Andrew Pyper Quotes

Monsters just outside our peripheral vision are scarier to contemplate than monsters miles away or in someplace only a fool would set foot in.

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• I do always have a wall up. But I feel by doing it, I keep myself safe.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Up
  • Myself
  • Wall

• Any child knows that history can only be a reduced representation of reality, but it must be a true one, not distorted by queer lenses.

  

  Samuel E. Morison
  • History
  • True
  • Reality

• Reverence the deacons as you would the command of God.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • God
  • You
  • Reverence

• When I was a little kid, I used to watch with my brother when there was Macho Man and Hulk Hogan. But then I fell out of it for a few years.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Man
  • Brother
  • Years

• The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Up
  • Good
  • Friends

• I don't believe in miracles.

  

  Sam Simon
  • Believe
  • Miracles

• You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Mind
  • Identity
  • Find

• There were centuries when civilization had no theater.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Civilization
  • Theater
  • Were

• As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Live
  • Child
  • Loved

• I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • People
  • Think
  • Politics

• We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Up
  • Music
  • Listening

• I remember when I first met Katherine Bigelow for 'Zero Dark Thirty' – actually, we met for another movie, and that never got made, and then she called me and invited me to 'Zero Dark Thirty'.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Remember
  • Movie
  • Actually

• For all their expertise at figuring out how things work, technical people are often painfully aware how much of human behavior is a mystery. People do things for unfathomable reasons. They are opaque even to themselves.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • People
  • Work
  • Mystery

• The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.

  

  Carl Rogers
  • Art
  • Judge
  • Creative

• The only group in America that deserves to scrutinize what we are doing... are parents.

  

  Jack Valenti
  • America
  • Parents
  • Doing

• For me, writing time has always been precious, something I wait for and am eager for and make the best use of. That's probably why I get up so early and have writing time in the quiet dawn hours, when no one needs me.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Up
  • Time
  • Writing

• We need an unambiguous rule - a law - that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Law
  • Stop
  • Will

• You know, if you have a zoo you don't want the other creatures to see you. You want them to hang out and act properly and, you know, when the monkeys will come and ask for the bananas, they won't act like monkeys. If you want them to act on what their true nature is, you've got to leave them alone.

  

  Tarsem Singh
  • True
  • Nature
  • Want

• You need to support human development and human capital as much as possible. And we've had 25 years of programs, great programs. We supported 125,000 surgeries. We fund 15,000 scholarships every year for college and higher education. We gave bicycles for rural areas. We gave laptops.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Great
  • Education
  • Support

• Women are running companies, serving as the human resource director of companies, and helping employees solve problems. Women are doctors, lawyers, teachers, sales managers, marketers. They handle problems in the workplace by day and manage their families by night.

  

  Marsha Blackburn
  • Women
  • Night
  • Running

• If you look at the better teams in the league when they get a team down they finish out the game. That's kind of what separates us from those teams right now is playing 48-minute games.

  

  Udonis Haslem
  • Game
  • League
  • Teams

• We had an awesome locker room of girls, and I'm honored to have shared a locker room with all those girls.

  

  Amy Dumas
  • Girls
  • Shared
  • Locker Room

• Monsters just outside our peripheral vision are scarier to contemplate than monsters miles away or in someplace only a fool would set foot in.

  

  Andrew Pyper
  • Vision
  • Fool