Arthur M. Jolly Quotes

The waves round the horn will toss us to and fro, to and fro like a rubber duckie in the bathtub of an angry God.

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• Indeed, our British friends have decided to leave us - which is very sad for all of us - but life goes on, and the European Union as well goes on.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Sad

• Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.

  

  Felicia Day
  • People
  • Character
  • Girl

• In writing about Harold and Maureen with their terrible unspoken secret, and all those people that Harold meets as he walks to save a friend's life, I was trying to celebrate the ordinary people.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • People
  • Life
  • Writing

• One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Important
  • Business
  • High

• My heart has been stolen too - but I've gone and got it back every single time!

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Single

• What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Art
  • Decisions
  • Invite

• The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Work
  • Responsibility
  • Leadership

• I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.

  

  Vance Joy
  • Together
  • Band
  • Year

• Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Today
  • Simple
  • Perfection

• I wanted to figure out how long to cook things. I did some experiments and then wrote a program using Mathematica to model how heat is transferred through food.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Long
  • Food
  • Model

• Our primary objective must be to prevent wars, and when we fail in this, we must protect and assist the innocent victims.

  

  Felipe VI of Spain
  • Innocent
  • Protect
  • Fail

• Yes, well I really hope I can make a difference, even in the smallest way. I am looking forward to helping as much as I can.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Helping
  • Difference
  • Looking Forward

• Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate,Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate?

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Ignorance
  • Fate

• 'I assure you, paladin king, that if I had a sword in hand, I would willingly cut out your heart, here and now. If you expect me to beg look elsewhere. The fool monk can bring me to my knees, but if I am not there of my own choosing, then calling it begging would ring as hollow as does your crown, yes?' -Artemis Entreri

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Heart
  • Hand
  • King

• The destructive character knows only one watchword: make room. And only one activity: clearing away. His need for fresh air and open space is stronger than any hatred.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Character
  • Space
  • Air

• Unilateralism, as we have painfully seen in Iraq, is its own reward. Going it alone may satisfy a political instinct but it is dangerous to our military, even without their Commander in Chief taunting terrorists to 'bring it on.'

  

  Al Gore
  • May
  • Political
  • Alone

• I'm always swimming forward like a shark. You just keep going and you don't rest. I love waking up knowing that I have a problem to solve.

  

  Nile Rodgers Chic
  • Up
  • Rest
  • Swimming

• I don't think about the gender thing very much. But when I speak at schools, I've had female students say to me afterwards, "I never envisioned myself being a director, since I've never seen women do it." But after seeing me, they can picture themselves directing, so maybe we'll see more female directors.

  

  Jennifer Yuh Nelson
  • Women
  • Picture

• I figure there are a few actors like Marlon Brando, George C. Scott and Laurence Olivier who have been touched by the hand of God. I'm in the next bunch.

  

  John Forsythe
  • God
  • Hand

• I wanted to be a teacher. I love children, so I wanted to deal with children. Then I wanted to be a veterinarian. But by the age of ten or eleven, when I opened my mouth and said, 'Oh, God, what's this?' I kind of knew teaching and being a veterinarian were gonna have to wait.

  

  Whitney Houston
  • God
  • Children
  • Age

• All nonmimetic fiction is a balancing act between 'reality' and the obviously unreal, with no attempt by the author to make the latter seem like the former. Sometimes it's not an easy tightrope to walk. But when it succeeds, such fiction can brilliantly illuminate the human condition.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Reality
  • Easy
  • Author

• My favorite Galaxie 500 album is the first one, 'Today,' recorded in three days at Noise New York and produced by Kramer. It contains my favorite Galaxie 500 songs: 'Temperature's Rising,' 'Tugboat,' and our interpretation of Jonathan Richman's 'Don't Let Our Youth Go to Waste.'

  

  Dean Wareham
  • Today

• Eating more consciously now feels like a way of being. I actually think about how my food got to my plate.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Food
  • Eating
  • Plate

• The waves round the horn will toss us to and fro, to and fro like a rubber duckie in the bathtub of an angry God.

  

  Arthur M. Jolly
  • God
  • Angry
  • Waves