Gary Player Quotes

When a rules man gives you a ruling, that’s it. Amen.

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• The point really is that a writer tends to write a book that he or she tends to write. It's as simple as that. Of course, it's important to make a living and all that, but the main impulse as far as I'm concerned - and I'm sure as other writers are concerned - is to tell a story that I feel impelled by.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Important
  • She
  • Book

• I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Work
  • Being
  • Reputation

• Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.

  

  Daniel De Leon
  • Money
  • Poverty
  • Breeds

• I started at the top and worked my way down.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Way
  • Down
  • Top

• An MC is somebody who can control the crowd. An MC is a master of ceremonies so not only can you say your rap, you can rock the party.

  

  Ice T
  • Control
  • Party
  • Rock

• It's not just the actor in front of the camera. And it's important to have respect for all those people that work behind the camera.

  

  Dacre Montgomery
  • People
  • Work
  • Important

• The chemotherapy was very peculiar, something that makes you feel much worse than the cancer itself, a very nasty thing. I used to go to treatment on my own, and nearly everybody else was with somebody. I wouldn't have liked that. Why would you want to make anybody sit in those places?

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Why
  • Want
  • Cancer

• I am always plagued with 'I'm not skinny enough, I'm not in shape.' I am not naturally this super-svelte kind of girl. I'm okay with that in my personal life. But it is kind of hard at times. I feel inadequate, I suppose?

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Life
  • Shape
  • Skinny

• Your connections to all the things around you literally define who you are.

  

  Aaron D. O'Connell
  • You
  • Things
  • Connections

• I would spend hours absorbing every intonation, every inflection - how the singer would convey a sentiment and how it would sound coming out of their head. All of those things I very carefully watched and absorbed, and so I guess I was studying my whole life, although not in any sort of conventional way.

  

  Kat Edmonson
  • Life
  • Sound
  • Studying

• If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • People
  • History
  • Game

• The television business is based on managed dissatisfaction. You're watching a great television show you're really wrapped up in? You might get 50 minutes of watching a week and then 18,000 minutes of waiting until the next episode comes along.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Up
  • Great
  • Business

• We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

  

  Fay Weldon
  • Time
  • Men
  • Live

• As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.

  

  Karl Rove
  • People
  • Good
  • Education

• But once the ants and termites jumped the high barrier that prevents the vast variety of evolving animal groups from becoming fully social, they dominated the world.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • World
  • High
  • Animal

• I don't really care that much about eating. But I like impressing people with how good a cook I am. So I will cook. I'm an excellent cook. Not many people know that about me.

  

  Patricia Marx
  • People
  • Eating
  • Cook

• Son, give 'em a good show, and always travel first class.

  

  Walter Huston
  • Good
  • Travel
  • Son

• Everything has a purpose or premise. Every second of our life has its own premise, whether or not we are conscious of it at the time. That premise may be as simple as breathing or as complex as a vital emotional decision, but it is always there.

  

  Lajos Egri
  • Life
  • Time
  • May

• Sometimes I wake up, I feel like, I'm like 80-years-old.

  

  Bam Margera
  • Up
  • Like
  • Sometimes

• And I say it's not. I tell them these men and women are over there because our country sent them, and we have the absolute necessity to try to bring them as much happiness as we can.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • Men
  • Women
  • Country

• A man must learn to understand the motives of human beings, their illusions, and their sufferings.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Man
  • Understand
  • Illusions

• Nabokov, who I loved more than any other writer when I was young, had such contempt for dialogue. When I was younger, I never wrote a word of dialogue because of him. I thought it was a childish part of a novel.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Thought
  • Young
  • Loved

• Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn't help a human being to recognize that humanity is humanity, what is it for? So you can make a bigger salary than other people?

  

  Beah Richards
  • People
  • Help
  • Education

• When a rules man gives you a ruling, that’s it. Amen.

  

  Gary Player
  • Man
  • Rules
  • Amen