Chris Shays Quotes

He's lost his office. He's lost his staff. And he's now basically a rank-and-file member who has a lot of friends and will still have influence.

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• His acting remains forever fixed in a time that never dates.

  

  Vincent Canby
  • Time
  • Forever
  • Never

• I love parties. I love a good time.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Time
  • Good
  • Parties

• The utilization of flat roofs as 'grounds' offers us a means of re-acclimatizing nature amidst the stony deserts of our great towns; for the plots from which she has been evicted to make room for buildings can be given back to her up aloft.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Up
  • Great
  • She

• I know what it takes to be fast and I feel like every year I learn valuable lessons about how to be better the next time.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Time
  • Learn
  • Year

• Sure I'm leaving the Bee Gees. I'm going into films.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Leaving
  • Going
  • Bee

• I'm rooting for Saudi Arabia getting a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Human
  • Rights
  • Human Rights

• I am becoming more radical with age. I have noticed that writers, when they are old, become milder. But for me it is the opposite. Age makes me more angry.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • Age
  • Angry
  • Old

• Writing a memoir is such a private, personal experience that it's intimidating to think of adapting it for television.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • Writing
  • Experience
  • Think

• I got married very early, and in no time at all, we had three children. And it seemed to me I had an obligation to support them.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Time
  • Children
  • Support

• Very early in life, it seemed to me that there was a relationship between the problems of the Negro people in America and the Jewish people in Russia, and that the Jewish people's problems were worse than ours.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • People
  • Life
  • America

• I think that horror, in general, is fairly popular. It's definitely popular in film. There's just not a lot of good horror on TV, so whenever there is good horror on TV, people rush to it.

  

  Oren Peli
  • People
  • Good
  • Think

• It's because Gandhi believed in villages and because the British ruled from the cities; therefore, Nehru thought of New Delhi as an un-Indian city.

  

  Nandan Nilekani
  • City
  • Thought
  • British

• Classical pianist Awadagin Pratt. I first heard this eccentric and introverted performer when I was living in the Midwest. He was playing Brahms ballades - haunting.

  

  Daniel Breaker
  • First
  • Playing
  • Living

• I think the best endings bring you back in rather than close things off with absolute finality. I'm not saying they necessarily have to be ambiguous, but we don't always need to know what happens when everyone wakes up tomorrow morning.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Best

• We can solve many problems thousands of times faster than natural selection. Now, by creating the means to execute those simulations at much higher speeds, we are entering a regime as radically different from our human past as we humans are from the lower animals.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Different
  • Past

• the confluent smallpox - invented perhaps as the cruellest remedy for human vanity (II)

  

  Lawrence Durrell

• 'No interviews. No panels. No speeches. No comments,' he Wasserman ordered his agents. 'Stay out of the spotlight. It fades your suit.'

  

  Lew Wasserman

• I believe the job of the FBI Director is to be as transparent as possible with the American people because we work for them.

  

  James Comey
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• Enthusiasm is the greatest asset you can possess, for it can take you further than money, power or influence.

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • Money
  • Power
  • Influence

• Because I lost a daughter, eight years old, to cystic fibrosis, I think that anytime that I'm dealing with people who, like Andrea Yeager, are trying to help those sick children, I identify very much with them.

  

  Frank Deford
  • People
  • Children
  • Trying

• I'm just not into happy-clappy pop. Unless it's happy-clappy pop in a good way.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Way

• Some writers are curiously unmusical. I don't get it. I don't get them. For me, music is essential. I always have music on when I'm doing well. Writing and music are two different mediums, but musical phrases can give you sentences that you didn't think you ever had.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Music
  • Well
  • Mediums

• Quantity has a quality all its own.

  

  Joseph Stalin
  • Quality
  • Quantity

• He's lost his office. He's lost his staff. And he's now basically a rank-and-file member who has a lot of friends and will still have influence.

  

  Chris Shays
  • Lost
  • Influence
  • Office