Rick Tumlinson Quotes

Your birthday happens each year on exactly the same day. It is a solid thing, a dependable thing, a measure of your life broken down into 365 subunits. For a Leaper, it is a bit different. For us, the basic assumption is shattered from the beginning.

Rick Tumlinson

• Happens
• Assumption
• Dependable

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• You find out your mistakes from an audience that pays admission.

  

  Edgar Bergen
  • Audience
  • Find
  • Mistakes

• And then the conditions of safety - or lack of safety - for teachers in public schools, and the disparity between public schools and private schools is shameful.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • Safety
  • Then
  • Public Schools

• People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • People
  • Soul
  • Dream

• I have fruit trees. Cows for fresh milk, yoghurt. My own wheat. I'm basically self-sufficient.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Trees
  • Fruit
  • Milk

• I've realized I can't waste any moment being unhappy.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Moment
  • Unhappy
  • Waste

• I not only wanted to showcase lyrical skills but also continue to drop knowledge on the hiphop community. I'm looking to elevate through my music, and through my music I educate.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Music
  • Knowledge
  • Community

• It's like a pylon.

  

  Karl Pilkington

• Here's what I see: a complacency among the generation of young women whose entire lives have been lived after Roe v. Wade was decided.

  

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz
  • Women
  • Complacency

• I've been a Yankees fan for a long time. When I was a kid in the mid-'70s, the Yankees were really great. They had Reggie Jackson in '77. I was 8 years old at the time. He hit three home runs to win the World Series in game six against the Dodgers, and I was just hooked.

  

  James Gray
  • Time
  • World
  • Great

• One thing that flying in space does for you is it gives you a change in perspective. We all have to live in the same place.

  

  Peggy Whitson
  • Live
  • Space
  • Perspective

• Wrestling is ballet with violence.

  

  Jesse Ventura
  • Violence
  • Wrestling
  • Ballet

• My sons are coming out with music. Square Off, they're called.

  

  Douglas Davis
  • Music

• The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it's a true story.

  

  Joel Coen
  • Different
  • True
  • Architecture

• I have to see a definitive cut of the film before I even start thinking about the music, I tell the director what my feelings are and what I would like to do. He accepts what I say or discusses it or destroys it. Eventually, we have to find a compromise.

  

  Ennio Morricone
  • Music
  • Thinking

• I love to make songs out of some of those shadows - you know, some of the things you lie awake thinking about, social anxieties and romantic insecurities and all that stuff.

  

  Matt Berninger The National
  • Thinking
  • Romantic

• Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?'Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land;Man got to tell himself he understand.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • Why
  • Sleep
  • Wonder

• For me, there is no hope without faith. Faith is a higher good. Faith in our divinity.

  

  Alyssa Milano
  • Good
  • Hope
  • Faith

• There's nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Good
  • Wrong
  • Depends

• The Secretary General, in a very real sense, is the servant of the General Assembly. Diminish his authority and you diminish the authority of the only body where all nations, regardless of power, are equal and sovereign. Until all the powerful are just, the weak will be secure only in the strength of this Assembly.

  

  John F. Kennedy
  • Real
  • Power
  • Powerful

• My favorite umpire is a dead one.

  

  Johnny Evers
  • Favorite
  • Umpires

• Kindness it is that brings forth kindness always.

  

  Sophocles
  • Always
  • Kindness
  • Brings

• Nothing is inevitable until it happens.

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
  • Nothing
  • Happens
  • Inevitable

• The assumption should be that we will not appear in print or the blogosphere. Having dinner should not be fodder for Facebook. And this is just as true for 'public personalities' as it is for the average person. After all, even people in the public eye have a right to a private life.

  

  Ezekiel Emanuel
  • Right
  • Assumption
  • Private Life

• Your birthday happens each year on exactly the same day. It is a solid thing, a dependable thing, a measure of your life broken down into 365 subunits. For a Leaper, it is a bit different. For us, the basic assumption is shattered from the beginning.

  

  Rick Tumlinson
  • Happens
  • Assumption
  • Dependable