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

• The more I read about feeding times, sleep times and waking-up times, the more inadequate and miserable I felt.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Up
  • Sleep
  • More

• Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Time
  • Human
  • Better

• 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

• Risk is the sort of word that is easy to discuss upfront but tough to handle when it comes time to pay the piper. There will always be some who wimp out and second-guess when the pain hits, but that is a childish reaction.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Time
  • Pain
  • Risk

• 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

• I figure this is my time - to relax, be with my family and have a normal life.

  

  Candace Cameron Bure
  • Life
  • Time
  • Family

• 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

• My blog is a celebration of the unexpected, settled, happy life I find myself living in Portland, Maine, at the ripe old age of fifty with someone I deeply love and am very happy with. That's part of why I started the blog.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Part

• Seriously, how many times do you see Asian-American characters that have an actual family, feelings? You don't see them love and be sad and have all the human emotions. I think that 'Gilmore Girls' is one of the very, very few where we were offered a chance to explore these characters multidimensionally.

  

  Emily Kuroda
  • Family
  • American
  • Sad

• In love as in speculation there is much filth; in love also, people think only of their own gratification; yet without love there would be no life, and the world would come to an end.

  

  Emile Zola
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• We work for the families back home, we do not work for the lobbyists that prowl the halls of the capital building, do not forget who we work for.

  

  Brian Schweitzer
  • Work
  • Home

• Acting has never been a thing that me and my dad have talked about. It's like footballers: when they get together, I bet the last thing they talk about is football.

  

  Alfie Allen
  • Together
  • Dad
  • Football

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

  

  Wilson Mizner
  • Time
  • Sleep
  • Insomnia