Comfortable Quotes - Page 35

• We're comfortable financially, so it wasn't a financial issue that I voted Conservative. Basically, it was for the same reason we voted for Diefenbaker. First it was Mackenzie King, then St. Laurent -- Christ, the Liberals were in something like 20 years in a row (22 actually) --and we simply needed a change. It was getting like a dictatorship. Whether elected or not, that's not good for the country. I didn't go to war for a dictatorship.

  Don Drysdale

  Country, Kings, War

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• Courses that you've had success on, all of a sudden your game turns around because you feel comfortable on your tee shots, you feel comfortable going to the greens, you know, all the reads on the putts. It's a feeling that's hard to describe, but it's certainly one that you get filled up with confidence more than anything else.

  Tiger Woods

  Filled Up, Games, Feelings

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• I think we're much more comfortable with women as policy makers.We're not there yet, but the comfort zone is much wider than it was when I came.

  Patricia Schroeder

  Thinking, Comfort, Makers

  "Schroeder Escapes The House's Glass Ceiling" by Charles Bierbauer, www.cnn.com.

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• Just the very thought of someone my age going to visit old girlfriends had instant appeal.Even women think, 'That would be interesting.' Not comfortable, but interesting. It is not a comfortable film at any point.

  Bill Murray

  Girlfriend, Thinking, Interesting

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• I desire now to make no more pleas with Christ; verily, he hath not put me to a loss by what I suffer; he oweth me nothing; for in my bonds, how sweet and comfortable have the thoughts of him been to me, wherein I find a sufficient recompense of reward!.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Sweet, Loss, Suffering

  Samuel Rutherford (1857). “Letters”, p.148

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• I've had some ambivalent feelings about being an actor. I don't know that I've ever been totally and completely comfortable with it.

  Don Johnson

  Feelings, Actors, Knows

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We have an opportunity to improve productivity and cut costs while growing our way to a better and a more comfortable operating environment. I don't think anyone feels comfortable about bumping around where we are today.

  Scott McNealy

  Cutting, Opportunity, Thinking

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• I don't know that I necessarily feel more comfortable in the context of smaller films, but I tend to feel more comfortable more often than not with the material of smaller films.

  Elijah Wood

  Comfort, Film, Feels

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The majority of Latin actresses in Hollywood were always playing either spitfires or maids. Now here is a woman who comes in and does leads opposite white people and black people and other Spanish people, and she's comfortable in her skin? Gasp! How dare she?

  Rosie Perez

  Latin, Opposites, White

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• I'm uncomfortable when I'm comfortable ... I can't help it, it's my personality.

  Jay Chiat

  Personality, Helping, Uncomfortable

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• The professionalism of technique and flash of dexterity are more comfortable to be around than raw creative power, hence our society generally rewards virtuoso performers more highly than it rewards original creators.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Creative, Rewards, Our Society

  Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.120, Penguin

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• We are comfortable in this environment. Why not make ourselves comfortable over there?.

  Celine Dion

  Comfort, Why Not, Environment

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• The more chances you get, the more comfortable you feel. I?m ready to go out there if something happens. I?ll feel comfortable if I am ever called on.

  Doug Flutie

  Comfort, Chance, Ready

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• I'm familiar to people. They feel comfortable with me. I started in live television. I perform live all the time. I sing with the piano. I sing with a symphony. I can sit and ask questions. I can listen. I'm very comfortable in most situations.

  Florence Henderson

  Symphony, Piano, People

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• It was the economic benefit,You make a comfortable living in public service and you get a fairly comfortable retirement, if you watch your pennies and you're not extravagant. But in television, if a show goes, you make a substantial amount of money. So, economically it just didn't make sense for me not to.

  Mills Lane

  Retirement, Pennies, Comfort

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• I think if I have established anything in my book, it's that a key element of being my friend is being comfortable with my forced fun.

  Amy Poehler

  Fun, Book, Thinking

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• This was a brainchild of mine, to build a shop where you could walk up to everything and didn't feel like you had to keep your hands off. I wanted a shop that you could walk into and feel comfortable in, and I wanted women to feel comfortable in the shop as well.

  Roger Meddows Taylor

  Hands, Comfort, Like You

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• People like to put you in a little box, and that's where they are comfortable with you being.

  Ricki-Lee Coulter

  People, Littles, Boxes

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• Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.

  Charles H. Brower

  Creativity, People, Conformity

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• Christianity is not the faith of the complacent, the comfortable or of the timid. It demands and creates heroic souls.

  Mitt Romney

  Soul, Demand, Heroic

  Mitt Romne's Commencement Address at Liberty University, www.businessinsider.com. May 12, 2012.

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• If you don't feel comfortable with the Red Cross, anything that you feel comfortable sending money to -- that you know is going to get to the hurricane victims -- send money. Because that's what you can do to help. And a lot of prayers. Lots of prayers.

  Tim McGraw

  Prayer, Red, Hurricanes

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• I didn't hit one three-pointer in college, and a couple of those were right on the college three line. I didn't feel comfortable much outside of 12 to 15 feet. Now, I really feel comfortable from the wing and the corner area out to 18, 19 feet. I'm going to keep working and continue to improve it.

  David Lee

  Couple, College, Wings

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• I'm comfortable with that [a week's practice]. I've had numerous weeks of working on it, and a lot of it has been football specific. One week of practice actually, one week of official practice and I'll be more than comfortable.

  Anquan Boldin

  Football, Practice, Comfort

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• Art doesn't want to be familiar. It wants to astonish us. Or, in some cases, to enrage us. It wants to move us. To touch us. Not accommodate us, make us comfortable.

  Jamake Highwater

  Art, Moving, Want

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• I don't know about anyone else, but if I had problems or issues maybe I wouldn't feel as comfortable talking about them in a group.

  Jermain Defoe

  Talking, Issues, Groups

  "Jermain Defoe: 'I wanted to put something back and stop all this youth violence'". Interview with Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. April 7, 2012.

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