J. H. Wyman Quotes
So, I can live with people saying, "I didn't like it." But I can't live with people saying, "There just seems to be no plan here," 'cause there is a plan. And a lot of people fall into that, where they don't know what their show is yet. Their pilot gets picked up, and they have to figure it out. I would hate to be in that situation.
Quotes to Explore
-
Everyone romanticizes somebody.
-
My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.
-
Both World War II and the subsequent Cold War gave America's involvement in world affairs a clear focus. The objectives of foreign policy were relatively easy to define, and they could be imbued with high moral content.
-
Your body is your temple, it's your home, and you must decorate it.
-
I think that a lot of women that know they're going to be part of history somehow decide to have a character to be remembered by.
-
I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
-
The lesson of 'CSI' is: No matter what horrible things happen, nice policemen will turn up and fix everything and return it to the status quo.
-
When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scientific American.' It's fascinating.
-
In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs.
-
Reverence is fatal to literature.
-
The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
-
I firmly believe that the mission of religion in the 21st century must be to contribute concretely to the peaceful coexistence of humankind.
-
Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.
-
I liked English and art and did a lot of painting. And for some reason I was good at math, but I wasn't an A student. I really had to work hard to get good grades.
-
I'm free - but I'm also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. A filmmaker can only do a little.
-
People should have literary and cultural taste and should not bomb hotels.
-
When you know that people know who you are, you are always working - and not the work you want to do. You are sort of performing, because you know they are looking - or at least glancing - at you.
-
There has got to be more to life than being a really, really, ridiculously good actor.
-
The Hungarian people voted for NATO membership. We are active in the joint actions of NATO.
-
The comic novels I did when I was in my 20s had a harder edge - less sympathy for people. Or a sympathy that was harder to detect: Characters' foibles and obsessive bents were unrelenting, like caricatures.
-
When the most important things in our life happen we quite often do not know, at the moment, what is going on. A man does not always say to himself, "hullo! i'm growing up." It is only when he looks back that he realises what has happened and recognises it as what people call "growing up.
-
When I was a child and came with my elders to Galway for their salmon fishing in the river that rushes past the gaol, I used to look with awe at the window where men were hung, and the dark, closed gate.
-
I know plenty of entrepreneurs who are numbers first. They tend to be highly analytical people, and before they pull the trigger, all the numbers have to line up just right.
-
So, I can live with people saying, "I didn't like it." But I can't live with people saying, "There just seems to be no plan here," 'cause there is a plan. And a lot of people fall into that, where they don't know what their show is yet. Their pilot gets picked up, and they have to figure it out. I would hate to be in that situation.
