Lindsay Wagner Quotes

I did the 'Bionic Woman,' which of course had a lot of humor in it, and that was really a function of a lot of the ad-libbing and the things that I did in it.

Lindsay Wagner

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• Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized.

  

  Daniel Burnham
  • Men
  • Magic
  • Blood

• My grandfather was an autoworker, and I have a weapon he manufactured to protect himself from the company that he would carry to work. It's a big iron pipe with a hunk of lead on the head. I think about how far we've come as companies from those days, where workers had to protect themselves from the company.

  

  Larry Page
  • Work
  • Think
  • Grandfather

• Most things I get hired on, I get hired because I improvise something funny, or they just think I look weird.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Think
  • Funny
  • Weird

• Conservatives were sure that if you eliminated welfare for single moms, it would eliminate - or at lease greatly reduce - single motherhood. So in 1996 we had welfare reform. Did not change the trend in the least. Soon half of all babies will be born out of wedlock.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Change
  • Single
  • Motherhood

• I have to give importance to my personal life, my family, parents, and sisters. I hope I can strike the right balance.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Life
  • Family
  • Hope

• If I don't know I don't know, I think I know. If I don't know I know, I think I don't know.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Think
  • Know
  • I Think

• I have considered rap music stars, and there is one in my new book, Lovers and Players, and there is also a hip-hop music mogul who I think you will like a lot.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • Music
  • Book
  • Stars

• But having set myself these goals, I had to work really hard to achieve them.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Work
  • Myself
  • Goals

• Every once in a while, someone will mail me a single popcorn kernel that didn't pop. I'll get out a fresh kernel, tape it to a piece of paper and mail it back to them.

  

  Orville Redenbacher
  • Me
  • Single
  • Popcorn

• Ever since Modi became prime minister, he has given a free rein to his ministers and BJP functionaries to create an environment of communal tension and violence.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Free
  • Environment
  • Violence

• Occasionally I write a small piece or the odd lecture in English, and I teach in English, but my fiction is always written in German.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Small
  • English
  • Teach

• A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • People
  • Nothing
  • Meeting

• Passivity can be a provoking modus operandi;Consider the Empire and Gandhi.

  

  Ogden Nash

• The unit of significance in the poem is not the word but the phrase or sentence...a poet should consider the effect of the whole poem, not its local felicities.

  

  T. E. Hulme

• Life's errors cry for the merciful beauty that can modulate their isolation into a harmony with the whole.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Life

• In limitations he first shows himself the master,And the law can only bring us freedom.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Freedom
  • Law

• A world without love would be no world.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • World

• The ball of snow when, as it rolls, it descends from the snowy mountains, increases in size as it falls.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Snow

• The idea is to take the most ordinary things and make them extraordinary, as Gerard Manley Hopkins does in his poems.

  

  Alfonso A. Ossorio

• We want to encourage a world of creators, of inventors, of contributors. Because this world that we live in, this interactive world, is ours.

  

  Ayah Bdeir
  • World
  • Creators
  • Inventors

• I believe that we have been doing this not primarily to achieve riches or even honour, but rather because we were interested in the work, enjoyed doing it and felt very strongly that it was worthwhile.

  

  Frederick Sanger
  • Work
  • Believe

• You can learn by listening, or by getting whacked between the eyes with a two-by-four. I always found listening easier.

  

  S. M. Stirling
  • Eyes
  • Listening
  • Eye

• I did the 'Bionic Woman,' which of course had a lot of humor in it, and that was really a function of a lot of the ad-libbing and the things that I did in it.

  

  Lindsay Wagner