William Wrigley, Jr. Quotes

An island Utopia in a modern, busy, everyday world. A land where there are neither rich nor poor. A heaven on earth - without a fence around it.

William Wrigley, Jr.

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• I was passionate about soccer. I still am. Odd, though - playing soccer always made me much more anxious than playing tennis. On soccer days, I'd be out of bed by 6 in the morning, all nervous. But I was always calm when it was time for a tennis match. I still don't know why.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Time
  • Why
  • Morning

• I'd call my music rock but with pop hooks.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Music
  • Rock
  • Call

• I do not have any pets. We travel too much.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Travel
  • Too Much
  • Pets

• I am a musician who also does love to explore the world in many ways, so my approaching with my songs, videos, and haikus is: 'Make It Real.'

  

  Flula Borg
  • World
  • Real
  • Explore

• I'm 100 percent sure I'm becoming a really good helicopter pilot.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Good
  • Percent
  • Pilot

• I used to go with my parents and loved it, I was in school plays, and I started reading plays before I started reading novels. I'll defend it to the hilt. When theatre is good it is fabulous.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • Good
  • School
  • Parents

• Art... is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Life
  • Women
  • Art

• Screw you, I didn't like your taste anyway, I chose you,That's all gone to waste, It's Saturday, I'll go out and find another you.

  

  Robbie Williams Take That
  • Saturday

• '…Just you bloody hypocrites with your four wives and your ten thousand houris in heaven?…'

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Heaven

• Politics, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

  

  Ambrose Bierce

• All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority. The universal in the novel-and isn't that what we're all clamoring for these days?-is reached only through the depiction of the specific man in a specific circumstance.

  

  Ralph Ellison

• You couldn't pay me enough to be a law enforcement officer. Their job is a tough job. You have to solve people's problems, you have to baby-sit people, you have to always be doing this cat-and-mouse game with the bad guys. My respect for them is immense.

  

  Christopher Meloni
  • People
  • Job
  • Bad

• Time passes faster and faster, but with every project I always want to find the next challenge and the next challenge is just as exciting as the previous one.

  

  Alexander Wang
  • Time
  • Challenge

• I want to talk about privacy, the quality of the information you receive, whether it's neutral or commercial or pointed, bringing consciousness to the lack of neutrality in the algorithms.

  

  Beeban Kidron
  • Quality

• We're living in hard times.

  

  Antonio Banderas

• All of us want to know that we are doing great things, that we are touching a lot of people, and that what we are doing is something bigger than ourselves.

  

  Alan Mulally
  • People
  • Great

• After my 10-match ban in 2013 for biting Branislav Ivanovic, I had questioned the double standards and how the fact that no one actually gets hurt is never taken into consideration.

  

  Luis Suarez
  • Taken
  • Hurt

• I had a harsh lesson in 1996, when I lost four times to Andres Gomez on clay.

  

  John McEnroe
  • Lost

• I admired anyone who could unsettle people.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • People
  • Anyone
  • Admired

• I felt like God was giving me a chance to assist in a miracle. There is something so relieving about life taking over you like that. You're playing a part in a much bigger show. And that's what life is. It's the greatest show on earth.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Life
  • God
  • Earth

• By the eighteenth book, one has a sense of having bricked oneself into a niche, a roosting place for other people's pigeons. I wouldn't recommend it.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • People
  • Book
  • Pigeons

• I carry in my datebook a piece of paper that my mother copied out for me, from the 1840 Census. Hardy Callaway Culver of Hancock County, Georgia, had 42 slaves, 31 "employed in agriculture." Culver was my great-great-great grandfather. I carry this piece of paper with me every day because I don't want to forget. I don't know what to do with the information, but I don't want to forget it.

  

  Laura Lippman
  • Grandfather
  • Piece of Paper
  • Culver

• Yeah, I like clothes, but I hardly ever go shopping. Hardly ever!

  

  Kate Moss
  • Clothes
  • Shopping
  • Go

• An island Utopia in a modern, busy, everyday world. A land where there are neither rich nor poor. A heaven on earth - without a fence around it.

  

  William Wrigley, Jr.
  • Heaven
  • Everyday
  • Modern