Tony Snow Quotes

Many people don't give a rip about politics and know as much about public affairs as they know about the topography of Pluto.

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• I have my problems with 'Singles'. To me, 'Singles' is the least successful of the movies I've been lucky enough to make.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Successful
  • Problems
  • Lucky

• Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Happy
  • Man
  • Happiness

• I don't see a superstar out there. I don't see Georges St-Pierre coming back.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • See
  • Back
  • Superstar

• I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Work
  • Great
  • Literature

• Anti-Semitism is extremely common.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Common
  • Anti-Semitism

• Everything we do helps the new artists in the long run.

  

  Ice T
  • Long
  • New
  • Run

• In Zurich, in a cafe overlooking the Limmat, I ate butter-drenched white asparagus pulled from the ground that morning; it had the aftertaste of champagne. I've been able to appreciate epic meals in San Francisco, New Orleans, Berlin, Paris, Las Vegas.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Morning
  • Paris
  • Appreciate

• Athletes these days are too robotic. People like to see performances filled with emotion. In my career I tried to be amusing, to differentiate myself from the other champions.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • People
  • Career
  • Myself

• At times one feels that what is being said in the West is that the fact that you are a Muslim predisposes you to this blind, stupid terrorism.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • Stupid
  • Blind
  • Terrorism

• My specialty was baked potatoes with cheese melted over broccoli. I was also very good at melting cheese on bread.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Good
  • Bread
  • Cheese

• It was so satisfying for me - a great reward, just to see it done well. And it was beautifully directed by my daughter Susan Riskin. Imagine, a play about my mother directed by my daughter?!

  

  Fay Wray
  • Great
  • Done
  • Mother

• I majored in Shakespearean studies at a very tiny school in Georgia.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • School
  • Very
  • Georgia

• None of the actor methods ever discussed what it would be like to play a character on film for over a decade, and what it must be like to return to a character and imagine the time off-screen, which is interesting. There's something as an actor that I enjoy about evolving characters.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Time
  • Character
  • Interesting

• I think I really produce my best work in Iran.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Work
  • Think
  • Best

• I usually don't say anything to the actors. It works better for me because when they come to the set, they are at the same time scared and excited because they are not well aware of what will happen.

  

  Paolo Sorrentino
  • Better
  • Actors
  • Works

• I'm so proud of Maryland's firefighters, risking their lives to protect others, but we need to protect our protectors with the best equipment training and resources.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Proud
  • Best
  • Training

• I don't have time to worry about who I admire or who I identify with.

  

  Pat Nixon
  • Time
  • Worry
  • Admire

• Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • See
  • Worth
  • Seeing

• Because I was a tennis player, Billie Jean King was a hero of mine.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Player
  • King
  • Hero

• I did a lot of my school on set. Some years I went to a private school for a couple of hours, and then I'd always finish up with a tutor. I couldn't do full days, but I tried to maintain my friendships and some normalcy while doing a show.

  

  Candace Cameron Bure
  • Up
  • School
  • Couple

• Thyself and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper, as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee. Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us 't were all alike As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd But to fine issues; nor Nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence, But, like a thrifty goddess, she determines Herself the glory of a creditor - Both thanks and use.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Heaven
  • Spirit
  • Virtue

• The harder I worked, the luckier I got.

  

  George W. Jenkins
  • Work
  • Harder
  • Luckier

• People think that there is so much money in tennis, but the reality is unless you're ranked in about the top 50 you don't earn much at all. It is hard to support yourself travelling the world, to be away from home most of the year and to pay for a coach to help you become a better player.

  

  Samantha Stosur
  • People
  • World
  • Money

• Many people don't give a rip about politics and know as much about public affairs as they know about the topography of Pluto.

  

  Tony Snow
  • Politics
  • Affairs
  • Topography