William Poundstone Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.
-
What Washington needs is adult supervision.
-
The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been suggested would create more problems than they would solve.
-
I really like my doctors. Some of them I love. I trust them.
-
I feel very strongly that 'curves' are natural, womanly and real.
-
I pick and choose my battles, but I overthink everything because I have to think about everything.
-
Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.
-
I like my hands. They do most of the talking.
-
I don't know why people have divided the whole world into two groups, west and east. Education is neither eastern nor western. Education is education and it's the right of every human being.
-
I can express all my views on the slavery question by quotations from Henry Clay.
-
Without the Fender bass, there'd be no rock n' roll or no Motown. The electric guitar had been waiting 'round since 1939 for a nice partner to come along. It became an electric rhythm section, and that changed everything.
-
A diary is more or less the work of a man of clay whose hands are clumsy and in whose eyes there is no light.
-
I sent people to the penitentiary as fast as I could, never thinking about whether they deserved it.
-
My sisters are very academically inclined so whenever they would fix me up, it would always be from someone in their world, people they would find attractive. When they came to the door in suits, it was over.
-
I'm a citizen of the world.
-
Let's face it, first-time assistant coaches normally don't walk into jobs with two perennial All-Stars on a team that just got bounced in the Western finals. Normally, they get a job in the middle of a year, playing for lottery balls.
-
I've been doing a lot of music for films and television for quite a few years.
-
I am a big Vespa enthusiast, and I enjoy the state park aspect of California. It's awfully nice to ride my little scooter through the mountains and then wind up at the ocean.
-
In my books I try to tell a good story, not give messages.
-
I will talk and act, not on my knees, but with prudence.
-
When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter, And when he cried the little children died in the streets.
-
I do like putting scenario and story first, and I actually like masking whatever I want to say in the guise of genre.
-
Our bodies are given life from the midst of nothingness. Existing where there is nothing is the meaning of the phrase, "Form is emptiness." That all things are provided for by nothingness is the meaning of the phrase, "Emptiness is form." One should not think that these are two seperate things.
-
Expectation is a statistical fiction, like having 2.5 children.
