Barton Gellman Quotes
I don't think Cheney started off in 2000 with a burning desire to become vice-president. I think the prospect gradually became more appealing, and he goosed the process.
Quotes to Explore
-
It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.
-
Arthur Conan Doyle was entranced by the notion of a brilliant detective who can deduce everything a stranger has been up to from the merest clue, and yet can't have a trusting relationship with his closest friend.
-
Thanks to 'A Prophet,' I'm known in a lot of countries.
-
You know, it's hard sometimes to just detach yourself from what you're doing.
-
With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I'm going to press on for equality. I'm going to press on for the sake of our children. I'm going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I am going to press on.
-
Life is made up of marble and mud.
-
Your genome knows much more about your medical history than you do.
-
I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.
-
I am a crazy Maverick fan. I would go there if Dallas was a great entertainment center.
-
If you're not kind, then you won't be attractive to me personally because that spirit shines through and makes people attractive.
-
I lost 'The X Factor,' and I lost 'Deal or No Deal' twice. I'm good at losing game shows.
-
I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, because my sins were a hindrance to me.
-
I believe in luck. My luck's real streaky.
-
I am a hopeless romantic who falls in lust and gets in trouble. I love my work and am very productive, yet I always find time to play.
-
Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?
-
My goal is to make people feel passionately, if it's negative or positive, I did my job.
-
People look at me as sort of a diplomat for Turkey, which by nature, I'm not; I don't want to be. It's again about that playfulness. Being Turkey's voice or representative is not playful, it's not childlike; it makes me self-conscious, kills the child in me.
-
I think I am one of the smallest surviving brands.
-
Tourette's is involuntary in that it is impossible not to do. And it's torture to know what you're doing and not be able to stop it.
-
I got a telegraph from my mother who said that my step-father had had a heart attack, come home and earn a living. So I went back to England and the only thing I knew to earn any cash was through hairdressing.
-
Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.
-
I've been fascinated by Machiavelli since I was very young. I've always felt that he had a bad rap from history, and that he was actually a person quite unlike what we now think of as Machiavellian. He was a republican. He disliked totalitarian government.
-
I let previous instances creep up in my thought process sometimes. I think that's where things go awry, and that's where the walks come in. I'm not giving up many hits, just putting them on base for free.
-
I don't think Cheney started off in 2000 with a burning desire to become vice-president. I think the prospect gradually became more appealing, and he goosed the process.
