Bryant Terry Quotes

I'm in San Francisco because of the energy, the ideas, and the fact that this is a great place for me to land. When I'm traveling and working nationally, I love coming back here.

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• I was very good in all the maths and sciences.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Good
  • Very
  • Sciences

• My voice is not good enough for me to sing a song.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Good
  • Song
  • Enough

• I never want to be anywhere else than in the rehearsal room. I mean, it's so lame to say, but it makes me supremely happy to work with people and to talk and invent and laugh.

  

  Yael Stone
  • People
  • Work
  • Happy

• I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.

  Garry Kasparov
  • People
  • Learning
  • Democracy

• People appreciate and follow the person who can persuade them properly. Make that person you.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • People
  • Appreciate
  • Follow

• I travel like a maniac. I travel more than anyone I know. I love learning the languages.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Know
  • Learning
  • Like

• As a kid I read Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and a few others. As an adult have admired Leonardo da Vinci's drawings and notebooks.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Kid
  • Read
  • Others

• I still get called 'a stick of dynamite' or 'pint-sized dynamo,' stuff like that. Actually, I was too busy to notice there was anything unusual about being a woman director until the early 1980s, when I looked around the professional theater and realized there weren't many of us. You have to make more of a case for yourself than any man.

  

  Garry Hynes
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Professional

• I read somewhere once that in the 1960s, fiction writers were troubled by the notion that life was becoming stranger and more sensational than made-up stories could ever hope to be. Our new problem - more profound, I think - is that life no longer resembles a story. Events intersect but don't progress. People interact but don't make contact.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I think you can say a lot of evil behavior by companies is short-term optimization.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Think
  • Evil
  • Behavior

• I'm not a kid anymore. And I'm excited for all the amazing things to come.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Amazing
  • Kid
  • Come

• I run my own world, because I very firmly believe that my destiny, my future is in my hands and I don't want to blame anybody else for the path that I take.

  

  Vijay Mallya
  • World
  • Believe
  • Future

• When you win a Grammy... you're thinking about you winning. It is amazing. Your peers and folks in the record business are saying, 'This is what we think of you.' And that's why the Grammy will always be, to me, the ultimate in what you get as far as a music trophy, because it is the one.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Why

• It's always been hard trying to find the right pieces that go together, but it's always been something that interests me - finding new ways to be fashionable and cute but still being modest.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Trying
  • Together
  • Cute

• 'I fly from pleasure,' said the prince, 'because pleasure has ceased to please; I am lonely because I am miserable, and am unwilling to cloud with my presence the happiness of others.'

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Fly
  • Lonely
  • Prince

• Claghorn had long insisted that no human condition endured forever, with the corollary that the more complicated such a condition, the greater its susceptibility to change.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Long
  • Forever

• I really wasn't even aware that Batman and Superman had this kind of grudging friendship.

  

  Mark Valley
  • Friendship
  • Batman
  • Superman

• Acting's fine if the script's written by Paddy Chayefsky and Martin Scorsese directs it, but unless you have something like that, I don't really enjoy acting.

  

  Jeff Garlin

• The Senate cannot confirm an individual... who would support a scheme that violates our Constitution, eviscerates congressional authority.

  

  Jeff Sessions
  • Support

• Now hoppin'-john was F. Jasmine's very favorite food. She had always warned them to wave a plate of rice and peas before her nose when she was in her coffin, to make certain there was no mistake; for if a breath of life was left in her, she would sit up and eat, but if she smelled the hopping-john, and did not stir, then they could just nail down the coffin and be certain she was truly dead.

  

  Carson McCullers
  • Mistake
  • Wave
  • Culinary

• I hope that none of the countries in the Middle East are planning anything but the peaceful utilization of nuclear energy.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Hope
  • Energy
  • Planning

• How'd we come up with the robe? Was some guy just like, 'Hey, I've got an idea! Why don't we make a coat out of a towel? You can have a little belt that goes around. You could dunk the belt in the toilet! Have a toilet belt.'

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Guy
  • Ideas
  • Littles

• I'm in San Francisco because of the energy, the ideas, and the fact that this is a great place for me to land. When I'm traveling and working nationally, I love coming back here.

  

  Bryant Terry
  • Energy
  • Ideas
  • San Francisco