Charles Ferguson Quotes

When the U.S. government is serious about doing something that's complicated and difficult, it can do it.

Charles Ferguson

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• I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Learned
  • Dangerous
  • Drive

• I'm always happy when I hear about people selling records or selling books or selling movies. It makes me proud of them.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • People
  • Happy
  • Proud

• You don't have to paint your walls lime green just to try to have your home feel decorated. If you're a classic dresser or preppy dresser or a modern dresser, you wear a lot of black - whatever it is - your home should reflect that as well.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Home
  • Black
  • Green

• I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • War
  • Look
  • Month

• If you're going to nap, make sure you have a proper chunk of time blocked out. I'm not one of these guys that does the 15-20 minute nap. I don't play those games. I'm, like, an hour minimum. I'm not gonna lay down unless I know I have at least an hour.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Time
  • Know
  • Down

• I want to be treated like a musician.

  

  Halsey
  • Want
  • Like
  • Musician

• I fell in love with 'Star Trek' after J. J. Abrams's movie. I'm so into that.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Love
  • Movie
  • Star

• Prithee don’t screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.

  

  Colley Cibber
  • Good

• ...ingratitude is more common than you might think.

  

  Cormac McCarthy

• Let us assume that the ideal were reached; let us imagine a state of international life in which the danger of war no longer exists. Then no one would dare to demand a penny for obviously completely superfluous armaments.

  

  Ludwig Quidde
  • Life
  • War

• People accuse me of being Methody, but I'm not at all. The one thing I don't want people to see is me. I don't want them to be able to recognize my faults and failures and qualities, and I won't use those things to spark off emotions or to illustrate.

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas
  • People

• I guess you can look at Fleetwood Mac as the 'Pirates Of The Caribbean' movies and my solo career as indie films.

  

  Lindsey Buckingham
  • Career

• I get an awful lot of people coming up and saying they went to school with me. There must have been 80,000 pupils at that school!

  

  James Nesbitt
  • People
  • Up
  • School

• The trick is after a workout you're supposed to have gummy bears or some candy to get your veins to stick out. Of course, it's all about protein, too, but right before you're filming a shirtless scene, you have a little bit of sugar to pop the veins.

  

  Colton Haynes
  • Workout
  • Candy

• All through my twenties, I spent more time worrying what I didn't have than thinking about what I did have. I wished that I was taller, had longer legs, slimmer hips, a smaller bottom, even straighter hair.

  

  Shakira
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Hair

• I get the gold-digger part six times weekly. I can play those women into the ground, but I don't want someone telling me that's all I can do.

  

  Jennifer Coolidge
  • Women
  • Gold

• I believe the most intricate plot won't matter much to readers if they don't care about the characters, especially in a series. So I try to focus hard on making each character, whether villain or hero, have an interesting flaw that readers can relate to.

  

  Jeff Abbott
  • Believe
  • Character
  • Interesting

• I feel like there's value in experience.

  

  Kevin Harvick
  • Experience
  • Value

• The King beneath the mountains, The King of carven stone, The lord of silver fountains Shall come into his own! His crown shall be upholden, His harp shall be restrung, His halls shall echo golden To songs of yore re-sung. The woods shall wave on mountains. And grass beneath the sun; His wealth shall flow in fountains And the rivers golden run. The streams shall run in gladness, The lakes shall shine and burn, And sorrow fail and sadness At the Mountain-king’s return!

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • King
  • Songs
  • Sadness

• Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Man
  • Determination
  • Quiet

• There is always an element of play in form, however 'serious' the expression.

  

  Marilyn Hacker
  • Serious

• I did B com but realised that it was not my cup of tea. I was always fascinated by animation, and after I completed my course, I wanted to go abroad and pursue it. I used to sketch a lot and was rather serious about it. But all this was until I joined films.

  

  Emraan Hashmi
  • Serious
  • Tea

• The one thing I do find about serious reviews is that usually they tend to have a point, and that's what I find hurt so much about discerning critics. If the reviews hurt they're probably right on some level.

  

  Sean Lennon
  • Serious
  • Hurt
  • Critics

• When the U.S. government is serious about doing something that's complicated and difficult, it can do it.

  

  Charles Ferguson
  • Serious
  • Complicated
  • To Do