Evan Harris Quotes

Quitters have the good sense to admit their mistakes, cut their losses, and move on.

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• Everyone romanticizes somebody.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Everyone
  • Somebody

• Sometimes the better an actor is, the less he's noticed.

  

  Kate Jackson
  • Sometimes
  • Better
  • Actor

• I used to get a haircut every Saturday so I would never miss any of the comic books. I had practically no hair when I was a kid!

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Hair
  • Never
  • Saturday

• The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling to lay the foundation for democracy.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • World
  • Country
  • History

• Halas didn't believe in starting rookies.

  

  Gale Sayers
  • Believe
  • Starting

• In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Know
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• Only choices made in love are compassionate. There are no exceptions. Do you have the courage to act with an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome? If not, you have no ability to give or experience compassion. That is the shocking truth.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Experience

• As for sex, well, I mean sex is a perfectly respectable subject as far as Shakespeare is concerned. I mean, all history is love and violence.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Love
  • History
  • Violence

• The developers, if they decide to move a tortoise, have to pay the long-term costs for enhancing the areas that take care of the tortoise, and it gives us the opportunity to manage an area that is going to be protected.

  

  Gale Norton
  • Long
  • Opportunity
  • Care

• In the past, a writer had to go outside and get to know others before learning about their work, but the Internet has made humanity more accessible for misanthropes like me. I read blogs, tweets, Facebook posts and Reddit threads where people detail their jobs.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • People
  • Work
  • Past

• I think the studio gave me that series on purpose, because they knew perfectly well that Robert Riskin was ill and that I needed to go to work. They gave me that series to do.

  

  Fay Wray
  • Work
  • Think
  • Purpose

• I am very shy with people I don't know.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Shy

• Certainly situation comedy is harder than people who are good at it make it look, but it's fun to do something different.

  

  Laura San Giacomo
  • People
  • Good
  • Different

• Music was as natural as breathing in our house.

  

  Irene Dunne
  • Music
  • House

• Human beings can imagine situations which are different from those in front of their eyes... because they make and hold in their minds images for absent things.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Different
  • Eyes

• And Kinsey thought that anybody who defined themselves based on their sexual acts was limiting themselves.

  

  Bill Condon

• I never felt oppressed because of my gender. When I'm writing a poem or drawing, I'm not a female; I'm an artist.

  

  Patti Smith
  • Writing
  • Drawing

• Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing.

  

  Kenneth Grahame
  • Society

• No matter how many pleasures Satan offers you, his ultimate intention is to ruin you. Your destruction is his highest priority.

  

  Erwin W. Lutzer
  • Priority
  • Intention
  • Pleasures

• America needs education reform on all levels to expand quality schools, build on past successes, and lower college debt.

  

  Kevin McCarthy
  • America
  • Past
  • Education

• It's a big mistake to think that your own cause, or your own country, or your own side has God in its corner. For one thing, it commits the sin of pride.

  

  Christopher Hitchens
  • God
  • Country
  • Mistake

• Small mistakes, the lack of care, little accidents, and somewhere a tipping point is passed and things go badly wrong. Expedition history brims with tragedies built out of incremental missteps.

  

  Alan S. Kesselheim
  • Care
  • Mistake
  • Tragedy

• I think politics can no longer be assigned to parliamentary activity and it probably never could be. But politics with a small p and the history of trade union movement really interests me.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • History
  • Small
  • Politics

• Quitters have the good sense to admit their mistakes, cut their losses, and move on.

  

  Evan Harris
  • Mistake
  • Loss
  • Quitter