George L. Carlson Quotes
Working from photos makes you a little more analytical, a little more cerebral, because you're less connected to the intensity of life.
Quotes to Explore
-
Fulfilling your mission is one thing; vision is another, and having a commitment to something leads you to do better work.
-
If you want your children to bring original ideas into the world, you need to let them pursue their passions, not yours.
-
I don't worry about great visuals that they showed that weren't actually running on real hardware. It doesn't matter. Gamers don't make their purchase decisions based on movies that were shown in May for products that come out in March.
-
Well, Warren Harding, I have got you the presidency. What are you going to do with it?
-
You always end up saying and doing such horrible things to your family, 'cause you know they're never going anywhere, and at some point, they're going to forgive you.
-
It never became an obsession for me to score at all costs. I've always said that I'm not a big scorer, I'm a worker.
-
I am definitely a serial monogamist. I can count on one hand the number of guys I've been with.
-
A lot of comedians are selfish.
-
Most of all, I want to thank you for all the generous advance coverage you've given me in anticipation of a successful career. When I actually do something, we'll let you know.
-
Every time I think that I am getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.
-
Particle physicists may freeze a second, open it up, and explore its dappled contents like surgeons pawing through an abdomen, but in real life, when events occur within thousandths of a second, our minds cannot distinguish past from future.
-
It's unrealistic not to be able to indulge.
-
Democratic strategists and operatives should not design a strategy based off today's conditions. They should be setting a strategy for where the trajectory of polling is headed.
-
Goofy was the word that was used most often by my sisters because I've been this tall ever since I was 12 years old.
-
Cholera is even more severe among populations who are immunologically naive.
-
I mean, we're going to probably debate the Iraq war for at least as long as I'm alive.
-
'Yes we can' always struck many as a naive and childish chant, like something ripped off from the Camp Fire Girls.
-
I have anxiety.
-
If there's a fire, I want to be there. Maybe because in being so close to death, I think I understand what it means to be truly alive.
-
I did a lot of ridiculous television. Between 1980 and '85 I had no confidence, so I did everything I was told to do.
-
I think one of the great things about the United States has been our ability to maintain a distinction between our military and domestic law enforcement.
-
For most affairs, this eventually becomes the most fundamental of questions, the only one that matters: Do we love each other more than the lives we already have? It is the question that hovers in the background of every secret phone call, flavors every tryst with the head of possibilities of apocalypse and renewal; and it is the answer to that question, or the lack thereof, that so often dooms an affair to failure.
-
That $27,000 that a young player will now get just for making the main draw at the Australian Open is huge. It can set them up for a couple of months which at that level you really do need that kind of help. It sounds like a lot of money, but when you're travelling the world trying to make it as a tennis player, it doesn't last long.
-
Working from photos makes you a little more analytical, a little more cerebral, because you're less connected to the intensity of life.
