Samuel Foote Quotes

Play me no plays.

Samuel Foote

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• I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Simple
  • I Can
  • Simple Things

• Politics is largely a matter of heart.

  

  R. A. Butler
  • Heart
  • Politics
  • Matter

• The economics profession advances by one confusing financial disaster at a time.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Time
  • Financial
  • Economics

• Between the ages of 18 and 20, I made three hour-long films. One was a superhero film called 'Carbolic Soap.' One was a cop film called 'Dead Right.' And the other was called 'A Fistful Of Fingers.'

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Long
  • Film
  • Three

• I love sketch comedy. My real goal is to do something with Albert Brooks. That would be my fantasy. I stay up night and day thinking up stuff he might find funny.

  

  Illeana Douglas
  • Funny
  • Comedy
  • Goal

• Fly-fishing is really addictive.

  

  Laura Donnelly
  • Fly
  • Really
  • Fishing

• The age thing really bugs me. Do people have more of a right to not like what I say because I'm 19?

  

  Fiona Apple
  • People
  • Like
  • Right

• I wasn't a sex symbol, I was a sex zombie.

  

  Veronica Lake
  • Sex
  • Symbol
  • Zombie

• A key component of social media is 'following' - and no one is there to see what you have to say on Instagram or Twitter if they aren't motivated to follow you.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Media
  • Motivated
  • Key

• The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.

  

  Quintilian
  • Idea
  • Right
  • Misery

• In chess, we have styles - like in any other field. There are also fashions in the kinds of systems that people play. So I'm trying to know my opponent as much as possible.

  Garry Kasparov
  • People
  • Trying
  • Chess

• You can easily say, 'I can go 56', but how are you going to do that?

  

  Adam Peaty
  • You
  • Say
  • I Can

• If you had no new technology, and you powered society as we do today - mostly by fossil fuels - you'd have only two choices: Doom yourself to horrific climate change by burning all that carbon and releasing all that CO2. Or power down society, reducing total energy usage around the planet.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Power
  • Today
  • Society

• Deserve your dream.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Dream
  • Motivational
  • Deserve

• I have many deep thoughts in God, but I take my own measure, lest I perish by boasting... For I myself, though I am in chains and can comprehend heavenly things, the ranks of the angels and the hierarchy of principalities, things visible and invisible, for all this I am not yet a disciple.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • God
  • Myself
  • Deep

• Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • People
  • Great
  • Gratitude

• Vol. II, Alfred A. Knopf, 1928, p. 462

  

  Oswald Spengler

• The chief difference between free capitalism and State socialism seems to be this: that under the former a man pursues his own advantage openly, frankly and honestly, whereas under the latter he does so hypocritically and under false pretenses.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Free

• I don't really see any barrier between teenage fiction and adult literature.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Literature
  • See
  • Fiction

• Joe Jackson was a tragic figure. He was a serene country boy who signed a confession he couldn't read. He was illiterate.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Country
  • Boy
  • Tragic

• I don't think there is really much from my career that I want to go back to. I think that, with most of the characters that I've been lucky enough to work with, I've said all I have to say about the Black Panther, Green Lantern, and on and on.

  

  Christopher Priest
  • Work
  • Career
  • Black

• It is one thing to make a mistake, and quite another thing not to admit it. People will forgive mistakes, because mistakes are usually of the mind, mistakes of judgment. But people will not easily forgive the mistakes of the heart, the ill intention, the bad motives, the prideful justifying cover-up of the first mistake.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Mistake

• Play me no plays.

  

  Samuel Foote