Bob Myers Quotes

We're kind of just in a standby mode at the moment.

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• Coney Island was the centre of the world for me. I loved the rides, the hot dogs - I've never gotten over it.

  

  Harold Feinstein
  • World
  • Me
  • Loved

• To look for some kind of insight or meaning in pop songs is not really - well there's plenty of other places where you should probably look first before you start looking for it in a pop song. I guess it was just because I was really into music as a child, and I wanted it to say more. It was the thing, wasn't it? And now it isn't.

  

  Jarvis Cocker Pulp
  • Music
  • Song

• In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.

  

  Epictetus
  • Friend
  • Adversity
  • Prosperity

• Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good; a shining gloss that fadeth suddenly; a flower that dies when it begins to bud; a doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower, lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Beauty
  • Broken
  • Flower

• The business is so driven by money, everyone's trying to get it right.

  

  Ringo Starr The Beatles
  • Money
  • Business
  • Driven

• I am always at the beginning.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Beginning

• Penelope (the parrot) squawked, ‘I’ll do it because I want to but not because you tell me to!’ Mary was certainly surprised at that because she thought that she had made up that brilliant remark. She didn’t dare to look at her mother….

  

  Betty MacDonald
  • Mother
  • Surprised
  • Parrot

• A woman should always stand by a woman.

  

  Euripides
  • Woman
  • Stand By

• Not knowing what was then unfolding, I immediately contacted my office and canceled my flight, ... From then on, we were in an alert mode for any strike that could have occurred in our county.

  

  Larry Williams
  • Strike
  • Alert
  • Mode

• You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Affected
  • Declaration
  • Mode

• I decided I like that mode. It's how I think - it's my voice. I like being funny and sad at the same time, or funny and disturbing at the same time. It's my natural voice.

  

  Deb Olin Unferth
  • Funny
  • Voice
  • Disturbing

• Actually, the British boarding school experience turns out to be not that exotic.

  

  Mark Romanek
  • School
  • Experience

• I'm not a sentimental guy.

  

  Gene Hackman
  • Guy

• People of great ability do not emerge, as a rule, from the happiest background. So far as my own observation goes, I would conclude that ability, although hereditary, is improved by an early measure of adversity and improved again by a later measure of success.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • People
  • Great
  • Success

• Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art. ~Waddington

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Life
  • Work
  • Art

• Many an irritating fault, many an unlovely oddity, has come of a hard sorrow.

  

  George Eliot
  • Sorrow
  • Fault
  • Oddity

• Irreducible complexity is a problem for Darwinian evolution. Whenever we see these complex functional systems we realise that they have to be designed.

  

  Michael Behe
  • Problem
  • Evolution
  • Complexity

• I haven't gone to college yet and I intend to in a few years.

  

  Mackenzie Astin
  • College
  • Years
  • Gone

• I think we still do have a PR problem in the sense that these institutions portray themselves quite often as a museum without the contemporary wing. For a young cutting-edge person, why would you get into that sort of business, which is very clearly geared towards dead or almost dead people?

  

  Esa-Pekka Salonen
  • People
  • Problem
  • Cutting

• We're kind of just in a standby mode at the moment.

  

  Bob Myers
  • Mode
  • Stand By