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.

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• There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Genius
  • Insanity
  • Line

• 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

• It's nice to film in somewhere that you actually love being. Usually, you're in a studio for months on end, and you never see any daylight, so you really make the most of it.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Love
  • Nice
  • End

• 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
  • Faculty

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

  

  Orson Welles
  • Man
  • Hate
  • Kind

• Mumbai's infectious. Once you start living in Mumbai, working in Mumbai, I don't think you can live anywhere else.

  

  Yash Chopra
  • Live
  • Think
  • Start

• 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

• People have a right to violence, to rebel, to fight back.

  

  Yuri Kochiyama
  • People
  • Violence
  • Fight

• I signed up to be a musician, I want to perform, I want to sing.

  

  Bruno Mars
  • Up

• You need a great idea, but then you've got to carry it through. If you get it right, you're going to be a critical success. But not everyone who works hard gets it right, or has the success they deserve: there's an element of luck.

  

  Ian Rankin
  • Great
  • Success
  • Luck

• Ever since I was a child I always wanted to be WWE Champion. I've been in love with sports-entertainment for my entire life, and I always wanted to do that.

  

  David Otunga
  • Life
  • Sports
  • Champion

• When one can do better than everyone else in the same walk, one does not make any very painful exertions to outdo oneself. The progress of improvement ceases nearly at the point where competition ends.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Progress
  • Competition
  • Improvement

• 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