Bobby Darin Quotes

I drilled holes in the floor of the club, and it's sinking.

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• I live in Europe and care about democracy and sovereignty of nation states there.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Live
  • Democracy
  • Care

• Grease and starch just always win over protein. In food as in so many things. Look around you, that's what our whole country is based on. It's amazing that Michael Jordan can be an iconic figure because he's basically just protein.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Country
  • Food
  • Amazing

• Writers write for one reason: to create an emotion in the reader, to reach across and make them feel something. You want a reaction. Yeah, it's nicer when the reaction is to throw flowers than it is to throw brickbats, but you have to accept both equally.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Want
  • Emotion
  • Flowers

• When I watch a romantic comedy, I feel like they're selling something that doesn't exist. Two beautiful, but extremely unpleasant, people are terrible to each other for an hour, accidentally kiss, then decide to like each other during an extremely vague montage. That isn't how people fall in love.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Feel

• As far as Raman Raghav is concerned, he is ruthless.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Far
  • Ruthless
  • As Far As

• I was sued by a woman who claimed that she became pregnant because she watched me on television and I bent her contraceptive coil.

  

  Uri Geller
  • She
  • Me
  • Woman

• I believe that in this world it is impossible to understand God.

  

  Pat Buckley
  • World
  • God
  • Believe

• I grew up on a tiny little island.

  

  Samantha Barks
  • Up
  • Little
  • Island

• Kids will come into my boxing gym with no discipline, and then you teach them how to focus and love what they're doing, which then travels outside into their home and work life.

  

  Tamer Hassan
  • Life
  • Home
  • Kids

• Fortunately, I'm married to someone who's a pretty excellent parent!

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Pretty
  • Parent
  • Someone

• If I have a feeling of not trusting, I don't get too close.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Feeling
  • Close
  • Too

• Enlightenment values of individual freedom are manifested best in individual acts of criticism and defiance.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Freedom
  • Best
  • Criticism

• But TV has changed completely. It's not until you come into people's homes that everyone says, 'You're a success now.'

  

  Gabriel Mann
  • People
  • Success
  • Now

• Our morality is based on so many factors: of where we were born, who we were born to, what values were instilled in us, what values we chose, the way that our lives have shaped us. That dictates so much of what we assume is our morality, and also the culture, all of these things.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Culture
  • Values
  • Morality

• Specialized management courses are useful but should come well after the complexity of management and business are understood.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Business
  • Management
  • Useful

• It animal research is immoral even if it's essential.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Animal

• Potius sero quam nunquam.

  

  Livy

• Sometimes we try to justify this unsavory business on the cynical ground that by rationing out the means of violence we can somehow control the world’s violence. The fact is that we cannot have it both ways. Can we be both the world’s leading champion of peace and the world’s leading supplier of the weapons of war?

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • World
  • Business
  • War

• I'm as much influenced by Joseph Smith and the Mormons as I am, more so, than by Eliot. Actually, I'm much more influenced by the poetry of the Mormons.

  

  Marguerite Young
  • Poetry

• I've always had a quirky way of looking at things. It's my coping mechanism.

  

  Sherri Shepherd
  • Way
  • Mechanism
  • Looking

• I gave my life to the Group Theatre, because in it I'm building something for myself. What I build, I am.

  

  Elia Kazan
  • Life
  • Theatre
  • Building

• Metaphor matters because it creates expectations.

  

  James Geary

• So now I just assume that it won't work, and that if it does work, I'll lose it anyway. This is meant to protect me, although it doesn't, because somehow the hope sneakily finds its way in. I'm never aware of the hope until it's gone, whooshed away like a rug pulled from under my feet, each time I hear another "I'm sorry.

  

  Liane Moriarty
  • Time
  • Work
  • Hope

• I drilled holes in the floor of the club, and it's sinking.

  

  Bobby Darin