George Meade Quotes

War is very uncertain in its results, and often when affairs look most desperate they suddenly assume a more hopeful state.

George Meade

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• I'm too self-serious for a comedy.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Comedy
  • Serious
  • Too

• About three months before a contest, I drink a lot of water. I start to drink a lot of water.

  

  Takeru Kobayashi
  • Water
  • Start
  • Drink

• The first time I thought I should be an actor was in school. I thought, 'At least this is something for which I won't have to study.' But I've realised that an actor needs to be constantly unsure about what he's doing and about what's going on around him. The moment you think you've nailed it, you're dead.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Time
  • School
  • Study

• Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Thought
  • Pleasure
  • Labor

• I invented animals and birds – I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat down and just for fun wrote two dozen poems to accompany the drawings. It was for no one to every see, but a friend sent me in to an editor.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Fun
  • Friend
  • Working

• I've always had a complicated relationship with sleep. Even as a little kid, I never wanted to go to bed - it always seemed unfair in some way.

  

  K. Flay
  • Relationship
  • Sleep
  • Never

• I feel very much satisfied to play in Baltimore.

  

  Vic Willis
  • Play
  • Feel
  • Satisfied

• I feel happy to terrify kids.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Kids
  • Happy
  • Feel

• ... I just know that, right now, … the biggest record selling business there is is rock and roll.

  

  Elvis Presley
  • Business
  • Rock

• I don't believe in Apocalypses. I believe in Apocatastases. I think it may be the title for The Film. It's a bitch to pronounce, and no-one knows what it means, but otherwise it's a great title.

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • Great
  • Believe
  • May

• I applaud women, and I did my best and took my time after having a kid - in a healthy way, get back to a place where I felt good in my body.

  

  Jennifer Nettles Sugarland
  • Time
  • Good
  • Women

• I love fashion, beauty, glamour. It's the mark of civilisation.

  

  David LaChapelle
  • Fashion

• For success, the author must make the reader care about the destiny of the principals, and sustain this anxiety, or suspense, for about 100,000 words.

  

  Ken Follett
  • Success
  • Words
  • Destiny

• There's people who I admire like... Dr. Dre, Puff Daddy, Master P, people who built their stuff and are still going.

  

  Wiz Khalifa
  • People

• Actors put ourselves in awkward positions all the time.

  

  Charlie Day
  • Time

• You go from Olympic wrestling into pro wrestling, and it's a very difficult transition, but if you make it, you can earn a great living while at the same time giving amateur wrestling a lot of exposure by being on TV every week. Fans know where you came from.

  

  Kurt Angle
  • Time
  • Great
  • Giving

• Lauren Bacall, James Garner, and Jack Lemmon - they're all gone now, but I was so impressed by them.

  

  John Heard

• I'm practical. I see something, and I do it.

  

  China Machado

• 'This husband of yours, he’d rather have his wife a- Rather, have her-' Halyard cleared his throat- 'than go into public relations?''I’m proud to say,' said the girl, 'that he’s one of the few men on earth with a little self-respect left.'

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • Men
  • Girl
  • Earth

• Because we all share an identical need for love, it is possible to feel that anybody we meet, in whatever circumstances, is a brother or sister.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Brother
  • Sister

• Yes, what has happened is we have moved from responding to these terrorist attacks as acts of civil disobedience to getting to the point after September 11 that we said, no, this is not just civil disobedience, this is an act of war.

  

  Marsha Blackburn
  • War
  • September

• I did have a life before the Animals, and I'm trying constantly to prove that I have a life after the Animals. People tend to forget that I was the frontman with War for two years. People sort of have compartmental memories.

  

  Eric Burdon
  • People
  • Life
  • Trying

• War is very uncertain in its results, and often when affairs look most desperate they suddenly assume a more hopeful state.

  

  George Meade
  • War
  • Results
  • State