Arthur Wimperis Quotes

I don't know what the country's coming to. Everyone trying to be better than their betters--mink coats and no manners. No wonder Germany's arming.

Arthur Wimperis

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• In tennis, because of the way it's scored, I don't think that scoring one point out of luck is ever decisive in winning. But, of course, it depends on the moment.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Winning
  • Moment
  • Luck

• We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • Think
  • Cancer
  • Need

• I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.

  

  Patrick Wang
  • Time
  • Find
  • Strange

• American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Up
  • Business
  • American

• The kind of thing I'm good at is knowing every politician in the state and remembering where he itches. And I know where to scratch him.

  

  Earl Long
  • Good
  • Know
  • Kind

• There's not one major greatest influence on my career. It would be film and great artists and great imagineers - Jim Henson, Walt Disney, Charlie Chaplin, people who understand the joy of the imagination.

  

  Zac Posen
  • People
  • Great
  • Career

• I have got nothing against family companies, but there must be real equity, that is all I say. It cannot be based on influence or political friendships. It has to be based on real equity backing their dreams.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Real
  • Family
  • Political

• LL Cool J is a huge presence. He is a music mogul. He brings that experience and that life into the room.

  

  Barrett Foa
  • Life
  • Music
  • Experience

• I love my country so much.

  

  Barry Lam
  • Country
  • Love
  • Much

• Once I came to acting, it was almost a thing where there weren't enough hours in the day to work on stuff because I was so passionate about it.

  

  Aaron Tveit
  • Work
  • Day
  • Acting

• If you hold back in hurdles, you are going to fall over.

  

  Sally Pearson
  • You
  • Fall
  • Back

• If you love living, you try to take care of the equipment.

  

  Sally Rand
  • Love
  • Care
  • Try

• On how he met Jerry Cantrell, quoted in Layne Staley Interviewed by Don Kaye in 1996.

  

  Layne Staley

• If the baby is sick, you won't find me showing up to play my gigs. If I have a contract, there is going to be a clause in that contract saying that if the baby is sick I will not appear.

  

  Phoebe Snow
  • Up
  • Baby
  • Sick

• Whenever I see a Frans Hals, I feel the desire to paint; but when I see a Rembrandt, I want to give it up.

  

  Max Liebermann
  • Up
  • Desire

• We don't know who Donald Trump is.

  

  Bill Flores
  • Trump

• I look after my skin quite a lot because in this job, it can get stressful. Pimples come out! I cleanse and moisturize, sometimes do face masks. I've also got a Clarisonic, which is good.

  

  Jess Glynne
  • Good
  • Job

• My father was into fame and leaving his mark. He was a city planner, sort of a genius in that world, the Robert Moses of Philadelphia. He was on the cover of 'Time' once, and I remember going to his office and seeing, like, two hundred copies, which he would hand out to people.

  

  Kevin Bacon
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• The fact that people have religious experiences is interesting from the psychological point of view, but it does not in any way imply that there is such a thing as religious knowledge...Unless he can formulate this 'knowledge' in propositions that are empirically verifiable, we may be sure that he is deceiving himself.

  

  Sir Alfred Jules "Freddie" Ayer
  • People
  • May
  • Interesting

• It's a tremendous challenge now: to make sure the green economy is big enough that there is enough labor demand that people who've been thrown out of work can be re-employed AND people who are new to the workforce can be employed. And that is going to be very difficult.

  

  Van Jones
  • People
  • Work
  • Challenge

• The compass of accurate knowledge directs the shortest, safest, cheapest course to any destination.

  

  Claude C. Hopkins
  • Knowledge
  • Destination
  • Compass

• I no longer get into stupid thought wormholes about identity and stuff. At one time, I did have some impostor syndrome about acting, but then I remembered I've been doing this since I was little, actually.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Time
  • Thought
  • Stupid

• For me to get a lead role in a real movie is something to jump at. It's not like I get to do that all of the time.

  

  Adam Scott
  • Time
  • Real
  • Movie

• I don't know what the country's coming to. Everyone trying to be better than their betters--mink coats and no manners. No wonder Germany's arming.

  

  Arthur Wimperis
  • World
  • Trying
  • War