Carol Burnett Quotes

Steve Martin in 'All of Me,' when he did that whole thing where he was possessed by the spirit in his body? It was brilliant.

Carol Burnett

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• You have this ability in hip hop to be invincibly cool, and that is a part of G-Eazy.

  

  G-Eazy
  • You
  • Cool
  • Ability

• My main thing is I'm going to compete on every play, try to be focused on both ends of the court. That said, I'll always bring my excitement, my swag, to the game.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Game
  • Said
  • Try

• I always loved advertising. If I hadn't been in fashion, I'd have been in advertising.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Fashion
  • Loved
  • Advertising

• The only thing I regret in life is that I didn't practice basketball more.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Life
  • Practice
  • Basketball

• This story's gonna grab people. It's about this guy, he's crazy about this girl, but he likes to wear dresses. Should he tell her? Should he not tell her? He's torn, Georgie. This is drama.

  

  Ed Wood
  • People
  • Guy
  • Girl

• If I meant that I missed Bochy and Hunter, it's the guys I'd been joking around with most. Hunter is like my brother, and Bochy is like my dad. But at the end of the day, I missed all the guys.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Dad
  • Day
  • Brother

• No doubt about it. For every player. Thursday nights are very tough for us because it is a short turnaround.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Player
  • Doubt
  • Tough

• In the studio, there's no tiptoeing. As opposed to big, blow-out arguments, there are just lots of little solutions.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Blow
  • Just
  • Big

• It's very easy when you have someone in front of you that you can chase. You want to be No. 1 but now I feel like I have to play well because everybody looks at you as a best golfer. So that's why I put more pressure on myself.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Why
  • Play
  • Myself

• I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Long
  • Me
  • Friend

• The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Imagination
  • Spirit
  • Critical

• Usually I start with a beat, I start making a beat, and my producer side is making the beat. And on a good day, my rapper side will jump in and start the writing process - maybe come up with a hook or start a verse. Sometimes it just happens like that. A song like 'Lights Please' happens like that.

  

  J. Cole
  • Up
  • Good
  • Writing

• I grew up outside of Boston in a town called Manchester by the Sea, and we spent our summers in Nantucket.

  

  Nat Faxon
  • Up
  • Sea
  • Outside

• Everyone can write their melodies and chords and pianos and guitars, but what hasn't been discovered yet are tones and textures, and that's very exciting. Probably the No. 1 most important thing in my music is not to sound like anyone else.

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Important
  • Sound

• Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Writing
  • Day
  • Days

• I think traveling made me who I am. When I was 16, I was an exchange student in England, and that was the year that I kind of feel like I was on the road going one direction in life, and it just kind of shifted me over, and I finished high school, and I went traveling for three more years instead of going to college.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Life
  • School
  • High

• I was always pretty good at designing things.

  

  Yves Rossy
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Always

• When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time.

  

  Ouida
  • Life
  • Time
  • Friends

• It is true that a great deal of the rhetoric of the new atheism is often just the confessional rote of materialist fundamentalism (which, like all fundamentalisms, imagines that in fact it represents the side of reason and truth); but it is also true that the new atheism has sprung up in a garden of contending fundamentalisms.

  

  David Bentley
  • Reason
  • Imagine
  • Garden

• Chinese brands will face many obstacles when marketing to Western consumers. Beyond the associations with poor quality and unsound environmental practices, they generally do not have the marketing capabilities or budgets to build powerful global brands.

  

  Nirmalya Kumar
  • Obstacles
  • Brands
  • Budgets

• Cease, cease, wayward Mortal! I dare not unveil The shadows that float o’er Eternity’s vale; Nought waits for the good but a spirit of Love, That will hail their blest advent to regions above. For Love, Mortal, gleams through the gloom of my sway, And the shades which surround me fly fast at its ray.

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Good
  • Fly

• It is easy enough to say, I do not believe in God. For God permits all things to be said of Him with impunity. he looks at our acts. And any breach of His Law carries with it, not its vindictive, but it purifying, compelling punishment.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Law
  • Punishment
  • Believe In God

• If the truth is boring, civilization is irksome. The constraints inherent in civilized living are frustrating in innumerable ways. Yet those with the vision of the anointed often see these constraints as only arbitrary impositions, things from which they-and we all-can be 'liberated.' The social disintegration which has followed in the wake of such liberation has seldom provoked any serious reconsideration of the whole set of assumptions-the vision-which led to such disasters. That vision is too well insulated from feedback.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Serious
  • Vision
  • Boring

• Steve Martin in 'All of Me,' when he did that whole thing where he was possessed by the spirit in his body? It was brilliant.

  

  Carol Burnett