Andrew Dickson White Quotes

I will not permit thirty men to travel four hundred miles to agitate a bag of wind.

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• When I was 14, I was a passenger in a terrible accident.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Terrible
  • Accident

• To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Education
  • Like
  • Eating

• I like to do things quickly because I'm easily bored.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Like
  • Bored
  • Because

• That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Happy
  • Feel
  • Guilty

• Of course as children, we all, in all cultures and societies, learn behavior from observation, imitation, and encouragement of various kinds. So by the suggestion made, we all 'pretend' most of the time.

  

  Gary Gygax
  • Time
  • Children
  • Learn

• Promotions can be seen in two ways - either you hate them, and they're a burden, and you are getting through with it, or you can enjoy them. I decided early on that I was going to enjoy them. I did 43 interviews in a day for 'Kahaani.'

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Hate
  • Day
  • Enjoy

• This uprising of 1976-77 was, of course, the historic watershed... Within a short period of time, it propelled into the forefront of our struggle millions of young people.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • People
  • Time
  • Struggle

• Because of the way tech is changing, and becoming cheaper and user-friendly, it's becoming easier to make films cheaply, maintaining quality.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Way
  • Quality
  • Changing

• I believe that a politician needs to be with people.

  

  Rahul Gandhi
  • People
  • Believe
  • I Believe

• I'm very much interested in music specifically and wanted to make a film about it, but not in an atmosphere of censorship.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • Music
  • Film
  • Very

• I know that my unity with all people cannot be destroyed by national boundaries and government orders.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • People
  • Unity

• Girl, you don't know what you're puttin' through. It's a business doing pleasure, a business doing pleasure with you.

  

  Tim McGraw
  • Business
  • Girl

• Tenderness has created the first 'social order' - that of the mother with her offspring. Through motherliness, woman later makes her great contributions to civilization.

  

  Ellen Key
  • Great
  • Mother

• I eat everything I want on Christmas day. I really don't watch what I eat. It's not like you have Christmas every day!

  

  Adriana Lima
  • Christmas

• I think that a good movie creates its own world, and that world needn't refer to anything that's real. If it's consistent, if it's entertaining, if it's interesting, it justifies its being there.

  

  Christopher Walken
  • World
  • Good
  • Real

• The third year of MASH was when I realized I was a hit.

  

  Jamie Farr

• We are not makers of history. We are made by history.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • History

• My wife runs a non-profit that gives legal information online to victims of domestic violence.

  

  Marshall Curry
  • Wife
  • Violence

• We go there with confidence, but we know there is a very fine line between success and failure in this game.

  

  Alan Shearer
  • Game
  • Success
  • Confidence

• It was great about the sizes of the audiences we were getting in America, but sometimes you feel like telling some of the men that you're not on stage to have your body looked at.

  

  Dolores O'Riordan The Cranberries
  • Great
  • Men
  • America

• Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Different
  • History
  • Hope

• An attorney can find it consistent with his dignity to turn wrong into right, and right into wrong, to abet a lie, nay to create, disseminate, and with all the play of his wit, give strength to the basest of lies, on behalf of the basest of scoundrels.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Lies

• The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Body
  • Instrument
  • Hold On

• I will not permit thirty men to travel four hundred miles to agitate a bag of wind.

  

  Andrew Dickson White
  • Men
  • Travel
  • Agitate