John Niven Quotes

The sight of people sleeping on the streets hits us hardest around Christmas and New Year. We see them camped out alone on the freezing concrete, and we think, with a rush of guilt, about heading home to our families and our soft beds.

John Niven

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Yuri's Night is a world celebration for everyone who's interested in a human presence in space - without concern for politics, the Cold War, countries that do and don't have space programs.

Robert Picardo

PoliticsWarSpaceWorldNightCold

If something doesn't work, you have to admit it. Always try to find what's going right and what's going wrong with your music. If you can, pool your resources and record yourself; do that frequently.

Steve Forbert

WorkMusicYourselfYouFindWrong

If I'm half as good as everybody said I am, I'm far too good to be wasting time with ordinary people. But I seem to be spending my life with ordinary people, who are the best people in the world.

Stan Lee

LifeGoodTimeBestI AmPeople

What I do is put my characters into situations that are so precarious there is no way to get out. And then I figure how to get them out.

Sidney Sheldon

WayOutGetHowFigureCharacters

The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

CountryPlaceRunWorstWholeVast

I write entertainment. There are some books you read but don't inhale. There are books that will change your life.

Michael Robotham

LifeChangeYouEntertainmentWill

I think you always try to put the offense in the best position to make good plays, which usually requires us to move multiple people around and give them an opportunity to impact a game in a lot of different ways.

Josh McDaniels

GoodOpportunityBestPeopleGame

I always have tried to treat people with respect, the way I want to be treated.

Derek Jeter

RespectPeopleTreatWantWayTried

I got a note from the stage manager one night that someone wanted to meet me. And it was Steven Spielberg.

Corey Reynolds

MeNightSomeoneManagerMeetStage

Billie Jean King is one of the all-time tennis greats; she's one of the superstars. She's ready for the big one, but she doesn't stand a chance against me. Women's tennis is so far beneath men's tennis; that's what makes the contest with a 55-year-old man the greatest contest of all time.

Bobby Riggs

WomenTimeMenManKingMe

Rural voters believed the Democrats traded millions in campaign cash at their expense. Along came a guy named Trump to give these voters a political voice.

Bob Beckel

VoicePoliticalRuralDemocratsGuy

There can be little doubt that fishes swimming rapidly do not make respiratory movements at all, but obtain the necessary ventilation of the gills simply by opening the mouth.

August Krogh

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