Kevin Kline Quotes

Ambition without contribution is of no significance.

Kevin Kline

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• I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my handbag so that I can read at any time, anywhere.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Time
  • Work
  • Book

• I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Love
  • She
  • Friend

• What makes you a Christian is whether or not you really are in accord with biblical theology and whether you know Jesus Christ as your Saviour.

  

  Walter Martin
  • Know
  • Christian
  • Jesus

• Presidents make their hard decisions and then abide forever with their mistakes and regrets.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Forever
  • Mistakes
  • Decisions

• Creating new jobs for Pennsylvanians continues to be my highest priority throughout the Commonwealth.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • New
  • Priority
  • Creating

• I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. And I tried the calorie restriction diet: The idea is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time, whether or not you want to, of course.

  

  A. J. Jacobs
  • Time
  • Long
  • Live

• Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Life
  • Live
  • Enjoy

• I have two tutors - a maths tutor and another tutor who does all the other subjects. It is part of the deal with myself; I really want to finish school. I like learning and education, and I think it is really important.

  

  Olivia DeJonge
  • Important
  • School
  • Education

• In corporate culture, in sports culture, in the media, we honor those who win at all costs.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • Culture
  • Sports
  • Honor

• Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.

  

  Barbara Tuchman
  • History
  • Science
  • Thought

• A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • True
  • Man
  • Thing

• It's good for the NHL to implement different things - the 3-on-3, money that'll go to players - to try to get us to play at a higher level.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Good
  • Different
  • Money

• The funny thing is that Dick Cheney has done more than anybody in the White House for quite a long time to throw up roadblocks against future historians.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• I've learned a lot of tricks from working with a lot of great producers over the years, and I think I should write a book about it!

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Great
  • Book
  • Think

• One of the things I did to make myself feel better is that I kicked up my running even more. I knew that I had to stay active, that I had to keep living as if my life was actually going to unfold naturally because when you stop, when you freeze, and you think about it, that's when the demons come and can drag you down.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Life
  • Up
  • Running

• Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That concept comes from the French Revolution.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Good
  • Law
  • Purpose

• Sometimes in this game it's as good to be lucky as it is to be good.

  

  Vida Blue
  • Good
  • Game
  • Sometimes

• In this era of the global village, the tide of democracy is running. And it will not cease, not in China, not in South Africa, not in any corner of this earth, where the simple idea of democracy and freedom has taken root.

  

  Paul Tsongas
  • Earth
  • Freedom
  • Running

• Each season I strive to design a forward-thinking and effortless collection with a very clean minimalist aesthetic.

  

  Francisco Costa
  • Thinking
  • Design
  • Forward

• I have always been driven by the ambition to solve every problem I face, whether as a scientist, engineer or entrepreneur.

  

  Martin Winterkorn
  • Ambition
  • Entrepreneur

• Men have no concept of how to design things for the home. Women should design the things they use.

  

  Eva Zeisel
  • Women
  • Home
  • Design

• I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony.

  

  Peter O'Toole
  • Common
  • Smooth
  • Monotony

• Ambition without contribution is of no significance.

  

  Kevin Kline
  • Ambition
  • Contribution
  • Significance