Kingman Brewster, Jr. Quotes
Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure.
Quotes to Explore
-
We are professionals. We know when we're playing badly, so if you have a poor game, you work in training to put things right so form comes back.
-
I've had the same barber since I was about 14 years old.
-
The man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice against the poor devil who wants ten cents more a day.
-
When you've been on a programme called 'An Idiot Abroad' job offers aren't exactly flying in.
-
Talking to other people who make low-budget movies, everyone kind of has the same struggle.
-
Even though I resigned as Papandreou's adviser early in 2006 and turned into his government's staunchest critic during his mishandling of the post-2009 Greek implosion, my public interventions in the debate on Greece and Europe have carried no whiff of Marxism.
-
Date a woman with children only if you are ready to man up, because it's a position that comes with responsibility.
-
Millions of people gave their lives fighting fascism and imperialism, but Pearl Harbor was the event that forever changed the course of human history.
-
Just think about it: what in the name of God would Alabama be without the University of Alabama? What would Oklahoma be without the University of Oklahoma? Nothing.
-
Boundaries are actually the main factor in space, just as the present, another boundary, is the main factor in time.
-
It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other.
-
In the midst of fighting there is no place for public debate.
-
Playing on the Burj Al Arab helipad was an unforgettable experience, and the view of Dubai was incredible.
-
You perhaps know me as a novelist. Literature is one of the arts – in fact, the noblest of the arts. That is not my opinion; it was first expressed by the ancients. As art, literature has many similarities with the other art forms.
-
I think the genetics of being Irish are that you sort of prefer when it's rainy and cloudy. It's just genetic.
-
As for the level of spectacle of the two disciplines, I leave it to the people who watch the races to comment.
-
I think it's good to have pressure on yourself. The worst crime is to get kind of really complacent.
-
I've come up in the scripted world, and I have wished there were more time slots for us to tell compelling scripted stories and not fill the airwaves with a lot of fluff and tabloid entertainment.
-
Why would I strike America and invite a retaliatory counterstrike that would put an end to my regime? Keep in mind, the whole point of this - my entire strategy, all our efforts and the hardships we have borne - is to ensure that my regime and I survive. Why would I risk that? I believe in assassination, not suicide.
-
I would love to work with Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, B.B. King. I'd love to do something with Arctic Monkeys, Miles Kane, and The Last Shadow Puppets. If I got a call from Juliette Lewis or PJ Harvey, or Chrissie Hynde, that'd be a thrill.
-
No prisoner's dilemma here. Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.
-
I'm very close to my family.
-
There's something about the kind of time travel that a poem can provide. It can take you to somewhere else - a culture far from you, a language far from you, but suddenly you're there. You're that person, seeing with that person's eyes. I think that's really tremendous. Even things like cinema or more traditional history can't quite do that.
-
Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure.
