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

• 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

• 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

• Even though David Pottruck has gone to this unbelievable career where he is a billionaire, there is always a new hurdle. He never sits there saying, 'I'm the best.'

  

  Brian Kilmeade
  • Career

• What's so touching is the way we fight the war right until the moment our business is taken care of and then we turn on a dime and we immediately start taking care of people. It's like a shock and aw shucks campaign.

  

  Dennis Miller
  • People
  • Business
  • War

• It takes a real soldier to stay in the music industry and live off the things that have been put before me and be able to survive all this time because it has not been easy.

  

  Chubby Checker
  • Time
  • Music
  • Live

• We’re really lucky to live in a planet that has so much music. We could be living in some bland planet that had no music, no movies, no books, just a bunch of people going around having jobs and things like that. To me that would be a really miserable place, you know, to me music is what makes this world a really fun place to be, you know?

  

  John Anthony Frusciante Ataxia
  • People
  • World
  • Music

• It's going to take education, adult supervision and technology to cope with the issues we're struggling with; all these are needed to ensure kids have a safe and educational online experience.

  

  Bob Herbold
  • Kids
  • Education
  • Technology

• The name Van Halen, the family legacy, is going to go on long after I'm gone.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Long
  • Family
  • Name

• 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