Ed Ayres Quotes

It's ironic that Olympic spectators will never have seen Yiannis Kouros, the greatest Greek athlete since Pheidippides.

Ed Ayres

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• I think 'The Color of Money' was very instrumental in opening up other opportunities. People started to recognize me as an artist after that film. And then, after I did 'Bird,' it was more solidified.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• Ryan Gosling's, like, my crush, but I don't really pay attention to his personal style.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • Attention
  • Style
  • Crush

• Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • Nature
  • Perfect
  • Value

• Oh, I'm quite the impulse buyer. Most of what I buy is stuff for my Jeep, 'cause it breaks down a lot.

  

  Patrick Fugit
  • Down
  • Most
  • Oh

• For my own part, once I became a teenager, I experienced severe and violent racism.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Teenager
  • Racism
  • My Own

• Privatization is more efficient and effective in some cases, but not in intelligence.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • More
  • Intelligence
  • Some

• In a way, my childhood was one long bunch of pages... I read and read and read.

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
  • Long
  • Way
  • Childhood

• May was young and beautiful, we were legally married, but she was caught in the prison of my skin.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • May
  • Beautiful
  • Young

• The most important images for human beings are simply words, which are abstract symbols. ...Evolution has greatly enlarged the front lobes of the human brain, which govern the sense of the past and the future; and... they are probably the seat of our other images.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Important
  • Future
  • Past

• The obsessive rules of etiquette struck Emily as mean-spirited, like the old trick of tying someone’s shoelaces under the table. It was only fun if you liked watching people fall down.

  

  M. K. Hobson
  • People
  • Fun
  • Fall

• ...on youth unemployment - governments should ensure that one out of three of jobs in the public sector are opened up to the youth and that at least one person in every household should have access to a job.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • Up
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• 'Haven’t you ever heard of morale-building?' Khouri had asked.'Heard of it,' Volyova said. 'Don’t happen to agree with it. Would you rather be happy and dead, or scared and alive?'

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • Happy

• My two essential ingredients are chilies, any kind, dried or fresh; and acid, whether it's citrus - lemon, lime, yuzu - or vinegars. Food has to pop.

  

  Jean-Georges Vongerichten
  • Food

• I'm a devilish kind of person, but I embrace it. I don't try to fight it. It's proven very well for me.

  

  Chelsea Handler

• I try not to be neurotic; I try to create and present healthy body image.

  

  Kimora Lee Simmons
  • Present

• We can never, ever say it enough: every woman - especially every young woman-has to take charge of her health... and do what's right for her!

  

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz
  • Health

• All the movies that I make in some ways have to be the story of my life. There are different chapters in my life.

  

  Jodie Foster
  • Life
  • Different

• I say the stupidest stuff, all the time, off of Twitter, and so I think Twitter is good way for people to get to know the stupid side of me.

  

  Kris Allen
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• I don't want to sound too spiritual, but when you are true to yourself and follow through with things that connect with you meaningfully, somehow things fall into place.

  

  Bennett Miller
  • True
  • Fall
  • Spiritual

• I quickly realised that it is difficult to get started when writing a novel. You have this dream of what you want to create, but it is like walking around a swimming pool and hesitating to jump in because the water is too cold.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Writing
  • Dream
  • Water

• A car crash harnesses elements of eroticism, aggression, desire, speed, drama, kinesthetic factors, the stylizing of motion, consumer goods, status - all these in one event. I myself see the car crash as a tremendous sexual event really: a liberation of human and machine libido (if there is such a thing).

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Desire
  • Car
  • Drama

• I must have been a really pretentious little girl.

  

  Emily Mortimer
  • Girl

• It's ironic that Olympic spectators will never have seen Yiannis Kouros, the greatest Greek athlete since Pheidippides.

  

  Ed Ayres
  • Greek
  • Ironic
  • Olympic