Simon Mainwaring Quotes

Your computer needn't be the first thing your see in the morning and the last thing you see at night.

Simon Mainwaring

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: businessman
  • Nationality:
  • Birth: 1967

Topics

MorningNightComputersYouSee

I've studied a lot of great people over the years - Pete Seeger, James Brown - and tried to incorporate elements that I've admired, though I can't say I dance like James.

John Fogerty

GreatDancePeopleSayGreat People

In my writing, I try to combine all my favorite elements of journalism - accuracy, real characters that exist on this planet - with all my favorite elements of literature: a sense of flow, of propulsion, of wanting to read every sentence.

Michael Finkel

WritingLiteratureJournalismFlow

I think we've got a lot players in the squad who are more suited to European football at the moment.

Steven Gerrard

MomentFootballThinkSquadMore

I'm such a magpie. I'll get halfway through one thing and pick up something else. I always have 5 or 6 books open and spine-up by my bed: it's like a row of tents. I don't finish nearly as many books as I should.

Steven Hall

BedAlwaysFinishOpenUpSomething

The Army has carried the American ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability.

Tom Lehrer

ColorAmericanArmyDiscrimination

I couldn't imagine trying anything else besides acting. But I didn't know that to make it meant I'd be on a movie screen.

Mary Steenburgen

TryingActingKnowAnythingImagine

Health messages are simply overwhelmed, in volume and in effectiveness, by junk-food ads that often deploy celebrities or cartoon characters to great effect. We may know that eating fruits and vegetables is good for us, but the preponderance of the signals we get - and especially the signals children get - push us in the direction of junk food.

Michael Moss

GoodChildrenHealthGreatFood

Ask anyone on Social Security if their check comes on time every month. Like clockwork. And it comes through the so-called dilapidated U.S. mail. My dad's check literally will come on the same day every month. The government has been quite good and efficient at creating a number of systems.

Michael Moore

GoodTimeDayGovernmentSecurity

Oh, my God! My wife and I, boy, we got down that night. On a personal note!

Derek Luke

GodWifeNightDownBoyPersonal

Think about it - pro wrestling as an Olympic sport would be pretty cool. Look at figure skating or gymnastics - what is it? It's a choreographed performance that is judged.

Chris Jericho

CoolPerformanceThinkLookSkating

When I was young, I played the piano and studied classical music and jazz. I wanted to be a concert pianist, and if I'd devoted myself to it, I could have been. But it would have been too much work and a very lonely life.

Christopher Plummer

LifeWorkMusicMyselfLonelyJazz

I came across an older picture of me that someone had posted on Facebook, and I totally remember squirming and feeling very fat while I was shooting it.

Christie Brinkley

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