Nicolas Darvas Quotes

I believe in analysis and not forecasting.

Nicolas Darvas

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• The pressure suit helps if something goes wrong during launch or re-entry - astronauts have a way to parachute off the shuttle. The suits protect you from loss of pressure in case of emergency.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Pressure
  • Loss
  • Suits

• What people love about Santorum is he is who is he. He speaks his words. He loves God. He loves his country, and he loves gays.

  

  Foster Friess
  • People
  • God
  • Country

• I could not - and I still cannot - see a sustainable career as a filmmaker in which I focus fully on our gay stories.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Career
  • Focus
  • Gay

• A lot of people don't realize that hair is a big thing for a lot of people, not just African-American women. It's something to be aware of and to be cautious of.

  

  Zendaya
  • People
  • Women
  • American

• Stopping Vieques bombing range good; sooner is better.

  

  Ed Pastor
  • Good
  • Better
  • Bombing

• Technology has enormous potential to address educational needs more efficiently, help teachers improve their performance, and enrich and individualize student learning.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Help
  • Technology
  • Learning

• I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.

  

  Mae West
  • Like
  • Try
  • Three

• I want a guy who's going to be accepting of - one, my big 'ol, loud Mexican family - and also my career, because it's a lot. I don't want someone who's like... 'Oh, you don't have time for me'. Like, I want somebody who's sure of himself and gonna be like, 'Okay, you go do your thing, and when you come back, we're good.'

  

  Becky G
  • Time
  • Good
  • Family

• I hate having my photograph taken.

  

  E. L. James
  • Hate
  • Taken
  • Photograph

• I was definitely living fast. I was working, traveling a lot, playing. I didn't stop. It all became unbalanced.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Stop
  • Working
  • Living

• Everyone I know is fervently proud to be Welsh but you try not to be preachy about it. It's difficult at times. But when I go home to north Wales, or to somewhere I've never been in south Wales, I still feel at home because I'm in Wales. It's hard to explain.

  

  Gary Speed
  • Home
  • Know
  • Proud

• People refer to me as 'that 'Love Boat' man.'

  

  Irwin Thomas
  • People
  • Man
  • Refer

• If you need to tell your readers something … there are only two characters that you can put it convincingly into their dialogue. One is Hermione, the other is Dumbledore. In both cases you accept, it's plausible that they have, well Dumbledore knows pretty much everything anyway, but that Hermione has read it somewhere. So, she's handy.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • She
  • Pretty

• A key to McMaster's thinking is his 1997 book, 'Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Lies that Led to Vietnam.'

  

  Peter Bergen
  • Thinking
  • Book
  • Lies

• For most governors, we find the United States Senate or the United States Congress very frustrating at the slow pace in which they act. There doesn't seem to be a lot of discipline and organization to what they do.

  

  Dave Heineman
  • Discipline
  • Organization

• And I came close to losing a part of my foot on two occasions. I hope I'm consistently lucky and that the next time I develop a blister or step on something sharp, that I don't go as far as I did on those two times.

  

  Mary Tyler Moore
  • Time
  • Hope

• Writers, at least writers of fiction, are always full of anxiety and worry.

  

  Peter Carey
  • Worry
  • Anxiety

• If I'm not feeling super confident about an outfit or a little insecure - I'll probably accessorize my outfit with some jewelry.

  

  Amber Le Bon
  • Feeling
  • Jewelry

• I was certainly not a class clown; I confused and angered a lot of people with my sense of humor.

  

  Katherine Ryan
  • People
  • Confused

• Rejections are painful, but inevitable. They're every writer's rite of passage.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Painful
  • Passage
  • Rite

• If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Giving
  • Reason

• What I like to write about is stuff I know. I don't think I could write a novel. I don't think I have it in me to come up with those kinds of characters.

  

  Carol Burnett
  • Up

• Well, I'm still breathing.

  

  Leon Spinks

• I believe in analysis and not forecasting.

  

  Nicolas Darvas