Andy Taylor Quotes

The five of us don't know how to exist in any other way. We are an ambitious bunch, I guess.

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• As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • World
  • True
  • Celebrity

• Everything always looked better in black and white. Everything always looked as if it were the first time; there's always more people in a black and white photograph. It just makes it seem that there were more people at a gig, more people at a football match, than with colour photography. Everything looks more exciting.

  

  Jack Lowden
  • People
  • Time
  • Black

• If there is something I am arguing, it is a critique of science. Science has consistently denied the existence of consciousness other than human. Only in the last 20 years do we have acknowledgement of animal feeling or culture or experience.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Experience
  • Science
  • Culture

• I am in that glorious position where I can redesign and re-package my own work.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Work
  • Position
  • Redesign

• Me and my dad are kind of distant since my mom and him separated.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Me
  • Dad
  • Kind

• I'm the worst employee in the world. I'll cheat and steal time and resources from my employer, although I'll con everybody into believing I'm essential to the operation.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Time
  • World
  • Employer

• A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.

  

  Ovid
  • Prince
  • Reward
  • Slow

• In March 1950, in New York City, I was married to Marietta Soffer. We have three children: Vilhelm, Tomas, and Margrethe.

  

  Aage Bohr
  • Children
  • City
  • New York

• I think hitting's just repetition. The more you hit, the better you're gonna get.

  

  Vernon Wells
  • Think
  • Better
  • Repetition

• Well, it's a humor strip, so my first responsibility has always been to entertain the reader... But if, in addition, I can help move readers to thought and judgment about issues that concern me, so much the better.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Help
  • Responsibility
  • Humor

• I am so honored to be named as one of Time's 100 most influential people.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • People
  • Times
  • Honored

• There are people who've enjoyed my work in the theater, and they let me know that it was special for them. I'm not going to say, 'Well, you should have seen me as Gandalf!'

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Work
  • Theater

• I ended up working in Michigan for a young company called Sycor out of Michigan, worked there, and that company got bought by Northern Telecom. We became the Bell Northern Research Labs of Northern Telecom.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • Up
  • Young
  • Company

• The Tour (de France) is essentially a math problem, a 2,000-mile race over three weeks that's sometimes won by a margin of a minute or less. How do you propel yourself through space on a bicycle, sometimes steeply uphill, at a speed sustainable for three weeks? Every second counts.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Space
  • Math

• What is government but an arrangement by which the many accept the authority of the few?

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman

• Saint, n. A dead sinner, revised and edited.

  

  Ambrose Bierce

• My mother was a wonderful, wonderful woman with a lovely voice who hated housework, hated cooking even more and loved her children. She was always arranging church activities such as a bazaar.

  

  Maureen Forrester
  • Children
  • She
  • Mother

• Don't just rehash what came before. Find new things to do with it, in your unique voice.

  

  Brian Keene
  • Unique

• Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.

  

  Mark Twain
  • People
  • Men
  • Earth

• In Jiu-Jitsu, every instinct you have wants to do everything but relax or breathe when someone's attacking you, and learning that takes a long time. I think that's why a lot of people stop at blue belt because it's really hard to do. It's hard to take that next step. It took me a long time.

  

  Clark Gregg
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.

  

  George A. Moore
  • Art
  • Beginning

• The most dangerous thing is a bored teenager. They have the stigma of being Indigenous, Aboriginal, and all the trappings that come with it. The connection does come a lot more from those kids, desert or not. They're stepping out into the world.

  

  Warwick Thornton
  • World
  • Kids
  • Teenager

• The five of us don't know how to exist in any other way. We are an ambitious bunch, I guess.

  

  Andy Taylor Duran Duran