Edgar Pangborn Quotes

Wishing for the impossible in the future is a good exercise, I think, especially for children; wishing for it in the past is surely the emptiest and saddest of occupations.

Edgar Pangborn

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• It's those damn critics again.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Critics
  • Again
  • Damn

• You know, I endeavor to be more like my older brother. He's very magnetic. He's actually very much like 'Castle' in that people are attracted to him, and just want to be near him. You want to know where my brother is in a crowded room? He's the guy with the crowd around him.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • People
  • Guy
  • Want

• I was interested in implements of mass destruction - from an academic point of view.

  

  Dan Farmer
  • Point
  • View
  • Point Of View

• Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Different
  • War

• I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • Up
  • Good
  • Chance

• I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Me

• I hope for all of us that the future brings us towards evolving our consciousness. To delving deeper into our true power. To exploring more the key to sustaining our planet and our art for the better of all living things.

  

  Rain Phoenix
  • Art
  • Power
  • True

• The challenge starts when you first come to Mumbai. But it's momentary if you win an award.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Challenge
  • Win
  • Award

• I consider myself more a European director who is from Iceland than an Icelandic director.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • Myself
  • More
  • Iceland

• In America, it is traditional to destroy the black body - it is heritage.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • America
  • Black
  • Body

• Little deeds are like little seeds, they grow to flowers or to weeds.

  

  Daniel D. Palmer
  • Like
  • Grow
  • Flowers

• NATO's brutal military alliance has become the most perfidious instrument of repression known in the history of humankind.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • History
  • Military
  • Alliance

• All is interrelated. Heaven and earth, air and water. All are but one thing; not four, not two and not three, but one. Where they are not together, there is only an incomplete piece.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Together
  • Earth
  • Water

• If I'm to fall, would you be there to applaud, or would you hide behind them all? 'Cause if I have to go, in my heart you'd grow, and that's where you belong.

  

  Liam Gallagher Oasis
  • Heart
  • Fall

• There's no greatest moment in the arts. It's a life, it's a continuity thing. You can't have a great moment because it's spiritual. It's a belief, it's a calling. If you're an artist, doing your own thing on your own, it's while you're doing it that counts. It's a process. If you get too elated, you can get too depressed.

  

  LeRoy Neiman
  • Life
  • Great
  • Spiritual

• A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power.

  

  Dean Koontz
  • Power
  • Goals

• You need the commitment of people that aren't worried about that next election, who are going to do the right thing and worry about the next generation. It's called political courage. And I can tell you, with me, you don't have to ask whether I have political courage.

  

  Jeff Fitzgerald
  • People
  • Political
  • Worry

• Basically, what happened was, I had moved out to Los Angeles, I was pretty damn lazy and I put on some pounds.

  

  Jason Biggs
  • Pretty
  • Lazy

• There is something exciting when you see people who are very formal talking with each other, and there is a sense that they have chosen to be that way. There is something masked that is more interesting to me than just people who are intent on displaying their uniqueness or whatever.

  

  Bill Pullman
  • People
  • Interesting

• Gen. Banks has issued an order for the instruction of Negro children. Schoolhouses are to be built or rented and Teachers hired for this purpose, and the farmers and planters are to pay the Taxes in support of this.

  

  Knute Nelson
  • Children
  • Support
  • Purpose

• The names for things don't come first. Words stagger after, hopelessly trying to become the sensation.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Trying
  • Words
  • Firsts

• When you don't even get to try, you're like in a vacuum.

  

  Emma Stone
  • Vacuum

• We didn't think we were a fourth-place team. For us to beat the first-place team in the West and the first-place team in the East shows the dedication and determination that we had.

  

  Cobi Jones
  • Team
  • Determination
  • Dedication

• Wishing for the impossible in the future is a good exercise, I think, especially for children; wishing for it in the past is surely the emptiest and saddest of occupations.

  

  Edgar Pangborn
  • Children
  • Exercise
  • Occupation