Victor Mature Quotes

Actually, I am a golfer. That is my real occupation. I never was an actor. Ask anybody, particularly the critics.

Victor Mature

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• I love my family and I miss them very much but I'm a new person now. I know a lot of people will not agree with what I've done, but it was right for me.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • People
  • Family
  • Love

• I'm a little bit awkward on Twitter; like, I'm never really sure what to say.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Never
  • Twitter
  • Awkward

• I've had many a player tell me all through high school and right up until signing day that they were coming to Alabama, then they signed with somebody else.

  

  Bear Bryant
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Experience
  • Intellect
  • Dogma

• The scene changes but the aspirations of men of good will persist.

  

  Vannevar Bush
  • Good
  • Men
  • Changes

• So many stars lose their way, and with success become more neurotic, not less so.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Success
  • Stars
  • Lose

• I like to spoof the original Gothic classics, so there is also good dose of comedy in the 'Parasol Protectorate' - giggling readers are good.

  

  Gail Carriger
  • Good
  • Comedy
  • Like

• I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Work
  • Art
  • Search

• After all those years in Asia, I don't have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and - Boom! - people go.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • People
  • Movie
  • Release

• DMs are a lot like email - and should have the same privacy protections as a mailed letter.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Same
  • Privacy
  • E-mail

• One of the ideas that was developed at MIT in a workshop was, imagine this pipe, and you've got valves, solenoid valves, taps, opening and closing. You create like a water curtain with pixels made of water. If those pixels fall, you can write on it: you can show patterns, images, text.

  

  Carlo Ratti
  • Fall
  • Water
  • Ideas

• A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Love
  • Inspired
  • Stories

• We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • Country
  • Small
  • Build

• People respect nonfiction but they read novels.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • People
  • Respect
  • Nonfiction

• The worst thing you can do if you want to start a fight is to use derogatory terminology.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Want
  • Fight
  • Start

• Eight o'clock is hard no matter what network you're on because people have to make a decision to sit down and start watching TV. Every other time slot is a time slot that happens after someone's watching something else.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • People
  • Time
  • Decision

• If you turn the other cheek, you can be enslaved for 1,000 years.

  

  Malcolm X
  • You
  • Years
  • Turn

• We will win an election when all the seats in the House and Senate and the chair behind the desk in the Oval Office and the whole bench of the Supreme Court are filled with people who wish they weren't there.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • House
  • Wish

• Our legacy is really the lives we touch, the inspiration we give, altering someone's plan - if even for a moment - and getting them to think, cry, laugh, argue. More than anything, we are remembered for our smiles; the ones we share with our closest and dearest, and the ones we bestow on a total stranger, who needed it RIGHT THEN, and God put you there to deliver.

  

  Carrie Hamilton
  • Thinking
  • Giving
  • Inspiration

• The attempt to regulate relations between people too closely, by means of the law, in the name of an abstraction such as equality, leads to both absurdity and cruelty. The British are fast turning themselves into a nation of slaves, where even the slave-masters are not free.

  

  Anthony Daniels
  • People
  • Free
  • Law

• I hate to tell you this, but there's an entire subset of people out there who think of me as quite a dull actor. And that's the word used, and often – dull.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • People
  • Hate
  • Actor

• I am tired of the position of the dried-up critic and doubter. The believer is the true full man. (from a biography of James by Robert D. Richardson)

  

  William James
  • Men
  • Tired
  • Critics

• Actually, I am a golfer. That is my real occupation. I never was an actor. Ask anybody, particularly the critics.

  

  Victor Mature
  • Actor
  • Critics
  • Golfer