George Bailey Quotes

Do you know what the three most exciting sounds in the world are? Anchor chains, airplane motors and train whistles.

George Bailey

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• The sweetest of all sounds is praise.

  

  Xenophon
  • Wisdom
  • Praise
  • Sounds

• The process of making a movie is what I love. I thrive on that. It's an exciting miracle, a mad adventure. I love being part of it.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Process
  • Adventure
  • Miracle

• Young writers should definitely research the current sounds and styles.

  

  Lamont Dozier
  • Young
  • Research
  • Sounds

• I love Amy Adams. She is wonderful. Evan Rachel Wood is a blast. I am also really excited about Ari Graynor from 'Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist' and 'American Crime.' I think it is an exciting time for young women in this industry. I am excited to make my own path.

  

  Candice Accola
  • Time
  • Women
  • Wonderful

• It's really nice to be in something that you really love and want to share with people. And then, for it to actually get shown and for people to be able to see it is awesome. It's really exciting.

  

  Kate Mara
  • People
  • Love
  • Exciting

• I love sending stuff to Usher because it always sounds better than me.

  

  Sam Dew
  • Always
  • Better
  • Sounds

• What I do is so important to me. It’s like being a parent, in some ways, of a super-demanding , high-achieving child, with a cry that sounds really cool on the radio.

  

  Lorde
  • Important
  • High
  • Cool

• The composer...joins Heaven and Earth with threads of sounds.

  

  Alan Hovhaness
  • Earth
  • Heaven
  • Sounds

• When you're given something new, it's always exciting 'cause you're the first one to do it. You're not having to live up to any expectations, or be compared to anyone who's ever done it before.

  

  Anna Friel
  • Up
  • Live
  • Done

• It's going to be meaningful and exciting. It's going to be something different, something I've never done before.

  

  Eli Manning
  • Different
  • Done
  • Meaningful

• For me, it's the unexpected and surprising combinations of produce that are the most exciting and lure me into the kitchen for a little bit of experimenting. Apples and sweet potatoes together? Who knew? Carrots with grapes? Okay. I may not be Julia Child, but I can do pretty well with a simple recipe and a lot of enthusiasm.

  

  Marlo Thomas
  • Children
  • May
  • Together

• The voice inside your head is not the voice of god. It just sounds like it thinks it is.

  

  Cheri Huber
  • God
  • Voice
  • Sounds

• Happiness is often presented as being very dull but, he thought, lying awake, that is because dull people are sometimes very happy and intelligent people can and do go around making themselves and everyone else miserable. He had never found happiness dull. It always seemed more exciting than any other thing and capable of as great intensity as sorrow to those people who were capable of having it.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Intelligent

• The writer catches the changes of his mind on the hop. Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming. Growth of the soul, growth of the mind.

  

  Vita Sackville-West
  • Mind
  • Soul
  • Growth

• Keep fighting until the last buzzer sounds.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Fighting
  • Sounds
  • Buzzer

• Making those we love happy sounds innocent as a dove, but it can be as destructive as a lion.

  

  Florida Scott-Maxwell
  • Happy
  • Innocent
  • Sounds

• The difficult thing was deciding what to leave off! I just ultimately tried to strike a balance between what was interesting to hard core fans, and what was exciting to first timers and what I liked.

  

  Marco Adam and the Ants
  • Interesting
  • Balance
  • Difficult

• Sometimes something intrigues me about particular sounds, how they work together, and I think "Okay, I've found something here; I'm going to take it somewhere." And sometimes just to find a name for that sound, whatever it is, ends up becoming a title of the piece or becoming part of the title.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Sounds
  • Title
  • Work Together

• I recognize that no matter how old I get, how many records I've done, or what the public perception of me is, there are still exciting things that I haven't done.

  

  John Baizley Baroness
  • Done
  • Matter
  • Perception

• To truly know what works, you have to learn what doesn't work first.

  

  Chris Brogan
  • Pain
  • Injury
  • Therapy

• What it's like to be a parent: It's one of the hardest things you'll ever do but in exchange it teaches you the meaning of unconditional love.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Love
  • Parent
  • Meaning

• Too many people today on Wall Street go for the quick buck at the expense of their reputation and client satisfaction, the rationale being “let’s make the money while we can and retire early in the sun.” For me, this is not a sprint but a marathon, besides the fact that, in my definition, overnight success is 15 years. Anyone who does not understand the basic tenets of this philosophy is not someone I can or will do business with.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Business
  • Philosophy
  • Reputation

• Mysteries lie all around us, even in the most familiar things, waiting only to be perceived.

  

  Wynn Bullock
  • Things
  • Waiting
  • Photography

• Do you know what the three most exciting sounds in the world are? Anchor chains, airplane motors and train whistles.

  

  George Bailey
  • Exciting
  • Sounds
  • Whistles