T. Boone Pickens (Thomas Boone Pickens Jr.) Quotes

I know what people say, that water's a lot like air. Do you charge for air? Well, of course not. Well, you shouldn't charge for water. Okay, watch what happens you won't have any water

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• A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • Ideas
  • More
  • Patterns

• The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Up
  • World
  • Community

• It sounds kind of stupid, but I've never not wanted to be a musician. It's been inside me since I was little so I don't know what else I would do.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • Know
  • Me
  • Stupid

• If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Women
  • Woman
  • Year

• If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Life
  • Work
  • Day

• Just being the seeker, somebody whose open to spiritual enlightenment, is in itself the important thing and it's the reward for being a seeker in this world.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • World
  • Important
  • Spiritual

• My great-grandchildren will not be able to enjoy the Gulf Coast of Louisiana the way I have.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Great
  • Way
  • Enjoy

• The classic, 'Romeo and Juliet,' for me, is the iconic story of young love.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Love
  • Story
  • Young

• I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Think
  • Always
  • Majority

• When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Men
  • Attention
  • Simple

• I've worked hard throughout my entire life, but I don't think all the hard work could have produced the same results without all the genetics I was given.

  

  Odell Beckham, Jr.
  • Life
  • Work
  • Hard Work

• We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • People
  • Think
  • Marriage

• I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Music
  • Believe
  • American

• A Commander-in-Chief needs to do two things. One - tell us who the enemy is. And two - say we are fighting to win.

  

  Oliver North
  • Fighting
  • Enemy
  • Win

• Through this experience we have been warned - learn everything, don't forget anything!

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • Experience
  • Learn
  • Forget

• When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • Society
  • Very
  • Dignity

• The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • Truth
  • American
  • America

• I never dreamt, in my dream, I'm Dalai Lama.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Dream
  • Never
  • Dalai Lama

• I don't drink coffee.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Coffee
  • Drink
  • Drink Coffee

• I'm here for the long-term, that's for sure. I think this championship is growing massively. It's only going to get more and more interesting.

  

  Jean-Eric Vergne
  • Long
  • Interesting
  • Growing

• Can you nominate in order now the degrees of the lie? I will name you the degrees. The first, the Retort Courteous; the second, the Quip Modest; the third, the Reply Churlish; the fourth, the Reproof Valiant; the fifth; the Countercheck Quarrelsome; the sixth, the Lie with Circumstance; the seventh, the Lie Direct. All these you may avoid but the Lie Direct; and you may avoid that too, with an If. . . . Your If is the only peace-maker; much virtue in If.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Peace
  • Lying
  • Virtue

• Never give up on your dream... because you never know what the Lord can bless you with.

  

  Kelly Rowland Destiny's Child
  • Up
  • Dream

• People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

  

  Martin Luther
  • People

• I know what people say, that water's a lot like air. Do you charge for air? Well, of course not. Well, you shouldn't charge for water. Okay, watch what happens you won't have any water

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • People
  • Water
  • Air