Billy Nungesser Quotes

We will die a slow death over the next two years as this oil creeps ashore.

Billy Nungesser

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• All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • Great
  • New York
  • Employees

• To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Know
  • Forgive
  • Everybody

• I like to record records in Los Angeles. It's less distracting than New York, where I was based.

  

  Rain Phoenix
  • New
  • New York
  • Los Angeles

• One of my big fears is people saying my songs are all starting to sound the same.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Saying
  • Starting

• To some extent, the act of creation and the act of selling are hard to disentangle. If you create something, whether it's a painting or a company, I think if you care about it, you have some obligation to go out and tell people about it.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Care
  • Painting

• My golf swing is probably the most horrendous you've ever seen. I look like I'm trying to attack the ball.

  

  Ophelia Lovibond
  • Trying
  • Look
  • Golf

• Eighteen fifty-eight was a year of great technological advancement in the West. That was the year when Queen Victoria was able, for the first time, to communicate with President Buchanan, through the Transatlantic Telegraphic Cable. And they were the first to 'Twitter' transatlantically.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • Time
  • Great
  • Queen

• I would be a terrible person to be in a relationship with because I'm either sleeping or at the theater.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Relationship
  • Person

• I was always a big fan of Charlie Chaplin movies. I love 'The Great Dictator' and 'City Lights.'

  

  Jack Reynor
  • Great
  • Love
  • City

• For me, one of the major reasons to move beyond just the planting of trees was that I have tendency to look at the causes of a problem. We often preoccupy ourselves with the symptoms, whereas if we went to the root cause of the problems, we would be able to overcome the problems once and for all.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • Problem
  • Problems
  • Trees

• Jim Bakker. He's lost everything, he's ruined. And the worst thing of all he still has to wake up to her!

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Up
  • Lost
  • Worst

• There's this little box that African-American actors have to work in, in the first place, and I was able to rise above that box. I could have done a bunch of movies where I stayed as the Axel Foley or Reggie Hammond persona. But I didn't want to be doing the same thing all the time. Every now and then, you crash and burn, but that's part of it.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Time
  • Work
  • Done

• Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in.

  

  Larry Wall

• Real theology is always rather shocking to people who already think they know what they think. I'm still shocked myself.

  

  Larry Wall
  • People
  • Real

• Drifting in and out, you see the road you’re onIt came rolling down the cheekSay just what you need in between, it’s never as it seems

  

  Victoria Legrand Beach House
  • Road

• A lie will gallop halfway round the world before the truth has time to pull its breeches on.

  

  Cordell Hull
  • Time
  • World
  • Truth

• So in the end when one is doing philosophy one gets to the point where one would like just to emit an inarticulate sound.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

• Something different happens to my brain when I put pen to paper: the pace of writing or drawing slows you down and gives you more time for thoughts to come in.

  

  Keri Smith
  • Time
  • Different
  • Writing

• All I really care about is making great music and putting on great shows. I think, to do that, you have to be fearless. It certainly doesn't help to be insecure.

  

  Jake Shears Scissor Sisters
  • Great
  • Music
  • Help

• What is down will go up. At the same time, you have to be prepared for what is up to go down.

  

  William Shatner
  • Prepared

• I'm used to smoking some weed and getting the munchies. This nigga sold me some shit, had me looking at the refrigerator for three hours. I'm just in the kitchen, sitting on the stove, just...sits on stool, blanking staring...I bet you there ain't shit in there, nigga. I bet you...'

  

  Katt Williams
  • Kitchen
  • Smoking
  • Weed

• If people live in constant fear of death, and if breaking the law is punished by death, then who would dare?

  

  Lao Tzu
  • People
  • Death
  • Punished

• We will die a slow death over the next two years as this oil creeps ashore.

  

  Billy Nungesser
  • Death
  • Oil
  • Ashore