Bill Courtney Quotes

A true legacy is established over a lifetime and relates to what a human being does for others, not for himself.

Bill Courtney

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• I think the comic that's gotten me the most feedback is actually the one about the stoplights. Noticing when the stoplights are in sync, or calculating the length of your strides between floor tiles – normal people notice that kind of stuff, but a certain kind of person will do some calculations.

  

  Randall Munroe
  • People
  • Comic
  • Notice

• I have always believed that astrophysics should be the extrapolation of laboratory physics, that we must begin from the present universe and work our way backward to progressively more remote and uncertain epochs.

  

  Hannes Alfven
  • Work
  • Universe
  • Present

• I love anything that makes you feel empowered. I'm 'bout that - you can't be scared.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Feel
  • Scared
  • Empowered

• I'm an entrepreneur. I'm married to an entrepreneur. So I haven't just sipped the entrepreneurship cool-aid, I bleed this stuff.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Cool
  • Married
  • Entrepreneur

• I believe in sex on a first date. Otherwise, how do you know if a second date is worth the effort?

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Believe
  • Know
  • Effort

• Those of us lucky enough to fall in love with Asia know that it's an affair that's as long as it is resonant.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Know
  • Enough
  • Lucky

• Arsene Wenger asked me to have a trial with Arsenal when I was 17. I turned it down. Zlatan doesn't do auditions.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Me
  • Down
  • Trial

• The dangers of not thinking clearly are much greater now than ever before. It's not that there's something new in our way of thinking - it's that credulous and confused thinking can be much more lethal in ways it was never before.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Thinking
  • Never
  • Confused

• Man is a tool-making animal.

  

  Benjamin Franklin
  • Animal

• I take yoga classes, do a mile run, and of course take part in some kind of water sport.

  

  Karen Civil
  • Water
  • Yoga

• In junior high, I was still writing poems and stories. In college, I was a journalism major. When I got out of college, I went to work for an educational publisher, so I was still writing, developing curriculums.

  

  Doreen Cronin
  • Work
  • Writing
  • High

• I am very proud of being Jewish.

  

  Neil Sedaka
  • Proud

• No matter how exhausted I am after a show, I always take my makeup off. Even if it's just with a remover wipe.

  

  Kelsea Ballerini
  • Makeup

• Our next black president, I think, can be more like Muhammad Ali.

  

  Ato Essandoh
  • Black

• Disco is just jitterbug.

  

  Fred Astaire

• Women exist in my imagination. So they are necessarily a type of abstraction. Many women criticise me for this vision, but I explain to them it's to be expected, because I am a man.

  

  Bruno Dumont
  • Women
  • Imagination
  • Vision

• I don't belong to any clubs, and I dislike club mentality of any kind, even feminism - although I do relate to the purpose and point of feminism. More in the work of older feminists, really, like Germaine Greer.

  

  Jane Campion
  • Work
  • Purpose

• If all you were left believing was what you were seeing, it'd be nothing but desperate. To have hope, you're going to have to imagine that there's something behind the curtain.

  

  Jakob Dylan
  • Hope

• People spend money on sports, and I just don't do golf, I hate it. But I love sailing and the technology aspect.

  

  James H. Clark
  • People
  • Money
  • Hate

• Because of the many problems hogs create, we want to see the sportsmen in Alabama take as many hogs as they possibly can, whenever they can. I know we have some hunters who really enjoy hunting hogs and who have some well-trained dogs that can find, chase, bay, catch and hold hogs. But we really want to see the number of hogs statewide reduced drastically because they do so much destruction to the habitat.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Problems
  • Habit
  • Hunting

• Any kid will run any errand for you, if you ask at bedtime.

  

  Red Skelton
  • Kid
  • Bedtime
  • Errand

• None of us suddenly becomes something overnight. The preparations have been in the making for lifetime.

  

  Gail Godwin
  • Something
  • Lifetime
  • U.S.

• I feel very lucky to have grown up having interaction with adults who were making change but who were far from perfect beings. That feeling of not being paralyzed by your incredible inadequacy as a human being, which I feel every day, is a part of the legacy that I've gotten from so many of the adult elders.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • Up
  • Feeling
  • Perfect

• A true legacy is established over a lifetime and relates to what a human being does for others, not for himself.

  

  Bill Courtney
  • Humans
  • Legacy
  • Lifetime