Bob Hicok Quotes

You might think and be so marvelously right about praise that you open your door one day and the day walks in and stays for years.

Bob Hicok

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• When I walk into a Best Buy, I now see, right from the front door, a giant Apple logo. I see a giant Samsung logo. I see a giant Microsoft Windows logo. And those are stores within a store.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Best
  • Door
  • Walk

• I think I'm somebody who takes praise with a very big - probably too big - pinch of salt.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • Think
  • Praise
  • Salt

• For me, I can't watch violence when it's too grotesque, and it's just like, that's revolting to watch. I don't enjoy it. But when it's a Tarantino film, I'm lining up outside the door to see it, and I'm expecting to see something really crazy, a lot of blood, and for it to be funny.

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
  • Up
  • Funny
  • Crazy

• I'm the girl next door, not the sex symbol.

  

  Carla Gallo
  • Girl
  • Sex
  • Door

• The sweetest of all sounds is praise.

  

  Xenophon
  • Wisdom
  • Praise
  • Sounds

• I've been pretty lucky with neighbors. But back in 1998, I lived, like, literally next door to Wrigley Field in Chicago. And I had, like, 50,000 bad neighbors spread out over the course of one summer. I'm a diehard Cubs fan, but living right next to the ballpark, it's just - as you're trying to go to sleep, you can just, like, hear urination.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Trying
  • Bad
  • Pretty

• I never wanted to be a director. I came into this industry by the little door, so I never learned anything; I never went to school. Actors will tell you I'm very precise. I just have the intuition of doing things.

  

  Olivier Megaton
  • School
  • Door
  • Doing

• Not all of us are chameleons that can do every different thing. I hope I'm going to be typecast. I will play the girl next door for the rest of my life if I have to. I always kind of feel like I have that in my pocket when I go in a room.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Life
  • Different
  • Hope

• Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Up
  • Nothing
  • Praise

• My grandmother had this high-tech security system - a rusty nail she used to lock the door.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Door
  • Grandmother
  • Security System

• I used to always sing my way into the movies and the basketball games or whatever. I'd sing for whoever's on the door, and they'd let me in. I used to think I was Nat King Cole back in the day, you know. So I'd sing something like, 'Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa, men have named you,' and they'd let me in.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Men
  • Day
  • Door

• Of course I was in love with my father as a child. He was Daddy, and our house came alive in a special way whenever he walked through the door. He'd romp and play with us; my sisters and I would literally squeal with excitement when Daddy came home.

  

  Ilyasah Shabazz
  • Love
  • Home
  • Father

• I like people who are still actively creating in their life, who aren't set, I don't feel like I'm set. And I don't have any baggage, for better or worse. I don't have any plants or pets or kids. I can lock the door and go. I need to be with somebody for whom that's okay.

  

  Dana Delany
  • People
  • Life
  • Kids

• If efforts to do social work are couched in selfish motives, then they will die a premature death. Why would my efforts get politicised? I have values I inherited from my father. He helped many. Anyone, even a postman knocking on our door would get a glass of water and some sweets.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Work
  • Why
  • Father

• Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Evil
  • Door
  • Open

• And, as the Cock crew, those who stood before The Tavern shouted - 'Open then the Door! You know how little while we have to stay, And, once departed, may return no more'.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • May
  • Door

• The 'boy next door' parts I get offered, I don't find interesting.

  

  Douglas Booth
  • Interesting
  • Boy
  • Door

• I can't live without knowing I have my extensions and ponytail. So I can run out the door at the drop of a hat.

  

  Christie Brinkley
  • Live
  • Door

• The door banged open and Eve rushed out, flushed and mussed and still buttoning her shirt. "It's not what you think." She said. "It was just - oh OK, whatever, it was exactly what you think. Now WHAT?

  

  Rachel Caine
  • She
  • Door
  • Open

• You know you can be having a bad day and someone will walk by and say: 'Hey, I love you, Will.' That really cheers you up. That's a really lovely thing.

  

  Will Ferrell
  • Knows
  • Lovely
  • Walks

• Recording - once something's done, it's done, there's not much you can do about it. It's out there and you just have to pray to the gods.

  

  Eric Burdon
  • Done

• In the human heart there is a built-in obsolescence factor. It does not matter how powerful and influential you are, how much education you have, how selfcontrolled or holy you consider yourself—your heart, if you do not guard it, will break down.

  

  K. P. Yohannan
  • Heart
  • Education
  • Powerful

• You might think and be so marvelously right about praise that you open your door one day and the day walks in and stays for years.

  

  Bob Hicok
  • Door
  • Praise
  • Walks