Bob Wickman Quotes
It's fun. When we win, we don't have to look at the standings. When we lose, we have to hope that someone else lost.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't care to be remembered as the man who scored six touchdowns in a game. I want to be remembered as a winner in life.
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By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.
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I fell in love, not deep, but I fell several times and then fell out.
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There are many things that matter much more than an editor's gender in shaping the direction of the leadership.
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Being a celebrity is a business.
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I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday. Also, my love for good writing pushed me.
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Before I was ever a poet, my father was writing poems about me, so it was a turning of the tables when I became a poet and started answering, speaking back to his poems in ways that I had not before.
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I began to write in an enclosed, self-confident literary culture. The poet's life stood in a burnished light in the Ireland of that time. Poets were still poor, had little sponsored work, and could not depend on a sympathetic reaction to their poetry. But the idea of the poet was honored.
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My mother died when I was young, and I was filming all the time. I was all over the place. Acting was the one constant.
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Coach Morris wasn't too hard on me, not at all. Being drafted where I was at, there were high expectations for me. I still have high expectations for myself.
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To be honest, you don't get the full picture when you read a script.
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Men are very emotionally dependent upon women from the day they are born to the day they expire.
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I don't know any musician who got to the top without hard work. Take whoever you want. They all work bloody hard, harder than you think.
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I believe in the institution of marriage, but one can't fix a time for it. Please don't predict it for me.
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I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada - timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts. I really did have to walk home six miles through the snow, like your grandparents used to complain.
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Thrashing about on stage is my exercise for the day!
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Accept good advice gracefully - as long as it doesn't interfere with what you intended to do in the first place.
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You never walk out of the gym and say, 'I shouldn't have gone.'
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Our moral virtues benefit mainly other people; intellectual virtues, on the other hand, benefit primarily ourselves; therefore the former make us universally popular, the latter unpopular.
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As an actor, I'm always up for exploring and trying new things.
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When the word 'morality' comes up in connection with economics, income distribution and financial stability are usually the issues. Is it moral for rich countries to use such a high proportion of the world's resources or for investment bankers to earn large bonuses?
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It's fun. When we win, we don't have to look at the standings. When we lose, we have to hope that someone else lost.
