Brander Matthews Quotes
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Actually, I had no idea what shooting hoops was or were. I thought dunking was something you did with a beignet and a cup of steaming coffee. I wasn't exactly sure what a Knick was.
Hamish Bowles -
At fifty, that is in 1880, I formulated the idea of unity, without being able to render it. At sixty, I am beginning to see the possibility of rendering it.
Camille Pissarro -
In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.
Jackie Robinson -
Because my parents are Indian, everybody speaks Hindi to me, and I have no idea what they are saying.
Rajiv Ouseph -
I have no idea when it's going to be, when I'll retire.
J. J. Watt -
I'm still not used to the idea of being the youngest circumnavigator.
Laura Dekker
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Comparing oneself with one's fellow writers is a bad idea. I would not review a fellow writer unless I had something terribly positive to say.
W. G. Sebald -
The thing that intrigued me about 'Breaking Bad' from day one was the idea of taking a character and transforming him.
Vince Gilligan -
I love the idea of making a movie for kids but it's got to be that, with my take on it.
Tarsem Singh -
I've always been excited at the idea of performing a solo show.
Aaron Lazar -
The idea of designing something that is like something else is incredibly uninteresting and boring.
Yves Behar -
It's not so much the dressing up, but I love the idea of moving and existing in a different time.
Francesca Annis
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No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
As much as I love to dive into the action early, I think the hero's journey is important - the idea that the reader needs to experience the protagonist's everyday life before you turn that world upside down.
Kami Garcia -
I like the idea of capturing people who aren't there to save the world.
Illeana Douglas -
I built my entire life on the idea of independence.
Valerie Trierweiler -
I think that the idea of a war on an abstract noun is unacceptable.
Hamza Yusuf -
I'm fascinated by the emergence of a global class. They're highly mobile; they reject the idea of place.
Hari Kunzru
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I knew I was destined to do a solo album, but when I did that first album in 1978, I had no idea it was going to be that well received.
Ace Frehley Kiss -
Four inch nails is more like it!
Courtney Love -
Thats not a good idea. People need to stay away, ... If they show up and disrupt what were doing, we will arrest them for obstructing justice.
Brian Walker -
Many men ridicule the idea that it can be scientifically handled. They tell us the unemployed have always been with us, and always must be. It is the oldest reason in the world for tolerating injustice and misery.
Ida Tarbell -
When I have no idea, I gnaw my nails and invoke the aid of Providence.
Brander Matthews