Charles S. Maier Quotes

No one can master the past; one can only interrogate it.

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• I don't really write jokes down. I tend to have a premise that I work out and test on stage.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Work
  • Down
  • Test

• I do this thing at every party: I go to a party, I stand around for, like, 45 minutes, and then I turn to my wife and say, 'I think we should go home.' And then we leave, and then I wake up the next morning and say to my wife, 'We don't go out anymore.' It's a great trick.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Up
  • Great
  • Home

• Lipgloss is my calling!

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Calling

• I love the fact that everyone's trying to be good-looking in L.A. - then I turn up and I get work.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Good
  • Work
  • Fact

• I don't know if I have a brand. I just see myself as an athlete and a competitor, someone who just works really hard at trying to get better at golf. I guess I'm kind of the feel-good story who's seen every level of professional golf.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Myself

• We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Science
  • Technology
  • Depend

• 'Holy Smoke' is very brave because I don't think it's easy to watch.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Think
  • Easy
  • Brave

• I've always said the rubber duck is a yellow catalyst.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
  • Said
  • Yellow
  • Duck

• I think of feminism as more of a political ideology.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Think
  • Political
  • Feminism

• It's very important, at least for me and for Cynthia, to get outside input.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Important
  • Very
  • Outside

• It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue - but I would argue it nevertheless - that the peculiar combination of joy and sadness in bell music - both of clock chimes, and of change-ringing - is very typical of England. It is of a piece with the irony in which English people habitually address one another.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • People
  • Music
  • Joy

• Strength of will is the test of a young man's possibilities. Can he will strong enough and hold whatever he undertakes with an iron grip?

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Man
  • Strong
  • Strength

• Intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

• Because of the influence of the cinema, most reports or stories of violence are so pictorial that they lack content or meaning. The camera brings them to our eyes, but does not settle them in our minds, nor in time.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • Time
  • Eyes
  • Violence

• It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all.

  

  Andrei Tarkovsky
  • Art
  • Humanity

• The best employees are those who bring real energy and initiative to the job. I like to know whether you're the kind of person who can set priorities, take initiative, and drive results right from the beginning.

  

  Marillyn Hewson
  • Real
  • Job
  • Energy

• For Marvel, we've never looked at any of our characters in terms of gender, race, or religion. It truly is about, who is the best character for the story? If that character happens to be a woman, fantastic.

  

  Jeph Loeb
  • Character

• My favorite books are actually very complicated - 'One Hundred Years of Solitude', 'Ulysses'.

  

  James Patterson
  • Solitude

• I have a wife who's a great mom.

  

  Mark V. Hurd
  • Great
  • Wife
  • Mom

• People who had, in the past, suffered from technophobia suffered even more. Others took other positions. Things were not so bad. Things could be worse. Worse things could be imagined. Worse things had been endured and triumphed over, in the past. This was not the worst. The worst was yet to come.

  

  Donald Barthelme
  • People
  • Bad
  • Past

• When we tend to the areas of life that are important to us, when we make those things a priority, that's when we will flourish in those areas.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Life
  • Important
  • Will

• If a guy works, and he has children, it's good, and he doesn't feel the same guilt about not being there for the children as a woman would. With a woman, there's that pull: 'Oh, I should be home,' when she's at work, and 'Oh, I should be at work,' when she's at home.

  

  Melanie Mayron
  • Good
  • Work
  • Children

• In England, if you commit a crime, the police don’t have a gun and you don’t have a gun. If you commit a crime, the police will say “Stop, or I’ll say stop again.

  

  Robin Williams
  • Police
  • Gun
  • Crime

• No one can master the past; one can only interrogate it.

  

  Charles S. Maier
  • Past
  • Identity
  • Masters