Typical famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we're all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
-- Alan Kay -
Capablanca used to talk calmly and moderately about everything. However, when our conversation turned to the problems of the battle for the world championship, in front of me was a quite different person: an enraged lion, although with the fervour typical only of a southerner, with his temperamental patter, which made it hard to follow the torrent of his indignant exclamations and words.
-- Alexander Koblencs -
The study of typical plans is something that the leading grandmasters devote a great deal of time to. I would say that the most far-seeing of them devote as much time to this as to the study of openings.
-- Alexander Kotov -
A package of 35 improvements to typical industrial motor systems can save around 50% of their metered energy…with a simple payback under 16 months.
-- Amory Lovins -
A typical Ponzi scheme involves taking money from investors, then paying them off with money taken from new investors, rather than paying them from actual earnings.
-- Amy Goodman -
You know later in life I was inspired to sing and that would've been Aretha, Chaka Khan, Mariah - the typical divas were the inspiration. I've always enjoyed all those singers.
-- Anastacia -
Typical reaction to scrutiny: attack and mock messenger and message, minimize the problem, hope attention dies down.
-- Anat R. Admati -
Typical horror movies of the 1930s were often given a period setting in what looked like a kind of stylized 19th century... the sense of 'elsewhen', of distance, lent to many of these movies by their settings. They exist, as it were, in a 19th century of the mind.
-- Andrew Tudor -
I see myself as not a typical theater person, but a person who uses the theater as a place to meet people and explore ideas.
-- Anna Deavere Smith -
Are we changing the idea of what beauty is? Let's hope so. I'm not the typical Hollywood beauty. Let's hope we're looking at the insides of people a little more.
-- Anne Heche -
Children in school are not students, they are pupils. It is typical of certain kinds of politicians that they should regard children as adults, the better subsequently, and consequently, to regard adults as children.
-- Anthony Daniels -
One of the chief things which my typical man has to learn is that the mental faculties are capable of a continuous hard activity; they do not tire like an arm or a leg. All they want is change - not rest, except in sleep.
-- Arnold Bennett -
Typical of the fundamental scientific problems whose solution should lead to important industrial consequences are, for example, the release of atomic energy, which experiment has shown to exist in quantities millions of times greater than is liberated by combustion.
-- Arthur Compton -
The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers.
-- Arthur Erickson -
Strange how much simple wisdom there is to be found in the deformed head and unprepossessing carcase of your typical London cabbie.
-- Auberon Waugh -
I didn't do the typical things that young kids do.
-- Balthazar Getty -
If current trends continue, the typical U.S. worker will be considerably more productive several decades from now. Thus, one might argue that letting future generations bear the burden of population aging is appropriate, as they will likely be richer than we are even taking that burden into account.
-- Ben Bernanke -
I am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.
-- Ben Whishaw -
The typical Westerner wishes to be the cause of as many changes as possible in his environment; the typical Chinaman wishes to enjoy as much and as delicately as possible.
-- Bertrand Russell -
I would wager that the number of civilians that were killed [in] a typical week under Saddam Hussein was probably more than we killed during the weeks we were at war there.
-- Bill Maher -
It doesn't set off any alarm bells. As is typical with T. Rowe, no transition comes about abruptly; they tend to be planned pretty well.
-- Bill Vaughan -
A typical day in the life of a heavy metal musician consists of a round of golf and an AA meeting.
-- Billy Joel -
What Jesus said we could do is leave typical behind.
-- Bob Goff -
In the past, I tried to be more of a typical session guitarist. I wasn't so concerned with impressing anybody.
-- Brad Paisley -
The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I was the typical African woman, I'd done this privately, I wanted him to look at it, approve it and he said he wouldn't read it.
-- Buchi Emecheta -
The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, 'What? You too? I thought I was the only one!
-- C. S. Lewis -
The propositions of mathematics have, therefore, the same unquestionable certainty which is typical of such propositions as "All bachelors are unmarried," but they also share the complete lack of empirical content which is associated with that certainty: The propositions of mathematics are devoid of all factual content; they convey no information whatever on any empirical subject matter.
-- Carl Gustav Hempel -
I'm not supposed to be able to speak clearly, and decipher what's going on in the media. I'm supposed to be the typical amateur who's 22 and scared to death and can't believe he won the Olympics.
-- Carl Lewis -
There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
-- Carl Sagan -
Neuroscientists are finding that what passes as a typical presentation is usually the worst way to engage your audience.
-- Carmine Gallo -
The novice trader is at a disadvantage because the intuitions that he is going to have about the market are going to be the ones that are typical of beginners. The expert is someone who sees beyond those typical responses and has an understanding of the deeper workings of the market.
-- Charles Faulkner -
The typical eye sees the ten per cent bad of an idea and overlooks the ninety per cent good.
-- Charles Kettering -
I didn't grow up in the typical happy American home, but music was always a safe and wonderful place for me to go.
-- Chris Isaak -
It's not a very big thing to say, 'I made a mistake' on the war, and typical of Hillary Clinton that she can't,
-- David Geffen -
I was a typical teen growing up in the 1960s, when everybody was into gurus and meditation,
-- David Suchet -
Like a typical Gemini I'm changeable, I can be two different types of people. I can be very outgoing, but sometimes very shy.
-- Denise Van Outen -
There is no such thing as a typical season, not for the Cardinals, not for San Diego, not for Minnesota.
-- Dennis Green -
New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.
-- Djuna Barnes -
Make people's portraits in familiar and typical attitudes.
-- Edgar Degas -
Mass production is only profitable if its rhythm can be maintained.. that is, if it can continue to sell its product in steady or increasing quantity. The result is that while, under the handicraft or small-unit system of production that was typical a century ago, demand created the supply, today supply must actively seek to create its corresponding demand.
-- Edward Bernays -
Typical Hollywood crowd - all the kids are on drugs, and all the adults are on roller skates.
-- Eric Idle -
I'm more proud of my upper body. Let's just say I'm a typical female in that way.
-- Erika Christensen -
The Northern idea of form is more of a process. The various units of the form overlap. You can't tell where some things stop and new things start. This is typical of Sibelius.
-- Esa-Pekka Salonen -
That's typical Gabrielle, ... Marc has a very clever plan for this pregnancy. It's going to turn her world upside down
-- Eva Longoria -
Rosemary felt that this swim would become the typical one of her life, the one that would always pop up in her memory at the mention of swimming.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald -
If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
John Guidetti is a typical English striker. Even though he is Swedish
-- Gareth Barry -
I am a typical Italian; I love the clan. But I don't think about getting married.
-- Gianni Versace -
The next day, we shot 'I Want You Back,' and that was a 14-hour day. That's typical. By the end of the day, my knees and ankles are killing me.
-- Grant Gustin -
But just as haste and restlessness are typical of our present-day life, so change also takes place more rapidly than before. This applies to change in the relationships between nations as it does to change within an individual nation.
-- Gustav Stresemann -
It seems to me that the evidence ... is opposed to the view that the spirals are individual galaxies comparable with our own. In fact, there appears as yet no reason for modifying the tentative hypothesis that the spirals are not composed of typical stars at all, but are truly nebulous objects.
-- Harlow Shapley -
It was just a typical London flat, but it was in a great neighborhood. It was across from the Playboy Club, diagonally. From one balcony you could read the time from Big Ben, and from the other balcony you could watch the bunnies go up and down.
-- Harry Nilsson -
Even when I became the typical shy adolescent, I never minded performing. I felt there was a kind of safety, a protection about being on stage, about losing myself in another character.
-- Hayley Mills -
Payment systems are critically important for overall market stability. On a typical business day, U.S. payment and settlement systems settle transactions valued at over $13 trillion.
-- Henry Paulson -
The deck is still stacked in favor of those already at the top. And there's something wrong with that. There's something wrong when CEOs make 300 times more than the typical worker.
-- Hillary Clinton -
A typical Christmas is me shucking oysters. I love them and I always get them in at Christmas.
-- Hugh Bonneville -
I guess you could say, I'm just a typical Methodist kid at heart.
-- Hugh Hefner -
Liverpool wouldn't be the club it is today without Bill Shankly and Bob Paisley and the players who played there. When I first went there it was a typical Second Division ground, and look at it now!
-- Ian Callaghan -
Typical news accounts and commentaries about school shootings and rampage killings rarely mention gender.
-- Jackson Katz -
It seems to be typical of life in America ... that the second generation has no time to talk to the first.
-- James A. Baldwin -
I've mis-signed many a book Rollins or Clemens. My readers quickly become aware. Booksellers will often promote me under both names, and I do plug both at signings. Generally, the fantasy reader has no problem going into the suspense genre. It's harder for the typical suspense reader to go the other direction.
-- James Rollins -
A typical 'Larry King Live' is a pastiche whose absurdism defies parody. Wearing his trademark suspenders and purple shirts, he looks as if he's strapped to the chair with vertical seat belts, unable to eject.
-- James Wolcott -
The bad guys are not typical; they are not just bad, they are interesting. They might be good or bad.
-- Jan de Bont -
We only need to walk or bike ten percent of the time to make a significant change in society. That is just two days of walking, bicycling or taking transit per month for a typical commuter.
-- Jeff Olson -
Typical pay increases are not enough to motivate employees, but they are enough to irritate them. … Even when companies create seemingly significant pay differentiation between low and high performers, the actual cash increase is insufficient to sustain performance – or it drives the wrong behaviors. … Effective management is a system, not a pay plan. The mistake is that companies try to solve all their problems with pay.
-- Jeffrey Pfeffer -
Mary is a very well-written typical eldest child in that she puts her own needs at the forefront... She's not as inclined to conciliate or placate. Cora is fascinated by Mary
-- Jessica Fellowes -
If I'm going to do blues, it's going to be a typical Jimmy Rushing record.
-- Jimmy Rushing -
The typical nature photograph shows a butterfly on a pretty flower. The conservation photograph shows the same thing, but with a bulldozer coming at it in the background.
-- Joel Sartore -
Ask yourself: Am I an investor, or am I a speculator? An investor is a person who owns business and holds it forever and enjoys the returns that U.S. businesses, and to some extent global businesses, have earned since the beginning of time. Speculation is betting on price. Speculation has no place in the portfolio or the kit of the typical investor.
-- John C. Bogle -
In a dream it's typical not to be rational.
-- John Forbes Nash -
By the mid 1920s the typical American town was in full sexual bloom. The change came with erotic fashions, literature and movies, and an unsuspected sexual aid, the automobile.
-- John Leo -
Im a typical Capricorn. Im hardworking, loyal, sometimes stubborn, and I dont believe in astrology.
-- Jonah Peretti -
I went to a local high school in Lancaster. Not much I can say about it; it was pretty much your typical public high school back in Pennsylvania.
-- Jonathan Groff -
I think my formative experiences were really in junior high, where at a typical public school we were doing little genetic experiments, very classic experiments.
-- Joseph DeRisi -
The typical American believes that no necessity of the soul is free and that there are precious few, if any, which cannot be bought.
-- Joseph Wood Krutch -
Our show doesn't rely on the typical whistles and bells, and smoke and mirrors. It relies mostly on the music.
-- Juice Newton -
Being a typical Pisces, I might have experienced mood shifts, but I don't remember any depression, or needing to do anything, or to have someone bring me out of being depressed.
-- Julius Erving -
I feel like at 50 I've decided to become a rock star, which is, you know, typical of me. I always seem to work backwards.
-- K. D. Lang -
I was...a journalist...though my typical beat was freelancing articles on Canadian politics, which never included any mention of demonic phenomena, though it might explain the rise of the neoconservatives.
-- Kelley Armstrong -
I always just want to do non-typical voices for some reason.
-- Kenan Thompson -
We did not purify [isolate] ... We saw some particles but they did not have the morphology [shape] typical of retroviruses ... They were very different ... What we did not have, as I have always recognized it, is that it was truly the cause of AIDS.
-- Luc Montagnier -
Several things about Reagan are unusual in a public man. He was not a typical politician at all, but a private man in public life.
-- Lyn Nofziger -
Modesty should be typical of the success of a champion.
-- Major Taylor -
Life wanted faces that would express what we wanted to tell. Not just the unusual or striking face, but the face that would speak out the message from the printed page. I am always looking for some typical person or face that will tie the picture essay together in a human way.
-- Margaret Bourke-White -
As is typical of this God [of Israel], he calls his people into freedom in the most unlikely place.
-- Mark Galli -
I don't have any premonitions. I don't have any supernatural powers. I just have a typical woman's intuition, and I go with that.
-- Mary Elizabeth Winstead -
I can't believe I've turned into a typical old man. I can't believe it. I was young just minutes ago.
-- Maurice Sendak -
I much prefer the company of the crew, the sort of 'blue-collar working person.' I much more have that sensibility than what the public perceives as what a typical actor would have.
-- Michael Cudlitz -
[The] idealization of marriage is typical of those who are excluded from it: priests, gays, adolescents. It shows an extraordinary willful blindness.
-- Michael Warner -
I don't know what my version of a relationship or marriage is yet, because the typical model seems a little broken to me.
-- Michelle Williams -
I don't really have a favorite bass player. I listen to a lot of bluegrass. But then again, I'm not a typical bluegrass bass player. I was really into the Grateful Dead, and I still am - I don't listen to them too much, but for me they are a big influence.
-- Mike Gordon -
If we don't believe in Americans, who will? I do believe. I've seen it in the people of our very typical corner of the nation.
-- Mitch Daniels -
My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
-- Natalie Cole -
I'm not a typical couturier, although I really respect them.
-- Nicola Formichetti -
If that isn't typical male stupidity! If something doesn't work, kick it or swear at it!
-- Nora Roberts
