Mike Vallely (Mike V) Quotes

When I got sponsored, it symbolized a major change and a major shift in skateboarding.

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• We believe in peace in the settlement of all disputes through peaceful means, in the abolition of war, and, more particularly, nuclear war.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Believe
  • War
  • Peace

• I've always shied away from online data storage. I don't even use my employers' network drives for anything sensitive. I want to control access myself.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Want
  • Control
  • Myself

• He was definitely known as the foremost man killer in the West; however there's controversy about virtually every killing that he was known to have been involved in.

  

  Keith Carradine

• I took an MA course in creative writing a couple of years back, and I was definitely in the bottom of the class.

  

  Allan Guthrie
  • Writing
  • Couple

• I miss video games where the jump-kick was the trickiest combo to master.

  

  Jay Asher
  • Jump

• So when the blue smoke of brittle leaves was in the air and the wind blew the wet laundry stiff on the line I decided to come back home.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Home
  • Air
  • Wind

• A father is neither an anchor to hold us back, nor a sail to take us there, but a guiding light whose love shows us the way.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Father
  • Light
  • Anchor

• We shall not bind ourselves by treaties. We shall not allow ourselves to be entangled by treaties. We reject all clauses on plunder and violence, but we shall welcome all clauses containing provisions for good-neighbourly relations and all economic agreements; we cannot reject these.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Violence
  • Economic
  • Relation

• There is more He-3 energy on the Moon than we have ever had in the form of fossil fuels on Earth. All we have to do is to go there and get it.

  

  Wilson Greatbatch
  • Earth
  • Energy
  • Moon

• This perpetual toggling between nothing being new, under the sun, and everything having very recently changed, absolutely, is perhaps the central driving tension of my work.

  

  William Gibson
  • Sun
  • Driving
  • Changed

• At the end of the table, the secretary was reading the decision in some case, but in such a mournful and monotonous voice, that the condemned man himself would have fallen asleep while listening to it. The judge, no doubt, would have been the first of all to do so, had he not entered into an engrossing conversation while it was going on.

  

  Nikolai Gogol
  • Decision
  • Judge
  • Conversation

• I guess that seeing yourself on a screen is something that you get used to. Let's face it, these days, there's really nothing that you do that doesn't get filmed.

  

  Lars Ulrich Metallica
  • Used
  • Screen
  • Filmed

• To develop working ideas efficiently, I try to fail as fast as I can.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Trying
  • Ideas
  • Failure

• If you are going to live by faith, then expect your faith to be tested. A faith that can't be tested can't be trusted.

  

  Warren W. Wiersbe
  • Christian
  • inspirational
  • Trusted

• Politicians can forgive almost anything in the way of abuse; they can forgive subversion, revolution, being contradicted, exposed as liars, even ridiculed, but they can never forgive being ignored.

  

  Auberon Waugh
  • Revolution
  • Abuse
  • Politicians

• Sometime in their lives, everybody wanted to go home.

  

  Bess Streeter Aldrich
  • Home
  • Wanted

• I don't travel for fun, because I travel so much with my work; when I'm not working, I mostly want to stay home.

  

  Michael Shannon
  • Home
  • Fun

• There have been so many majors that got away, starting at Riviera in '95, taking a three-shot lead into the final round of the PGA and not winning.

  

  Ernie Els
  • Winning
  • Lead
  • Majors

• When you are 20, 40 looks really old. When I was nearing 30, that seemed like a major milestone.

  

  Catherine Zeta-Jones
  • Looks
  • Majors
  • Milestone

• When I got sponsored, it symbolized a major change and a major shift in skateboarding.

  

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