Bob Stoops Quotes

We felt, as a staff, we're going to start Thompson. We feel that he has earned it to this point.

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• There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Man
  • Woman

• We do all the appropriating. They do not do any of it down at the White House. They send a budget up here, and we don't have to pay any attention it to at all. We do what we want to do.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Up
  • Want
  • House

• I'm more the sort of person who doesn't like hugging strangers because we don't know each other, so we shouldn't.

  

  Carey Mulligan
  • Know
  • Like
  • Strangers

• First developed as a weapon by the U.S. Army, VX is an oily, odorless and tasteless liquid that kills on contact with the skin or when inhaled in aerosol form. Like other nerve agents, it is treatable in the first minutes after exposure but otherwise leads swiftly to fatal convulsions and respiratory failure.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Failure
  • Army
  • First

• I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Famous
  • Name-Dropper

• I want to act, if I can, as a bridge for people who read 'Shock Doctrine' or 'No Logo'. People who are sitting out for whatever reasons.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • People
  • Want
  • Bridge

• When I put magic into a book - whether it's a wizard or a crusty old werewolf - I'm asking a reader to swallow a huge leap that is counter to everything he or she knows. An extra big helping of reality makes that leap go down a lot easier.

  

  Patricia Briggs
  • She
  • Book
  • Reality

• We're newspaper junkies; I can't imagine life without a newspaper.

  

  Sally Quinn
  • Life
  • Without
  • Newspaper

• The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Leadership
  • Employees

• If people knew of ethics violations, they should have sent them to the Ethics Committee. If you think there was serious ethics violation that ought to be looked at, you don't hold it back for retaliatory purposes.

  

  Barney Frank
  • People
  • Serious
  • Ethics

• The first thing that is not obvious to people is global warming is a less-than-1% effect. It's like being shortchanged at the bank by a penny every dollar. Over a long period of time with lots of transactions, that piles up.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I wanted to go to Jupiter. That was my plan from day one, and David Lynch gave me the ticket.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Me
  • Day
  • Plan

• I liked blues from the time my mother used to take me to church. I started to listen to gospel music, so I liked that. But I had an aunt at that time, my mother's aunt who bought records by people like Lonnie Johnson, Robert Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, and a few others.

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• The VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston Strangler is to the woman alone.

  

  Jack Valenti
  • American
  • Alone
  • Woman

• My father was an autodidact. It wasn't a middle-class house. Shopkeepers are aspirant. He paid for me to go to private school. He was denied an education - he had a horrible childhood. He got a place at a grammar school and wasn't allowed to go.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • School
  • Father
  • House

• You should not ask questions without knowledge.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • You
  • Knowledge
  • Questions

• There's always been a relationship between the film world and fashion.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • World
  • Relationship
  • Fashion

• I went to a military school, so I'm always talking like 'Yes, sir,' or 'No, ma'am.' I was doing that even before military school, so I've always had it, I guess.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • School
  • Military
  • Doing

• People are always asking me what my lyrics mean. Does it mean this, does it mean that, that's all anybody wants to know. F**k them, darling. I say what any decent poet would say if you dared ask him to analyze his work: If you see it, dear, then it's there. ... I think my melodies are superior to my lyrics. ... I was never too keen on the British music press. They've called us a supermarket hype, and they used to suggest that we didn't write our own songs.

  

  Freddie Mercury Queen
  • Mean
  • Lyrics
  • Analyze

• It's all because of my parents that I am gifted with such good looks and people get attracted to me. I have built an image in the industry, and because of that, I have so many female fans. I want to build my male fan following, too.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • People
  • Good
  • Parents

• God will understand, my lord. And if he doesn't, then he is not God and we need not worry.

  

  Balian of Ibelin
  • God
  • Worry
  • Needs

• I'm one of these very focused people when it comes to day-to-day work, and I'm trying not to think about what comes next so that I can stay very focused on what I'm doing now.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • People
  • Work

• The whole point with type is for you not to be aware it is there. If you remember the shape of a spoon with which you just ate some soup, then the spoon had a poor shape.

  

  Adrian Frutiger
  • Point
  • Type
  • Shape

• We felt, as a staff, we're going to start Thompson. We feel that he has earned it to this point.

  

  Bob Stoops
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  • Staff