George Will Quotes

There is an aura of changelessness to sport. There is the flux of competition, but it occurs within the ordering confinement of clear rules.

George Will

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• Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Black
  • Popular
  • New

• I had two sisters carried away in a chain-gang - one of them left two children. We were always uneasy.

  

  Harriet Tubman
  • Children
  • Always
  • Two

• Nothing exists except through language.

  

  Hans-Georg Gadamer
  • Language
  • Nothing
  • Through

• Decolonisation seems to have dented little the sense of superiority that since 1945 has made American leaders in particular consistently underestimate the intensity of nationalist feeling in Asia and Africa.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • American
  • Feeling
  • Intensity

• Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, you can't do anything else. You're in the space you're in. So, in that way, it's enormously centering and restorative.

  

  Tabitha King
  • Writing
  • Space
  • Process

• I conduct business, not dependent of public sentiment, but according to the rules of fair business.

  

  Victor Pinchuk
  • Business
  • Rules
  • Fair

• The child in you, like all children, loves to laugh, to be around people who can laugh at themselves and life. Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
  • Life
  • Children

• I like Pirate's Booty. Prunes and olives, too. I love hummus. I can eat that until I die. I tend to eat mostly organic food.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Love
  • Food
  • Die

• When I say things that sound insane, like only the smartest million people should have the right to vote, well, I mean that.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • People
  • Sound
  • Vote

• The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • Blessing
  • Modern
  • Greatest

• To be feminist doesn't mean you can't be submissive.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • You
  • Mean
  • Feminist

• My road to publishing actually came through a colleague who connected me to my agent, and the faculty at Cornell was very supportive.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Road
  • Supportive
  • Agent

• I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Man
  • Hate
  • Kind

• You know Chuck, Buddy, and Elvis paved the roadThe roots are deep inside usIt's the rhythm in our soul.

  

  Brian Wilson
  • Soul
  • Deep

• I like to think I've done a lot of different kinds of roles, but obviously I have done quite a lot of comedies.

  

  Luke Wilson
  • Different
  • Done

• I remember my first show was a live TV show in Ireland, and I was just petrified. It was horrific.

  

  Caroline Corr
  • Live
  • Remember

• I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

  

  Booker T. Washington
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Success

• My songs lie somewhere in between the evergreen standards, rock n' roll and pop.

  

  Neil Sedaka
  • Rock

• While the agreement provides a level of constraint on Iran's nuclear weapons program, it confers legitimacy on their nuclear threshold status, an unprecedented shift for a country with so many entanglements.

  

  Jeff Fortenberry
  • Country

• True love is not a strong, fiery, impetuous passion. It is, on the contrary, an element calm and deep. It looks beyond mere externals, and is attracted by qualities alone. It is wise and discriminating, and its devotion is real and abiding.

  

  Ellen G. White
  • Real
  • True
  • Strong

• You can't merge six banks and think that nothing will happen.

  

  Arundhati Bhattacharya

• I'm all about showing people that I'm a little messed up, I have a lot of the same problems you have. By exposing myself and putting myself out there, people can relate to me and my act won't grow stale. I mean, nobody wants to hear a comedian say, 'Life is great.'

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• There is an aura of changelessness to sport. There is the flux of competition, but it occurs within the ordering confinement of clear rules.

  

  George Will
  • Sports
  • Competition
  • Auras