Alec Waugh Quotes

To be excited and at the same time satisfied; to desire and possess -that has been described somewhere as the wise man's idea of heaven.

Alec Waugh

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• Flying down a tunnel of 1s and 0s is not how hacking is really done.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Done
  • Flying
  • Down

• I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Me
  • Try
  • Boring

• When I was in my early 20s, I studied tae kwon do and hapkido. I earned brown belts in both of them.

  

  Karen Bass
  • Early
  • Brown
  • Earned

• Normally, when congee is served, the different condiments and garnishes are placed in little bowls on the side so diners can make their own personal creations.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Different
  • Own
  • Personal

• All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Bad

• An actor has to embody a role.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • Actor
  • Role
  • Embody

• Comedians do movies and TV so that when they tour, they sell out. That's the goal: To get popular enough so the place is packed.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Goal
  • Enough
  • Popular

• Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Band
  • Thought
  • Years

• Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • May
  • Society
  • Simple

• If you're CEO of a company, you have to be a public person. You're speaking to the press, you're speaking to investors, you're speaking to employees, you're the public face of the company and so kind of naturally you become more extroverted, more outwards facing.

  

  Fabrice Grinda
  • Kind
  • Company
  • Employees

• I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• I don't sit and write stand-up material; I come up with an idea onstage.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Up
  • Idea
  • Write

• It has been extraordinary, wonderful, I've been three feet off the ground since I made that first record.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • First
  • Feet
  • Three

• My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Guitar
  • Trees
  • Grandfather

• The Law of God in the Christian religion is the schoolmaster that leads us to Christ.

  

  Randall Terry
  • God
  • Law
  • Christian

• The experts who managed the original Marshall Plan say Afghanistan needs a commitment of at least $5 to $10 billion over 5 to 10 years, coupled with occupation forces of 250,000 Allied soldiers to keep the peace throughout the country.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Country
  • Peace
  • Commitment

• It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.

  

  Edouard Manet
  • Science
  • Feeling
  • Imagination

• I think it's not really difficult to write about love. We've been saying the same thing over and over for so many years. But it depends on how honest it is and how good you make it feel. You can say 'I love you' in a trillion ways, and it can always sound different or feel different.

  

  Babyface
  • Good
  • Different
  • Love

• I never set out to be an actor. Again, my mother presented this job by job to me at the time, and if it sounded fun, I would say yes and if it didn't, I would say no. I always knew, since I was 7 or 8 years old, that it was a means to an end and that I wanted to go to college.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Time
  • Job
  • Fun

• I've made a career writing about fictitious anti-heroes. To create these worlds, I've spent a lot of time with active members on both sides of the law. And if I had to pick the most interesting of the two, the choice is obvious - we all love the guys in black.

  

  Kurt Sutter
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Career

• Beyond its romance, 'Titanic' offers an indelibly wrenching story of blind arrogance and its terrible consequences. It's the rare Hollywood adventure film that brings mythic images of tragedy - the fall of Icarus, the ruin of Ozymandias - so easily to mind.

  

  Janet Maslin
  • Mind
  • Fall
  • Adventure

• If you go to Minnesota in January, you should know that it's gonna be cold. You don't panic when the thermometer falls below zero.

  

  Peter Lynch
  • Cold

• I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Life
  • Book
  • Myself

• To be excited and at the same time satisfied; to desire and possess -that has been described somewhere as the wise man's idea of heaven.

  

  Alec Waugh
  • Time
  • Desire
  • Heaven