Wes Montgomery Quotes

I got a standard box. I don't never want nothing special. Then if I drop my box, I can borrow somebody else's.

Wes Montgomery

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• And although I've been very fortunate in the film work that's come my way, I need to get back to the stage. If I'm away for a maximum of two years, I feel something's wrong.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Work
  • Feel
  • Stage

• If you want to do stuff, you have to be able to handle controversy.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Want
  • You
  • Handle

• I want to do roles that take women a step farther. I don't want to be slotted into anything. But if I get a brilliant role which requires me to be a mother, then I will do it. But I want people to see that a woman could be anything at whatever age, even if she is married or has two kids.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • People
  • Women
  • She

• There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Kind
  • Movement
  • Conservative

• When you're a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, 'Gee, I wouldn't want to be doing that.' They're on your side.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • War
  • Doing
  • Saying

• The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Good
  • Feel
  • Chinese

• In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • You
  • Sleep
  • Fortune

• I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Dad
  • Myself
  • New York

• I had these experiences as a kid; I remember certain things happening in school that were horrifying that I would see, certain things of violence or certain things of cruelty, but around that, something might happen afterwards to cause everyone to laugh, and that always blew me away.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • School
  • Remember
  • Violence

• I think you grow wherever God plants you. I hope I'm growing as a person of faith, as a Christian. That should be our number one objective this journey of life. That all starts with a personal intimate relationship with Christ and then being in prayer every single day about all of those things - being tenacious about it.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Life
  • God
  • Hope

• If you were to come to the set of Alias, you'd know how silly we all are. And I mean, silly.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Know
  • Mean
  • Silly

• Injections are the best thing ever invented for feeding doctors.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Best
  • Ever
  • Feeding

• Science is defined in various ways, but today it is generally restricted to something which is experimental, which is repeatable, which can be predicted, and which is falsifiable.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Today
  • Science
  • Something

• I like chords that are very lush with all the lush parts taken out.

  

  Carla Bley
  • Taken
  • Like
  • Very

• The Democrats' drive to defeat Neil Gorsuch is the latest battle in a 50-year war for control of the Supreme Court - a war that began with a conspiracy against Richard Nixon by Chief Justice Earl Warren, Justice Abe Fortas and Lyndon Johnson.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • War
  • Control
  • Justice

• While 'Friends' was about a 20-something population and what they were going through, they were also dealing with issues with their family.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Through

• Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Long
  • Live
  • Old

• 'Dexter' I'm very fond of. I got addicted to that.

  

  Sam Neill
  • Very
  • Got
  • Fond

• When you work somewhere and you feel comfortable, you don't want to leave. You want to stay there forever.

  

  Felix Hernandez
  • Work
  • Want
  • You

• Now is a good time, 10 years ago would have been a good time, and 10 years from now it will still be a good time to see a dynamic, entertaining movie that's wall-to-wall Miles Davis where the music will hopefully spark some desire to know more about the man.

  

  Don Cheadle
  • Time
  • Good
  • Music

• My parents were so far from the music world that they couldn't conceive how you could make a living. But for me, it was the only solution for the rest of my life.

  

  Pierre Boulez
  • Life
  • World
  • Music

• I survived a number of garage bands during my teens and early twenties, both as drummer and guitarist. It's nigh impossible for me to listen to music without parsing it.

  

  F. Paul Wilson
  • Music

• If you truly believe in a united Jerusalem, deeds have to be more than words. We need a real united Jerusalem. It takes determination, audacity, and money to provide full services and law enforcement in the entire city.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Believe
  • Real
  • Money

• I got a standard box. I don't never want nothing special. Then if I drop my box, I can borrow somebody else's.

  

  Wes Montgomery
  • Music
  • Want
  • Special