Charles Garfield Quotes

It takes no genius to observe that a one-man band never gets very big

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• It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Law
  • Me
  • Seems

• There's always the ongoing actor frustration of finding the great role to do next. I don't go to work a lot. I wait as long as I can until the money runs out or a great part comes along.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Work
  • Great
  • Long

• The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • People
  • High
  • Day

• I guess I'd be put in the ID politics camp. But there is really nothing in the world-view of, say, Bernie Sanders I actually disagree with. I'd like a guaranteed income, single-payer health care, a stronger safety net, etc. The problem is the temptation to paper over historically fraught issues to achieve that is tempting.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • World
  • Health
  • Single

• PETA's campaign should be included in school curricula. If we can open children's hearts and minds to animals' needs, teach them to treat a dog or a chicken as if they feel fear and love and pain - as they do - then they will grow up to understand that we are all worthy of respect.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Up
  • Children
  • School

• The extras are a nice bonus feature, but the main incentive is the musical experience.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Experience
  • Nice
  • Bonus

• I'm not an ardent feminist - well, maybe I am an ardent feminist. I just roll my eyes at the way women are constantly used and how sensitive men are about photographs of themselves.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Men
  • Women
  • Eyes

• It was all men, and there I was prancing around in gowns that barely got past the censors.

  

  Karen Morley
  • Men
  • Past
  • Got

• They forbade me from flying, despite all my protests and arguments. After being once in space, I was desperately keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Me
  • Space
  • Flying

• I am attracted to intelligence, a witty sense of humor, an adventurous outlook on life and spiritual awareness about one's self and the world.

  

  Tanit Phoenix
  • Life
  • World
  • Spiritual

• If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Why
  • Sports
  • Matter

• Our epoch is a time of tragic collision between matter and spirit and of the downfall of the purely material world view.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Time
  • World
  • View

• Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Life
  • Slavery
  • Shadows

• You’ve got to get the fundamentals down because otherwise the fancy stuff isn’t going to work.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Work

• Peace is far more preferable to war.… I believe that peace is the only path to true security. … And there is no question that the only path to peace is through negotiations.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Believe
  • War
  • True

• If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture...In a house, we all feel of the proper proportions. Everything is subordinated to us, fashioned for our use and our pleasure.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Nature
  • Pleasure
  • Mankind

• Shelley was kicked out of Oxford-I think the story is unauthenticated, but who cares-because he painted a sign on the end wall of a dead-end alley: THIS WAY TO HEAVEN. I feel that every now and then his sign needs repainting.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Heaven
  • Wall

• I love people and people watching. I love music. I am intrigued by musicians more than I am actors. I have a bigger respect for them.

  

  Maia Mitchell
  • People
  • Music
  • Respect

• I began to have an idea of my life, not as slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know.

  

  Marion Milner
  • Life
  • Purpose
  • Growth

• I make a lot of pots in a year's time and some of them are good and some of them are mediocre and some of them are bad. If they're really bad and I'd be ashamed of them, I throw them out, but if they're mediocre and they'll serve the purpose for which they're designed, that is, a mixing bowl or a soup bowl or a plate or whatever, I sell them. And this income from the sale of these pots permits me to go on and make other pots. It's even more important now that I've quit teaching, because I do not have a teacher's salary to fall back on.

  

  Warren MacKenzie
  • Important
  • Fall
  • Purpose

• Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Memories

• I think 'Lost in Space' certainly shifted from being an ensemble adventure series about a family facing the unknown alien environment to this trio of comedians - Dr. Smith, the Robot, and Will Robinson being the straight guy. It definitely changed its tone over the three seasons and 84 episodes we did.

  

  Bill Mumy
  • Family
  • Guy
  • Lost

• Mike Oxley has provided steady, dedicated leadership to House Republicans, and I am grateful for his service.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • House
  • Service
  • Leadership

• It takes no genius to observe that a one-man band never gets very big

  

  Charles Garfield
  • Men
  • Band
  • Genius