Combination famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
-- Aaron Sorkin -
I have had to work long and hard to eradicate the dangerous delusion that, in a bad position, I could always, or nearly always, conjure up some unexpected combination to extricate me from my difficulties.
-- Alexander Alekhine -
This power ought to be coextensive with all the possible combinations of such circumstances; and ought to be under the direction of the same councils which are appointed to preside over the common defense.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
Im a combination between extreme insecurity and extreme confidence.
-- Alexandra Daddario -
Above all things we must be aware of what I will call 'inert ideas' - that is to say, ideas that are merely received into the mind without being utilized, or tested, or thrown into fresh combinations.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
Adolescence is usually typified by an unanswerable combination of innocence and insolence.
-- Alice Thomas Ellis -
Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.
-- Arnold Palmer -
You can only hope to get a combination of happy work and a happy life.
-- Audrey Hepburn -
Having secured my Indian actors, I started for Baltimore, where I organized my combination, and which was the largest troupe I had yet had on the road.
-- Buffalo Bill -
In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism.
-- C. L. R. James -
For a short-story writer, a story is the combination of what the writer supposed the story would likely be about - plus what actually turned up in the course of writing.
-- Carol Bly -
One must know combinations, one must have a true knowledge of food to be in the moment.
-- Charlie Trotter -
The word “future†and females is a dangerous combination.
-- Chetan Bhagat -
I've been around horses, but I certainly wouldn't call myself a horseman by any means. It's a combination of being very aware of them, and not trusting them.
-- Chris Cooper -
Luck is a combination of confidence and getting the breaks.
-- Christy Mathewson -
Families are the Nurseries of all Societies; and the First combinations of mankind.
-- Cotton Mather -
Believing in who you are is a major part of a powerful combination for success.
-- Darren Johnson -
The American Civil War produced carnage that has often been thought reserved for the combination of technological proficiency and inhumanity characteristic of a later time.
-- Drew Gilpin Faust -
Here, in Cork district, you have in combination all the dangers which war can inflict.
-- Eamon de Valera -
Ability and guts is an unbeatable combination.
-- Eamon Dunphy -
You know, the whole philosophy of ad hoc combinations has its strengths and its weaknesses.
-- Evan Parker -
If poly A is added to poly U, to form a double or triple helix, the combination is inactive.
-- Francis Crick -
The path of mastering something is the combination of not only doing the best you can do at it, but also doing it the best it can be done.
-- Gary W. Keller -
Synaptic summation is the technical term used in neurophysiology for those instances in which some neuron C is fired only by a combination of neurons A and B.
-- Gregory Bateson -
I think I'm a weird combination of deeply introverted and very daring. I can feel both those things working.
-- Helen Hunt -
From any vocabulary of ideas we can build other ideas by formal combinations of signs. But not any set of ideas will be instructive. One must have the right ideas.
-- Ian Hacking -
You can never love anyone to your own detriment. That is not love, that is possession, control, fear, or a combination of them all.
-- Iyanla Vanzant -
Each race (or variety) is characterized by a more or less distinct combination of inherited morphological, behavioral, physiological traits.
-- J. Philippe Rushton -
Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.
-- Jack Prelutsky -
An idea is nothing more nor less than a new combination of old elements.
-- James Webb Young -
Making a movie is a weird combination of planning and the absolutely unexpected.
-- Jason Schwartzman -
The science of government is only a science of combinations, of applications, and of exceptions, according to times, places and circumstances.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
There is no more vulnerable human combination than an undergraduate.
-- John Dickey -
Nothing can be made of nothing; he who has laid up no material can produce no combination.
-- Joshua Reynolds -
Those who have heard or read anything from me on the subject, know that one of the principal points insisted on is, the forming of societies or any other artificial combinations IS the first, greatest, and most fatal mistake ever committed by legislators and by reformers.
-- Josiah Warren -
My studio is a fantastic combination of old and new, and that's how I've always liked to work.
-- Kate Bush -
I'm an incurable romantic, and 'Casablanca''s one of the most romantic pictures I've ever seen - the combination of Bogart and Bergman is just magical.
-- Ken Adam -
Harry Cohn did not make me. But I also feel that I probably didn't make me, either. I think it was a combination. I think that's what made it work.
-- Kim Novak -
He is a man, and he is afraid. This is not a good combination.
-- Kristin Hannah -
Idealism and science continue to function in separate compartments; and yet 'the happiness of man on earth' depends upon their combination.
-- Lewis Mumford -
Unless the trade deficit shrinks, the combination of the trade deficit and the interest and dividend payments to foreigners will grow ever more rapidly.
-- Martin Feldstein -
The most amazing combinations can result if you shuffle the pack enough.
-- Mikhail Bulgakov -
In the end, color combinations come down to our personal preferences, which we must discover through observation and experiment.
-- Monty Don -
I always remind myself that what one observes is at best a combination of variance and returns, not just returns.
-- Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
If I were to put on Barbra Streisand and Duke Ellington, one might say the combination isn't good.
-- Norman Granz -
Brant's an idealist, and he's competent. There are few more dangerous combinations in this world... Heroes are even more dangerous than idealists.
-- Patricia C. Wrede -
I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.
-- Patricia Velasquez -
I'm a combination of Linda Ronstadt, Loretta Lynn and Ralph Stanley.
-- Patty Loveless -
I like to cook; it is, for me, a happy combination of mindlessness and purpose.
-- Paula Fox -
I have a strange combination of fearlessness and massive insecurity.
-- Penny Marshall -
When you talk to a human in 2035, you'll be talking to someone that's a combination of biological and non-biological intelligence.
-- Ray Kurzweil -
It's the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate.
-- Rita Dove -
Where else could one find such a perfect combination of American values -- racism, militarism, capitalism -- all packaged in one 'ideal' symbol, a woman.
-- Robin Morgan -
Nothing comes from nothing, Thieflet; no story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old--it is the new combinations that make them new.
-- Salman Rushdie -
It's probably a combination of personal and non-personal matters that have led us to where we are musically.
-- Serj Tankian -
Practical efficiency is common, and lofty idealism not uncommon; it is the combination which is necessary, and the combination is rare
-- Theodore Roosevelt -
I didn’t fail ten thousand times. I successfully eliminated, ten thousand times, materials and combinations which wouldn’t work.
-- Thomas A. Edison -
It's always a combination of physics and poetry that I find inspiring. It's hard to wrap your head around things like the Hubble scope.
-- Tom Hanks -
Unite; for combination is stronger than witchcraft.
-- Toussaint Louverture -
The combination of domesticity and wildness - that's a deep expression
-- Tracy Kidder -
Ignorance and arrogance are a lethal combination. Nowhere do we see that more clearly among writers and performers who pontificate as historians when they know nothing about history.
-- Victor Davis Hanson -
No one but Gene Tierney could have played 'Laura.' There was no other actress around with her particular combination of beauty, breeding, and mystery.
-- Vincent Price -
Cradles are the most powerful pinning combination known to man
-- Wade Schalles -
It’s the combination of improbability with an independently given pattern that discredits chance.
-- William Lane Craig -
Being both soft and strong is a combination very few have mastered.
-- Yasmin Mogahed -
The tango is really a combination of many cultures, though it eventually became the national music of Argentina.
-- Yo-Yo Ma -
HERO is a combination of my personal feeling and the commercialism.
-- Zhang Yimou -
Once you move in with your significant other, you have to become a combination of each other.
-- Chaz Bundick -
Practice with the obstacle, always with the obstacle, and seek combinations.
-- Sebastien Foucan -
I'm a combination of the Terminator and Bambi.
-- Shaquille O'Neal -
It's a combination of yes - making a movie about the characters - and then, also, budget.
-- Ti West -
I love my DSL, but I love my WiFi more. And I probably get on the Internet 40 percent to 50 percent more because of the combination of those technologies.
-- Michael K. Powell -
If we increase spending, we have got to raise taxes or any combination.
-- Bobby Scott -
Wisdom and beauty form a very rare combination.
-- Petronius -
Morally repugnant and tactically stupid are a lousy combination.
-- Richard North Patterson -
An elegantly organized tour of the Internet, both fun and informative, a rare combination!
-- Steve Crocker -
I got up to all sorts of things when I was a kid, but I've managed to take the excessive alcohol and fast vehicle combination out of my life now.
-- Jason Flemyng -
The combination of foolishness in the heart and free will in the head is extremely volatile.
-- John Rosemond
