Ted Williams Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't think the federal government has any business keeping a list of law-abiding Americans who exercise their constitutional right to keep and bear arms.
-
There's an interesting contrast between born Catholics and converts. Converts are often much more rule-directed. Catholicism isn't something that they breathed in from their childhood, so they think that if you don't toe the line on abstract doctrine you can't be part of the Church.
-
Lately, I've been doing a lot of tuning in and impatiently tuning out. As a longtime fan of talk radio, I don't think this bodes well for the long-term broad appeal of the medium.
-
I think that as you get older, you become aware of everything that could go wrong.
-
Stuffed vine leaves tend to burn and/or stick when you cook them. To avoid this, use a heavy based pan lined with a few layers of second-rate leaves.
-
Back in the day, when the D.J. would be playing a record, I'd be on the mic trying to hype up the crowd. So once Public Enemy became a rap group, I decided that that's the role that I wanted to take on. I wanted to be the one that was hyping, because I've always been good at it. I can hype up any crowd.
-
I've had those people very interested in my writing. Since I think of myself as a composer, I feel really good. I've had lots of guys call me up. I've gotten two or three commissions to write things. I've written lots of movie scores.
-
Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
-
When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
-
I try to choose the projects that I think are the most well-written and well-executed, and the rest of it is so beyond my control to be almost not worth thinking about at all.
-
I think I've become more modest as the years have gone on.
-
When the divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low.
-
Well, you can't argue with somebody that won't argue back.
-
It's important to have good tunes, but words are the thing for me.
-
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
-
You have to be an optimist, right? You have to be critical, then you have to be an optimist. Or else you're really stupid.
-
I'm just observing. I don't ever want people to think I'm preaching at them or wearing them out.
-
My last two records that I made were both quite pointed in one direction and I think I do my best stuff when it's all over the map, when there's a couple traditional things, a couple pretty rocking things.
-
I was a rapper and a DJ, and if you wanted to be involved in hip-hop, you had to be involved in the sonic, the kinetic and the visual aspects. The visual was graffiti.
-
Star Trek has brought so much of what I want within my grasp.
-
Pluris est oculatus testis unus, quam auriti decem. Qui audiunt, audita dicunt: qui vident, plane sciunt.
-
When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball, I can only marvel at the many black players who stuck it out for years in the Jim Crow leagues because they had nowhere else to go.
-
Medieval and ancient sensibility now dominates our time as acoustic and multisensory awareness displaces the merely visual.
-
If you don't think too good, don't think too much.
