Bill Lear Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Chavez made a compete fool of himself in front of the entire world while giving the U.N. a black eye. But the real losers are the Venezuelan people who have to put up with this unstable character every day.
-
My mum was a dancer. She would tour the world with a group, and she had me in a dance class when I was still in a nappy. They told her to come back when I could walk.
-
Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment.
-
My dad is truly the person who always made me believe in myself, to appreciate that I was smart.
-
I prefer to find craftspeople I can be colleagues with and who take an area of responsibility and run with it.
-
Ninety percent of the students take the 'preferred lender.' Why? Because that's the nature of the relationship. You trust the school. The school is in a position of authority.
-
Discipline says, 'I need to.' Duty says, 'I ought to.' Devotion says, 'I want to.'
-
Let’s just agree any group of 3 or more handsome British men should be referred to as a 'cumberbatch.'
-
The advantage of Fashion is that there is no racism
-
I have a guest house because I don't want people in my home.
-
Men use a new lesson or experience later on as a ploughshare or perhaps also as a weapon; women at once make it into an ornament.
-
Do you know how many times a week people ask me why I'm yelling?
-
Any other town you go to there's this little devil and a little angel on your shoulder. A little good advice, a little bad advice.You go to Las Vegas, there's like a devil and a devil and they're just battling it out the whole time. It's like, "Smoke some crack!" "Get a hooker!" And then I go, "YEA! Yea, this is a good town. Smoke some crack and get a hooker! Alright!"
-
The Hopi Indians of Arizona believe that our daily rituals and prayers literally keep this world spinning on its axis. For me, feeding the seagulls is one of those everyday prayers.
-
What’s the point of having beliefs and values if we don't stand up for the former and live by the latter?
-
We don't really have a star system in Canada, so to try and get people to watch your show or stand-up is always a challenge. That's the trick.
-
I'm very at ease, and I like it. I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn't think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that's happening to me. I'm rather surprised at who I am, because I'm actually like my dad!
-
Forget market or publishers or whatever. Just write with fire and joy, and in my own experience, those are the stories of mine people have wanted to read.
