Kevin McCloud Quotes

I like the absurd and the surreal: the Coen brothers, Bunuel, Kubrick.

Kevin McCloud

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• The difference between eccentricity and originality in historical studies is often difficult to detect at first encounter. When a radically new interpretation of a large segment of history makes its appearance, time is needed to sift the evidence.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Time
  • History
  • New

• Is the button white or orange or green or yellow? Does it say 'sell', or 'sell now', or 'on sale' or 'for sale'? You test, you test, you test and most of the ideas you try fail and so I would argue I failed my way to success.

  

  Fabrice Grinda
  • Success
  • Ideas
  • Green

• I generally wake up at 4:30, have breakfast No. 1, then get to the pool by 5 a.m.

  

  Natalie Coughlin
  • Up
  • Breakfast
  • Pool

• The European Union will continue to fully support multilateral global governance based on international law, human rights, and strong international institutions.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Strong
  • Law
  • Support

• Whatever I think the song sounds like is what I'll name it. It's a feeling thing; it's not logical at all.

  

  Thebe Neruda Kgositsile
  • Think
  • Song
  • Feeling

• I find that people in the food world are amazingly willing to talk about what they are doing, even when those things are quasi-legal or taboo.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • People
  • World
  • Food

• There are two ways of talking. One is the easy way, where you talk lightly, and the other one is the considered way. The considered way is what I have put my name to.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Easy
  • Name
  • Talking

• I talk in subjects and verbs, and sort of wind around in concentric circles until I get far enough away from the beginning so that I can call it the end, and it ends.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Beginning
  • End
  • Wind

• Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.

  

  Walt Alston
  • Baseball
  • Repeat
  • Axiom

• Hong Kong people say Hong Kong needs to preserve its uniqueness. I say Hong Kong's uniqueness is in its diversity, its tolerance of difference cultures... China does not want to see Hong Kong in decline. I have full confidence in its future.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Future
  • Confidence

• The deepest difference between religions is not that between polytheism and monotheism.

  

  Walter Kaufmann
  • Difference
  • Between
  • Deepest

• We know what's in our Cheerios and in our retirement accounts because the law requires disclosure.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Law
  • Know
  • Retirement

• I like analyzing and managing large-scale transaction-processing platforms, recordkeeping administration, and brokerage trading services.

  

  Abagail Johnson
  • Like
  • Trading
  • Analyzing

• The International Girl Crew isn't supposed to be super exclusive - that's a really important part of our brand and message. It's not just our crew - it's a lifestyle. It's for everybody to know how empowering it is to be surrounded by friends who motivate and support you and who you feel like you can exchange ideas with and do projects with.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Important
  • Friends
  • Girl

• When I won't have work, say, after seven or eight years, or when I retire, I can't imagine leaving Hyderabad, because I love this city that much.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Work
  • City
  • Retire

• Between the conceptionAnd the creationBetween the emotionAnd the responseFalls the Shadow

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Shadow

• ...organized labor...rushes to support the party without demanding a turn away from corporatism toward workers’ needs. This is the logic of the lesser of two evils. It tethers labor to a relentless slide deeper into the corporate power pits year after year.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Power
  • Support
  • Party

• Never make unsupportable assumptions about your enemies, Martin. It can be a fatal self-indulgence.

  

  Dan Simmons

• The industry's not stupid. The industry knows that if those foods are labeled 'genetically engineered', the public will shy away and won't take them.

  

  Jeremy Rifkin
  • Stupid

• 21st-century activism is different perhaps in the sense that the individual can be more present in the process, especially via social media, but the underlying drivers remain the same as desire to change the status quo.

  

  Ory Okolloh
  • Different
  • Desire
  • Present

• I have jumped out of airplanes but I was not technically a paratrooper. I was an infantryman and a night fighter, anti-terrorist.

  

  Mark Helprin
  • Night

• Give me Your eyes for just one second, Give me Your eyes so I can see, Everything that I keep missing, Give me Your love for humanity, Give me Your arms for the broken-hearted, The ones that are far beyond my reach, Give me Your heart for the ones forgotten, Give me Your eyes so I can see.

  

  Brandon Heath Knell
  • Eyes
  • Humanity
  • Missing

• When I get the record, all it will make me is the player with the most hits. I'm also the player with the most at bats and the most outs. I never said I was a greater player than Cobb.

  

  Pete Rose
  • Player

• I like the absurd and the surreal: the Coen brothers, Bunuel, Kubrick.

  

  Kevin McCloud