Brent Stirton Quotes

You get used to seeing certain things, and if you don't find a new way to talk about it, then frankly at some point you need to get out of the way.

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• Music seems hard-wired into our very being. It moves us, stirs us to action, sets us in motion, sticks in our memories and minds.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Music
  • Action
  • Memories

• I've discovered that the standard all-American dream of fame and fortune is not success for me. Success for me is simply the joy of working - doing good work - and then bringing that joy home to my family. But if what I do in my work doesn't enrich my life with my family, I'm doing the wrong thing.

  

  Gary Burghoff
  • Life
  • Good
  • Work

• Golf is 90% mental. Once you know how to hold the club, swing it, it's all in the mind.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Mind
  • Know
  • Golf

• If I'm confirmed, I'll be myself.

  

  Samuel Alito
  • Myself
  • Confirmed

• The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • You
  • Respect
  • White

• America's freedom of religion, and freedom from religion, offers every wisdom tradition an opportunity to address our soul-deep needs: Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, secular humanism, agnosticism and atheism among others.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • America
  • Soul
  • Freedom

• Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Religious
  • Nothing

• I like to think of myself as classy.

  

  Ieva Laguna
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Classy

• After we wrote The Wreckoning, our record label did listen.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Record
  • Listen
  • After

• I save money when I'm working so that I never have to take a role simply to pay the bills.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Money
  • Never
  • Save

• If an umpire misses a called third strike and the other side ends up scoring because of it, I'm not going to forget it. If there are runners on second and third and two out, and if the umpire has just given the hitter an extra strike and the next pitch goes into the hole and both runs score, I've got to say something to the guy.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Forget

• I'm sponsored by Audi, so I have this rather lovely rather arrangement where they just insist that I'm always in the latest model.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Always
  • Model
  • Lovely

• In case you're wondering whether I lip synch, the answer is no... people think so because I sound so good.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Good
  • Think

• As a child, I was always drawn to heroic characters. I decided I wanted to act when I realised that Superman and all those gangsters and Indians were just real people in costume.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • People
  • Real
  • Child

• I believe everything falls into place as it's supposed to.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Believe
  • Place
  • I Believe

• When I realized I was having trouble reading, I was too embarrassed to ask for help. Some teachers believed in me, but I just wasn't focused on school - I was into the music and trying to please my dad.

  

  Fantasia Barrino
  • Music
  • Trying
  • School

• After 9/11, whatever the evidence of intelligence failures, many people still saw that attack as almost unimaginable, so brutal and brazen an assault.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • People
  • Intelligence
  • Almost

• As an offensive player, you always want to produce and score goals, especially when that's your job on the team.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Job
  • Team
  • Player

• Green roofs, roadside plantings, porous pavement, and sidewalk gardens have been proven to reduce flooding. They absorb rainwater before it swamps the streets and sewage systems.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Green
  • Been
  • Streets

• No myth dies harder, and none is more regularly debunked by the facts, than the one about international sports contributing to international friendship.

  

  Alistair Cooke
  • Sports
  • Friendship
  • Dies

• For the longest time after that, neither of us said anything. I was unaccustomed to his silence, but I didn't mind it. I knew near everything about him, and he knew near everything about me, and all that made our quiet a kind of song. The kind you hum without even knowing what it is or why you're humming it. The kind that you've always known.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Why

• You get used to seeing certain things, and if you don't find a new way to talk about it, then frankly at some point you need to get out of the way.

  

  Brent Stirton
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