Chris Poland Quotes
The pressure on the engineering community at that time was to prove they could design buildings that wouldn't be damaged by earthquakes. We are still doing that.
Quotes to Explore
-
The gay community is very fickle. And I know because I'm part of it and I see it every day.
-
I'd like to scale back the television. I'm constantly told that I'm over-exposed, and I don't want to end up like Carol Vorderman.
-
Bodhisattva is enlightened in the Buddhist philosophy, religion, tradition. He's enlightened. It's fine - I don't really fight it - but many people use the term 'zen' and terms like 'nirvana,' 'enlightenment' in an almost superficial way. It's not that complicated.
-
When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.
-
If I'm trying to rebound after a bad hole, I just go back to tempo and process and rhythm, and I cling to my routine.
-
What used to drive me was the fact that I wanted to be better than everybody at something. One of my best qualities is that I used whatever other people found to be an adverse thing to be a positive thing for myself.
-
I do have a family, and I do have friends, and so-called friends, and acquaintances, and many other people I see only around Christmas time. Maybe they could vouch for me. Maybe they could testify to my existence and save a part of me that thinks I'm no better than a bag of potato chips.
-
You can be in the shape of your life, and then injury strikes. So you have to grab your opportunities.
-
Everybody eats a little differently, but the more where you are aware of what you put in your body and how it affects your performance, the better opportunities you have. And that's what I'm trying to do.
-
It's a huge step up from the European Indoor Championships to being world outdoor gold medallist.
-
I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
-
I have to be honest - I don't love guns.
-
There is no kind of music I don't listen to. Everything good is interesting. I am as happy with a Bach fugue as I am with a record by Thelonious Monk.
-
When I read for 'Girls,' I was like, 'The script says 'Handsome Carpenter,' so someone else is going to get the part. They'll have someone handsome, not me.'
-
It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians.
-
History shows us that in times of people feeling like they are in need of some sort of rebellion or protests, the artists rise because the poetry we create about pain and its relationship to culture in the world begins to soothe and heal people who are feeling confused or afraid.
-
I learned what looked good on my petite frame, and to this day, I'm a great bargain shopper.
-
The name 'Republican' in some ways has been hijacked by obstructionists.
-
I'm trying to put plus-size on the map. We can be fashion-forward.
-
For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I have won every race I've been in.
-
My Dublin wasn't the Dublin of sing-songs, traditional music, sense of history and place and community.
-
Parenting changes your life, it changes how you hear yourself in relationship to others - which is part of the reason that a bunch of people in the rock community are sick of the goodwill and positive energy and love between these 45-year-old musicians who they preferred when they were 25 and taking stabs at each other.
-
People's live are expressed in little details....The soap in the bathroom, the flowers in the garden, the books on the bedside table are all strong symbols of a life in progress. You look at these details and a world unfolds - here are their books, the paintings they cherish, the music that soothes their souls.
-
The pressure on the engineering community at that time was to prove they could design buildings that wouldn't be damaged by earthquakes. We are still doing that.
