Tones and I (Toni Watson) Quotes

I'm scared of being a one-hit wonder because my second single has set the bar too high.

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• I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Time
  • Science
  • Past

• I am writing a book called 'The History of Australia in Hundred Objects.' It's of things we have invented in Australia. And you know, some of them are amazing. We invented the clapper boards used in films. We invented those cranes - those big long cranes used on construction sites.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Writing
  • Book
  • History

• On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer. There is much public anger about banks and it is well deserved.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Achieve
  • Anger
  • Apology

• In a way, it's good not to be recognised as much off screen.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • Good
  • Way
  • Screen

• I think people really need to think what it's like to have all of society arrayed against you.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Think
  • Society

• Naw, it - it never stops, man... You gotta be doing what you're supposed to be doing - whenever, however it's coming down, you know. If you're getting your butt kicked - you still gotta do what you gotta be doing.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Man
  • Know
  • Doing

• Actively deciding to give to causes that move you deeply is far more fulfilling than the momentary gratification derived from signing a check and mailing it to a nonprofit about which you know little more than what's on the brochure they sent you.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • You
  • Know
  • Nonprofit

• Every year in consulting is like three years in the corporate world because you have multiple clients, multiple issues - you grow so much.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • World
  • Year
  • Grow

• We need to quit arguing about whether the glass is half full or half empty - and instead acknowledge that there's not quite enough water to go around.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Water
  • Enough
  • Quit

• The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Greatest
  • Delight
  • Woods

• I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Me
  • Look
  • Expensive

• I never bought the excuse of not having time to write. If you really want to do it, you're either going to find those hours or eventually decide not to be a writer.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Time
  • Want
  • Find

• The moral landscape is the framework I use for thinking about questions of morality and human values in universal terms.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Thinking
  • Moral
  • Values

• I don't think that left to its own devices, capitalism moves along smoothly and everyone gets treated fairly in the process. Capitalism is like a child: if you want the child to grow up free and productive, somebody's got to look over the shoulder of that child.

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • Up
  • Free
  • Child

• ISIS is on the offense, with the ability to attack at will, anyplace, anytime.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Ability
  • Will
  • Attack

• I have been shocked at the number of people who don't watch television.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Television
  • Watch

• We book our exports forward for more than a year, and so we have a fixed rate. We do not get the spot rate that we see in the market every day.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Book
  • Day
  • Everyday

• A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Painting
  • Creative
  • Soup

• When I read comics, they were dense stories. When you put them down, there was a sense of having gotten a great deal from them.

  

  Christopher Priest
  • Great

• The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.

  

  Aaron Burr
  • Life
  • Business
  • My Life

• Chivalry!-why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection-the stay of the oppressed, the redresser of grievances, the curb of the power of the tyrant-Nobility were but an empty name without her, and liberty finds the best protection in her lance and her sword.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Why
  • She
  • Power

• My very first professional job was a cartoon, doing voices for the Mr. T cartoon in high school.

  

  Phil LaMarr
  • School
  • Job
  • High

• I started bowling when I was 14, my freshman year in high school.

  

  Joseph Arrington, Jr.
  • School
  • High

• I'm scared of being a one-hit wonder because my second single has set the bar too high.

  

  Tones and I
  • High
  • Single
  • Scared