Bobby Darin Quotes

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

Bobby Darin

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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 love figuring out a stranger, sitting down and learning about their loves and struggles and everything. People are my jam.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • People
  • Love
  • Learning

• 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

• Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Combat
  • Foes

• Americans are willing to go to enormous trouble and expense defending their principles with arms, very little trouble and expense advocating them with words. Temperamentally we are ready to die for certain principles (or, in the case of overripe adults, send youngsters to die), but we show little inclination to advertise the reasons for dying.

  

  E. B. White
  • Words
  • Die
  • Dying

• In politics, all candidates and volunteers are ambassadors to voters who expect better than parroting the politics of personal destruction. Being able to find common ground at the higher ground is what separates the stateswoman from the stuntwoman.

  

  Christine Pelosi

• I suppose that I was a kind of consultant for taste. Is it good taste? Or bad taste? I had an attention to detail, to what would tell best the story. Because many people get excited about the work and drift off from the story.

  

  John Hench
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn't much. But the things that I'm really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I'm not successful, what do I have?

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Successful
  • Succeed
  • Failing

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

  

  Bobby Darin