Lists Quotes - Page 40

• I didn't want to be seen as just a guy on a list. I'm interested in good scripts, scripts that are about something, scripts that move your acting along.

  Stephen Rea

  Moving, Guy, Acting

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

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• Selfridges’ Christmas hot list includes faux fur animal hats by Merrimaking, currently enjoying a cult status in Japan and amongst festival goers.

  Geraldine James

  Animal, Japan, Hot

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• I think we're on too many government watch lists. We'd better let this one go.

  Grant Imahara

  Thinking, Government, Watches

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• I had to add Oguchi into the list. After all, he’s a soccer player—fittest athletes ever. At 6'4 210 pounds, he's one of the most feared men in the world's game.
  I've played against a lot of massive defenders. And no one has Oguchi's strength. His shoulders and chest are so big that people confuse him with an NFL player. He can move anyone in the game with one arm, including the best strikers in the world. Guys absolutely fear him.

  Charlie Davies

  Soccer, Moving, Athlete

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• If you're 70th or 80th on the money list, it's not very motivating.

  Stacy Lewis

  Ifs

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• My greatest thrill? That's easy. It came the day Mr. McGraw named his 20 all-time players. I'm ninth on that list and that is thrill enough to last me a lifetime.

  Freddie Lindstrom

  Player, Thrill, Lasts

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• I love the way a list makes a big hodgepodge of things simmer down and behave.

  Blue Balliett

  Down And, Way, Bigs

  Blue Balliett (2012). “The Danger Box”, p.29, Scholastic Inc.

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• Orson Welles lists Citizen Kane as his best film, Alfred Hitchcock opts for Shadow of a Doubt, and Sir Carol Reed chose The Third Man - and I'm in all of them.

  Joseph Cotten

  Men, Doubt, Shadow

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• You're thinking of Europe as Germany and France. I don't. I think that's old Europe. If you look at the entire NATO Europe today, the center of gravity is shifting to the east. And there are a lot of new members. And if you just take the list of all the members of NATO and all of those who have been invited in recently -- what is it? Twenty-six, something like that? -- you're right. Germany has been a problem, and France has been a problem.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Thinking, Europe, Twenties

  Briefing at Foreign Press Center, Washington, D.C., 22 Jan. 2003

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• They went down the list of every known charge conceivable to man - rackeering, skimming, kickback, ticket scalping. fixing fights, preordaining fights, vitaiting officials, corrupting judges, all the way down to laundering money. Everything but the Lindbergh baby.

  Don King

  Baby, Fighting, Men

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• The applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes.

  Thomas Gray

  Pain, Eye, Land

  Thomas Gray, John Mitford (1816). “The poems, with critical notes; a life of the author; and an essay on his poetry; by the Rev. John Mitford”, p.116

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• My books always make the best-seller lists in Wolf Hole, Arizona, and Hanksville, Utah.

  Edward Abbey

  Book, Utah, Arizona

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.35, RosettaBooks

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• Our challenge is much more pervasive than it would be if we were just facing one enemy in one place. [Instead there is] the Middle East, Iraq, North Korea, Iran. There's a relatively long list that we believe are linked to the al Qaeda network in the Philippines, in Indonesia and in Yemen and other places. That makes it very clear that this is a global network.

  Hillary Clinton

  Believe, Iran, Korea

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• Anyway, several rewrites later, Del Rey Books did publish my first novel, and it did become the first work of fiction on the New York Times trade paperback bestseller list.

  Terry Brooks

  New York, Book, Fiction

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• I made a list of the happiest periods of my life & I realized that none of them involve money.

  Tony Hsieh

  Moral, Made, Periods

  Tony Hsieh (2010). “Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose”, p.43, Hachette UK

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• If you were to write down all the possible ways to motivate people to do better work, friendly praise would have to come near the head of your list.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Work, Writing, People

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• It's fun when you start a movie, because it's kind of like you get to go Christmas shopping... you get to make your wish list and you start thinking about what each character needs.

  Spike Jonze

  Christmas, Fun, Character

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• Making out an invitation list for a party brings out the worst in everyone. It is then that our most ruthless estimates of the people we know come into play.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Party, Play, People

  Sydney J. Harris (1953). “Strictly personal”

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• When I was single I used to list the qualities that I would need in my first love. Then one ordinary day in my university, I looked into the eyes of a girl and saw everything I ever needed. The rest is history ; )

  Mike Bliss

  Girl, Eye, First Love

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• Ask yourself, "Why do I want to be in shape?" and write all ... Put your list everywhere to constantly remind yourself why you're doing what you're doing and how your life will improve by becoming fitter.

  Jillian Michaels

  Motivational, Writing, Shapes

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• Suffering is seldom an item on our list of requests to the Lord. But when it crosses our path and we are able by his grace to keep on walking, our lives become messages of hope to the world and to the church.

  Sheila Walsh

  Hope, Encouragement, Grace

  Sheila Walsh (1999). “Life is Tough, But God is Faithful: How to See God's Love in Difficult Times”, p.1957, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Although awareness of cancer's prevalence in the United States improves and medical advances in the field abound, pancreatic cancer has largely been absent from the list of major success stories.

  Chris Van Hollen

  Cancer, United States, Stories

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• Truly, spiritual courage is on the endangered character-quality list.

  Bill Hybels

  Spiritual, Character, Quality

  Bill Hybels, LaVonne Neff (1987). “Who You are when No One's Looking: Choosing Consistency, Resisting Compromise”, p.17, InterVarsity Press

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• Ask someone you'd like to know to list five people they would most like to meet. It will tell you a lot about them.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Life Lesson, People, Five

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• Besides the respect of the lives of human beings, all the animals and plants should be on the list too. That is the real humanitarianism.

  Gautama Buddha

  Real, Commitment, Animal

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