Wilson Mizner Quotes

The amount of sleep required by the average person is five minutes more.

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• Any time you can give consumers more of what they want, it's a good thing. Unbundling the album is a good thing. In the case of music - because it is content that you can slice into songs - doing that is of huge benefit to consumers.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
  • Time
  • Good
  • Music

• I remember the first time I went to Italy when I was eighteen, I was in Florence and there were all these eighteen, nineteen, twenty-year-olds gliding past on Vespas with crinkly, long, hair, and I thought I was on the set of a movie. I couldn't believe that this was going on and I hadn't known about it before. I was flabbergasted.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Long

• When I was younger, I had no interest. But after I went to Paris to see the collections for the first time a few years ago, they made a huge impression on me. I realized that fashion is an art form, like acting or painting.

  

  Camilla Belle
  • Time
  • Art
  • Fashion

• I had to let my ego go a long time ago.

  

  Sally Field
  • Time
  • Long
  • Ego

• I may have managed to build a successful technology startup that had gone public by the time my three kids hit their 13th birthdays, but don't think that bought my wife and me any special respect from our teenagers.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Time
  • May
  • Kids

• When you want something very dearly, you make the time.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
  • Time
  • Want
  • You

• I'm not afraid of turning 80 and I have lots of things to do. I don't have time for dying.

  

  Ingvar Kamprad
  • Time
  • Dying
  • Afraid

• One becomes a grandfather and one sees the world a little differently. Certainly the world becomes a more vulnerable place when one has a grandchild, or now I have two. And I think that possibly there's some tenderness that came out of just time and age and being a parent and grandparent.

  

  C. K. Williams
  • Time
  • World
  • Age

• I don't think there's ever a right time to have kids. I'm actually pretty glad it's happened quite young.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Think

• I've done teaching and things like that because if you're acting, you're becoming other human beings, and you need to have time to find who you are as well.

  

  Rachel Miner
  • Time
  • Done
  • Acting

• It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.

  

  Sally Field
  • Time
  • Long
  • Eyes

• At least half my writing time is spent researching. So for every hour I'm actually clicking on the keyboard, I'm spending another hour trying to figure out some tiny detail I need answered.

  

  Gail Carriger
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Trying

• Communications devices were always used to effect change, to effect revolution. Telephone, telegraph - these all seemed like very big enhancements at the time.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Time
  • Change
  • Revolution

• Some astronauts sleep in sort of beds - compartments that you can open up and crawl into and then close up, almost like a little bedroom.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Up
  • You
  • Sleep

• If you love food and you love red wine and they put you in France, you're in a good place and you're in a bad place at the same time. You have to weigh yourself every day, and you have to have an alarm number. When you get to that number, you have to start putting it in reverse.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Time
  • Good
  • Love

• Every time I do something, I worry it's my last job.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Time
  • Job
  • Worry

• It took me a long time to realize you don't choose what you're famous for.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Time
  • Long
  • Famous

• In my humble opinion, the ages 22 to about 27 are the most critical years of your adult life. It's your time to gestate in the cocoon of becoming.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Life
  • Time
  • Opinion

• In New York, I get people coming up to me because 'The History Boys' was such a hit on Broadway, and they show the film all the time on cable over there, so people recognise you.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Every man, woman, and responsible child has an unalienable individual, civil, Constitutional, and human right to obtain, own, and carry, openly or concealed, any weapon - rifle, shotgun, handgun, machinegun, anything - any time, any place, without asking anyone's permission.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Time

• I think a lot of modern day guitarists start off playing like Eddie van Halen, and they don't take the time to learn the basics.

  

  Alvin Lee
  • Time

• I'd like to die like my old dad, peacefully in his sleep, not screaming like his passengers.

  

  Bob Monkhouse
  • Dad
  • Die
  • Sleep

• I started with ballet, and once I started to really like it, I got into more - I did jazz and tap, and then kept going.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Jazz
  • Ballet
  • Once

• The amount of sleep required by the average person is five minutes more.

  

  Wilson Mizner
  • Time
  • Sleep
  • Insomnia