Bill Courtney Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm ambidextrous when I eat. But playing tennis right-handed - I can't do it. I'm clueless.
-
While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.
-
I was working at the NSA. I don't know, I was just bored. I just knew that's not what I was supposed to be doing with my life.
-
I loved politics and, I confess, I enjoyed politicians immensely.
-
The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I am not a Virginian but an American.
-
I can be not showered and dressed like a slob, but my lip gloss will be on!
-
Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships.
-
The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.
-
...The reality is otherwise. Vicente Fox & friends are far closer than all but a few realize to making inevitable a North American Union where American sovereignty is dissipated and the republic is no more.
-
Although the capacity to become schizophrenic may well be within all of us, there is no question that certain persons have distinctive genes predisposing them to the condition.
-
The Grape that can with Logic absolute The Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute: The sovereign Alchemist that in a trice Life's leaden metal into Gold transmute:
-
We underestimate the distance between ourselves and others. Not just inferential distance, but distances of temperament and ability, distances of situation and resource, distances of unspoken knowledge and unnoticed skills and luck, distances of interior landscape.
-
Through rationality we shall become awesome, and invent and test systematic methods for making people awesome, and plot to optimize everything in sight, and the more fun we have the more people will want to join us.
-
The gospel is a reasonable system, and it appeals to men's understanding; it is a matter for thought and consideration, and it appeals to the conscience and reflecting powers.
-
I'm nuts, I'm rich, and boy, do I love a fight!
-
When you're around enormously successful people you realise their success isn't an accident - it's about work.
-
Obviously all of us have thought about Vietnam, particularly in my generation in Australia that were part of conscription and fought there. Our friends came back, forever changed. So there were a lot of questions.
-
A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.
-
I don't have to go to the weight room. I don't have to go work out if I don't want to.
-
When my father returned home on the twenty-first of August 1983, he had a speech prepared. Filipinos never got to hear it, because he was murdered right on the tarmac.
-
My parents not only did it for a living, but they were really good at it.
-
It's important for everyone - working moms especially - to find moments to ground themselves and connect with their own breath.
-
In politics one should not expect big jumps. Everything takes time.
-
Many men beg for a job but have no clue what hard work really means.
