Bill Haywood Quotes

Eight hours of work, eight hours of play, eight hours of sleep - eight hours a day!

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• I don't think I've ever sent a text to Gordon Brown because I'm confident that he would absolutely have no idea how to receive it. He barely managed to master WordPerfect 4.1.

  

  Ed Balls
  • Think
  • Idea
  • Text

• The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities.

  

  Adam Ferguson
  • Work
  • Attention
  • Perfect

• Somebody gets to be smart and somebody gets to be dumb. If we win, it'll be because of the president. And if we lose, it'll be because of me.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Smart
  • Win
  • President

• Europe can be saved.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Europe
  • Saved

• Roadrunner wanted to make Born in the Flood the next Nickelback, but I didn't want to be that. I didn't want to be a huge rock star playing songs I didn't like. I didn't want to be stuck playing 'Anthem,' the song everybody liked but I didn't want to put on the record, for the next five years.

  

  Nathaniel Rateliff
  • Want
  • Song
  • Rock

• I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • You
  • Funny
  • Feel

• My parents weren't keen on the giving up of school at the beginning to go into singing and dancing, but once they saw I was serious about it, they gave support. I was quite stubborn about my decision, and in the end, they realised it was for the best.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Up
  • School
  • Parents

• Conversations between parents and kids are important - about race issues, about all kinds of things, about heritage.

  

  Garcelle Beauvais
  • Important
  • Kids
  • Parents

• People always say to me, 'It must have been wonderful coming from old Hollywood, with all those movie stars,' but I never knew anyone. I didn't even know who Charlie Chaplin was. My parents really kept me away from it all.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • People
  • Movie
  • Parents

• Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • Man
  • Religion
  • Beauty

• A friend of mine at the American Enterprise Institute says there are two parties: the silly party and the stupid party. I'm too old for the silly party, so I had to join the stupid party.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • American
  • Party
  • Friend

• I love the food in Thailand because of the exotic spices they use. Their style of cooking is unique to their culture and always amazing.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Culture
  • Food
  • Amazing

• China's movie industry is growing a lot faster than that of the U.S.

  

  Wang Jianlin
  • Movie
  • Growing
  • Industry

• Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Religious
  • Strength
  • Weakness

• And the wild regrets, and the bloody sweats,None knew so well as I:For he who lives more lives than oneMore deaths than one must die.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Die
  • Lives
  • Knew

• The Soviet scheme of compulsory labor is being applied on such a broad scale and is so boldly presented as a ‘proletarian’ scheme that it constitutes the gravest danger that has confronted labor for centuries.

  

  Samuel Gompers

• People are always asking me what it's like to be Judy Garland's daughter. It's hard to be a legend's child.

  

  Lorna Luft
  • People
  • Daughter
  • Legend

• The web is democratising and also the voice of people who don't think they have another outlet. And that voice can be punitive.

  

  Mary Beard
  • People

• For it is in giving that we receive.

  

  Francis of Assisi
  • Giving

• The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously consider them as achievable.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Goals
  • Consider
  • Achievable

• Oh, God, give me grace for this day. Not for a lifetime, nor for next week, nor for tomorrow, just for this day. Direct my thoughts and bless them Direct my work and bless it. Direct the things I say and give them blessing, too. Direct and bless everything that I think and speak and do. So that for this one day, just this one day, I have the gift of grace that comes from your presence. . . .

  

  Marjorie Holmes
  • Work
  • God
  • Thoughts

• Eight hours of work, eight hours of play, eight hours of sleep - eight hours a day!

  

  Bill Haywood
  • Work
  • Play
  • Sleep