Bill Geist Quotes

There is a lovely warmness about feelings of nostalgia as though in one's head one is putting on a pair of comfy old slippers and curling up in front of a fire.

Bill Geist

• Fire
• Nostalgia
• Slippers
• Warmness

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• I like to see a good scientific bout by men who know the use of their hands but would rather walk twenty miles than see animals in strife.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Good
  • Men
  • Walk

• What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Life
  • May
  • Reality

• The bad boy: always more fun.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Bad
  • Fun
  • Boy

• If I had a daughter, and some guy came home with her, I'd be on him like a hawk. When I meet people's parents, I know my place. It's not that hard.

  

  Zac Efron
  • People
  • Home
  • Guy

• As long as I can contribute, I'll continue working.

  

  Yusuf Hamied
  • Long
  • Working
  • I Can

• I would like to do a romantic comedy, but not a romantic comedy that is cheesy. I want to do an old romantic comedy like 'Roman Holiday' or 'My Fair Lady.'

  

  Sami Gayle
  • Want
  • Comedy
  • Romantic

• I can understand the allure of a venerable Big Six imprint, of a shot at the New York Times list, of a publisher-sponsored book tour, of seeing your hardbacks in bookstores and your paperbacks in supermarkets.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Book
  • New
  • New York

• I feel whatever an actor does on screen is something the actor 'does,' and what the director can do is to tell, talk or instruct. So, all the credit for an actor's performance goes to the actor alone.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Alone
  • Performance
  • Credit

• I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.

  

  Harriet Tubman
  • Mind
  • Death
  • Liberty

• As neither reason requires nor religion permits the contrary, every man living in or out of a state of civil society has a right peaceably and quietly to worship God according to the dictates of his conscience.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • God
  • Society

• That day of wrath, that dreadful day,When heaven and earth shall pass away,What power shall be the sinner's stay?How shall he meet that dreadful day?

  

  Walter Scott
  • Power
  • Earth
  • Heaven

• Words are the only bullets in truth’s bandolier. And poets are the snipers.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Truth
  • Words

• Logos and logic, crystal hypothesis, Incipit and a form to speak the word And every latent double in the word, Beau linguist.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Logic

• Do you know what Margaret Thatcher did in her first Budget? Introduced VAT on yachts! It somewhat ruined my retirement.

  

  Edward Heath
  • Retirement

• There he lieth, tossing in the guilt of his lewdness, the primal lecher, neglectful of his duties to a fair wife but all too ready to plunge his sizzling steel into the slaking black mud of a base Indian.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Black
  • Wife

• It gets worse and worse, it reinforces this idea of women as sexual objects, right; there's this idea of women as playthings for their amusement... that we are not meant to be treated with respect.

  

  Anita Sarkeesian
  • Women
  • Respect

• As an artist, I don't care about where we are in the charts and all that. The important thing to me is to connect with a creative project.

  

  Lauren Jauregui Fifth Harmony
  • Important

• My passion for books has changed my life.

  

  Marley Dias
  • Life
  • Passion

• We've always wanted to control the video player for our videos. We really want to evolve how comments on videos work.

  

  Freddie Wong
  • Work
  • Control
  • Player

• You miss me but don't put effort into seeing me.

  

  J Dilla
  • Effort
  • See
  • Miss

• Lice, rats, barbed wire, fleas, shells, bombs, underground caves, corpses, blood, liquor, mice, cats, gas, artillery, filth, bullets, mortars, fire, steel: that is what war is! It is all the work of the Devil!

  

  Otto Dix
  • Work
  • War
  • Fire

• I never considered acting while growing up. I just knew I didn't want to go into the saloon business: I wanted to get away from Kenosha. And once I left, never, ever did it cross my mind to go back. I went to college and thought I'd study law.

  

  Don Ameche
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Business

• There is a lovely warmness about feelings of nostalgia as though in one's head one is putting on a pair of comfy old slippers and curling up in front of a fire.

  

  Bill Geist
  • Fire
  • Nostalgia
  • Slippers