. … protect yourselves. See trouble coming.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • People
  • She

• It was a dramatization of total chaos, a functional definition of confusion, an unchoreographed dance of sad violence. It was war.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • War
  • Violence
  • Dance

• Now that I'm angry at Harold, it's hard to remember what was so remarkable about him.

  

  Amy Tan
  • Remember
  • Angry

• The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because it is important to them; there ought to be as many for love.

  

  Margaret Atwood
  • Important
  • Snow

• The whole point is to hook people and keep them interested.

  

  Penelope Ann Miller
  • People

• Maggie Gyllenhaal, Chelsea Handler, Tilda Swinton, and Sofia Coppola are other clients. They're all risk takers but never look like they're in costume.

  

  Maria Cornejo
  • Risk

• Death is only an old door Set in a garden wall; On quiet hinges it gives, at dusk When the thrushes call. Along the lintel are green leaves, Beyond, the light lies still; Very weary and willing feet Go over that sill. There is nothing to trouble any heart; Nothing to hurt at all. Death is only an old door In a garden wall.

  

  Nancy Byrd Turner
  • Heart
  • Death
  • Light

• People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. BecauHse people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it’s true, or because they are afraid it might be true.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • People
  • Believe
  • True

• It's an experiment, and it's probably good to have a couple states try it out to see before you make that national policy.

  

  Bill Gates
  • States
  • Experiment
  • National Policy

• It's hard to unseat an innovative company with... less innovation.

  

  Andy Rubin
  • Company
  • Innovation
  • Unseat

• Life is like a game of chess...there are many moves possible, but each move determines your next move...where you wind up is the sum total of all your past moves...but first you have to make some kind of move.

  

  Mort Walker