Al Boliska Quotes

Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight?

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• I am obsessed with proportion, and how proportion is perceived.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Obsessed
  • Proportion
  • Perceived

• I'm to a point now where you want to play for your fans and all that, but I'm playing for the guys in that huddle. I'm playing for the guys in that locker room.

  

  Tarvaris Jackson
  • Want
  • You
  • Fans

• The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

  

  Karl Marx
  • People
  • Results
  • Useless

• Trends don't interest me.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Me
  • Interest
  • Trends

• Ultimately, all human beings fulfill their patterns. We're set in a certain archetype, and we fulfill that destiny.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Human
  • Destiny
  • Patterns

• I cry a lot, and I have no problem with that at all. Listening to your emotions is part of being alive.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Problem
  • Listening
  • Emotions

• We can't do a modern Batman continually beating up thugs in zoot suits with tommy guns in violin cases. The game has to move on. It has to feel relevant.

  

  Gary Frank
  • Up
  • Game
  • Batman

• The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • World
  • Challenge
  • Road

• Since I started acting, I had to quit a lot of bad habits. I've tried to stop biting my nails, because people always look at your nails during auditions. Truth be told, I still have a 'cheat nail,' but I've been cheating less and less.

  

  Callie Hernandez
  • People
  • Truth
  • Bad

• We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Suffering
  • Learn
  • Others

• Music is a passion of mine. I'm always listening, always learning.

  

  J. D. Pardo
  • Music
  • Learning
  • Passion

• I don't believe that there are aliens. I believe there are really different people.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • People
  • Believe
  • Different

• Hurdling, sprinting, athletics in general, is always in the back of your mind.

  

  Sally Pearson
  • Mind
  • Always
  • Back

• But who can fathom the subtleties of the human heart? Certainly not those who expect from it only decorous sentiments and normal emotions.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Heart

• She’s all for not letting the sun go down without having started something calculated to stagger humanity.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • She
  • Humanity
  • Sun

• Yes, we have consensus that we need 64 bit support.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Support

• Montaigne the I-sayer. 'I' as space, not as position.

  

  Elias Canetti
  • Space

• When panting sighs the bosom fill,And hands by chance united thrillAt once with one delicious painThe pulses and the nerves of twain;When eyes that erst could meet with ease,Do seek, yet, seeking, shyly shunEcstatic conscious unison,-The sure beginnings, say, be thesePrelusive to the strain of loveWhich angels sing in heaven above?

  

  Arthur Hugh Clough
  • Eyes
  • Heaven

• Any power or structure that seeks to maintain full control and is not open in any way to loosening its power eventually makes itself ridiculous.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Power
  • Control

• I have no mouth, and I must scream.

  

  Harlan Ellison
  • Mouth
  • Scream
  • Must

• I am the opposite of boring, but I'm a little reckless, and I'm not against taking risks, and I think I'm always down for an adventure.

  

  Claire Holt
  • Adventure
  • Boring
  • Reckless

• But when he has done this, let him not say that he knows better than his master, for he only holds a candle in sunshine.

  

  William Blake
  • Master
  • Sunshine
  • nows

• The two revolutions, I mean the annual revolutions of the declination and of the centre of the Earth, are not completely equal; that is the return of the declination to its original value is slightly ahead of the period of the centre. Hence it necessarily follows that the equinoxes and solstices seem to anticipate their timing, not because the sphere of the fixed stars moves to the east, but rather the equatorial circle moves to the west, being at an angle to the plane of the ecliptic in proportion to the declination of the axis of the terrestrial globe.

  

  Nicolaus Copernicus
  • Mean
  • Moving
  • Stars

• Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight?

  

  Al Boliska