Ken Venturi Quotes

My father was a man of few words.

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• If I look back I feel frightened, not happy, because my life is a bit of a mystery to me.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Life
  • Happy
  • My Life

• The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Real
  • Church
  • British

• When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?

  

  Park Shin-hye
  • Marriage
  • Thought
  • Year

• Consequences of linear thinking in Afghanistan and Iraq included overestimating indigenous forces' capabilities, underestimating the enemy, and the associated expectation that the coalition could soon reduce force levels and shift to an exclusively advisory effort.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • Thinking
  • Effort
  • Enemy

• I love singing. It's who I am. When I act, I take a small part of myself and just magnify it, but when I'm singing, that's who I am. I don't write music, so I choose songs that I would have written.

  

  Lainie Kazan
  • Music
  • Singing
  • Write

• I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Music
  • Think
  • Me

• A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Man
  • Become
  • Atheist

• Home is where one starts from.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Home
  • Where
  • Starts

• In my district, California 14, we have about 4,000 families who are on food stamps, but some of my colleagues have thousands and thousands more. Yet, they somehow feel like crusaders, like heroes, when they vote to cut food stamps.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • Food
  • California
  • Vote

• The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Interesting
  • Community
  • Advertising

• Nobody has ever convinced me that ancient aliens have visited Earth. Not even close.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Earth
  • Me
  • Nobody

• When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Up
  • House
  • Religious

• Some movies to me are like vampires – they suck all of the energy out of me and I don't like that. I like to give the audience energy if I can.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Energy
  • Me
  • Audience

• I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many other votes of women and African Americans in Florida are being discounted or discarded. I want my vote to count.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Women
  • Vote
  • Count

• I talk to student-athletes. I try to get them to remember that they're not just athletes, but student-athletes. You need to get an education, keep your hands clean and try to represent the university.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Remember
  • Education
  • Hands

• Wearing too much makeup definitely makes my skin worse.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Makeup
  • Skin
  • Too Much

• A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Work
  • Heart
  • Done

• I think every girl should have a tailor in her phone. It's part of why we beat ourselves up, or why shopping is so frustrating and hard: we have this assumption that when you take something off the rack, it will fit you.

  

  Kerry Washington
  • Up
  • Why
  • Girl

• Grass is the least rewarding of all status symbols... The grass does nothing but drink money, exhaust energies, crush spirits, destroy sleep, create tensions and interfere with the watching of baseball games, and sprout insolent signs ordering humans to keep off it.

  

  Russell Baker
  • Energy
  • Sleep
  • Spirit

• Losing his wealth, his home, the life he had built, killed my father. He didn't die right away; it took four decades of exile to finish him off.

  

  Andre Aciman
  • Life
  • Home
  • Father

• Children's books aren't textbooks. Their primary purpose isn't supposed to be "Pick this up and it will teach you this." It's not how literature should be. You probably do learn something from every book you pick up, but it might be simply how to laugh.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Up
  • Children
  • Book

• If you improve or tinker with something long enough, eventually it will break or malfunction.

  

  Arthur Bloch
  • Long

• My father was a man of few words.

  

  Ken Venturi
  • Father
  • Words