Appleby Quotes & Sayings

What most people underestimate, he suggests, is how much time they spend on small tasks and small diversions that are of little consequence: ten minutes here, twenty minutes there. Over the course of a day it adds up to more time than you might think. If all those bits of time are devoted single-mindedly to what really interests - or obsesses - you, Marshall suggests, a big window opens. — Timothy Appleby

I never went to any of the Hollywood child parties. — Shiri Appleby

The people were just so lovely and accommodating and had really interesting questions and it was just interesting to see how the show is actually received in so many different countries. — Shiri Appleby

Appleby was as good at shooting crap as he was at playing Ping-Pong, and he was as good at playing Ping-Pong as he was at everything else. Everything Appleby did, he did well. Appleby was a fair-haired boy from Iowa who believed in God, Motherhood, and the American Way of Life, without ever thinking about any of them, and everybody who knew him liked him.
"I hate that son of a bitch," Yossarian growled. — Joseph Heller

Oh, they're there all right," Orr had assured him about the flies in Appleby's eyes after Yossarian's fist fight in the officers' club, "although he probably doesn't even know it. That's why he can't see things as they really are."

"How come he doesn't know it?" inquired Yossarian.

"Because he's got flies in his eyes," Orr explained with exaggerated patience. "How can he see he's got flies in his eyes if he's got flies in his eyes? — Joseph Heller

We all say, 'You don't have to run around playing all these tournaments and trying to conquer the world like Dr. Evil.' — Stuart Appleby

The Masters is a very important tournament. You don't want to jeopardize your chances. The sponsors understand that. — Stuart Appleby

I feel like I get really stressed out sometimes. I just want someone to tell me, "Relax, it's all going to be okay." I think that's all we really need. — Shiri Appleby

I want to do work where I have something to say. — Shiri Appleby

Watching somebody else fail definitely makes you feel better with what you've accomplished and where your standing is in life. — Shiri Appleby

I love doing a television show. It just always feels like it's a little while before you find something that feels unique and that feels like a character that you really want to play for awhile. — Shiri Appleby

It is important to note that multiculturalism does not share the postmodernist stance. Its passions are political; its assumptionsempirical; its conception of identities visceral. For it, there is no doubting that history is something that happened and that those happenings have left their mark within our collective consciousness. History for multiculturalists is not a succession of dissolving texts, but a tense tangle of past actions that have reshaped the landscape, distributed the nation's wealth, established boundaries, engendered prejudices, and unleashed energies. — Joyce Appleby

I'd love to be a huge television director. I definitely want to do that. I could imagine me going more and more into that, as I age. — Shiri Appleby

The top golfers in the world are like Formula One cars when it comes to their swings. — Stuart Appleby

Once you start to listen to your voice, you start to feel the power in that. — Shiri Appleby

I don't remember too many rounds where you get shots given to you. Usually, ones are taken away. — Stuart Appleby

I never got to the point of needing drugs or thinking about giving up myself. — Stuart Appleby

Our sense of worth, of well-being, even our sanity depends upon our remembering. But, alas, our sense of worth, our well-being, our sanity also depend upon our forgetting. — Joyce Appleby

The lead actress is like the host of the party, but when you're the lead actress and you're a producer, you're really throwing the party. You have so much control in making sure everyone is having a really good time and everyone is heard. — Shiri Appleby

Americans believe if you go to college, you have something to fall back on, which makes sense. I don't have any degrees. If I hadn't become a golfer, I have no idea what I would be doing with my life. — Stuart Appleby

I was from the bush, watching Greg Norman on TV, but it was a world away. — Stuart Appleby

I think dating is all about role playing, and figuring out what you want and don't want. You figure out more about yourself by meeting people. You're like, "I'm not right for that person, but why am I not?" I think dating is a really interesting journey. — Shiri Appleby

Contention is inseparable from creating knowledge. It is not contention we should try to avoid, but discourses that attempt to suppress contention. — Joyce Appleby

In America, if you want to make it as a golfer, you go to college on a scholarship. In Australia, you go to the airport with a plane ticket. The competition just isn't there. — Stuart Appleby

Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle.
'That's some catch, that Catch-22,' he observed.
'It's the best there is,' Doc Daneeka agreed.
Yossarian saw it clearly in all its spinning reasonableness. There was an elliptical precision about its perfect pairs of parts that was graceful and shocking, like good modern art, and at times Yossarian wasn't quite sure he saw it at all, just the way he was never quite sure about good modern art or about the flies Orr saw in Appleby's eyes. he had Orr's word to take for Appleby's eyes. — Joseph Heller

I've been watching so many movies and they all have to do with the DVDs. It's just so much more convenient. — Shiri Appleby

The Catholic Church also opposes any effort to make it easier to deport children; last week, the archbishop of Chicago, Cardinal Francis E. George, said he had offered facilities in his diocese to house some of the children, and on Monday, bishops in Dallas and Fort Worth called for lawyers to volunteer to represent the children at immigration proceedings. "We have to put our money where our mouth is in this country," said Kevin Appleby, the director of migration policy for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. "We tell other countries to protect human rights and accept refugees, but when we get a crisis on our border, we don't know how to respond." Republicans have rejected calls by Democrats for $2.7 billion in funds to respond to the crisis, demanding changes in immigration law to make it easier to send children back to Central America. And while President Obama says he is open to some changes, many Democrats have opposed them, and Congress is now deadlocked. — Anonymous

After years of struggling with how I looked, I'm pretty comfortable and proud of my body now. — Shiri Appleby

I always say golf's a really good exposer of a player's personality. — Stuart Appleby

There are a lot of different sides to me. I don't know if I'm always peaches-and-cream. — Shiri Appleby

On going vegetarian." I was sitting here eating my plate of chicken salad, and suddenly I looked down and saw all the meat on my plate and just wasn't hungry anymore. So i've decided I'm not going to eat meat." — Shiri Appleby

Television: teacher, mother, secret lover.' HOMER SIMPSON — Marion Appleby

I think from here on it's up to me to prove that I'm growing up and that I have other things to say, but in terms of the show it definitely gave me all of the opportunities I've had so far. — Shiri Appleby

I find that people are constantly coming up to me now. There's been a definite surge of people recognizing me and I'm not sure if it has to do with the DVDs or not, but I've sort of assumed that it does because the show has been off the air for three years now. — Shiri Appleby

If a cow walked into this room, I'd probably walk out. I could milk it, but my dad never forced me to do a lot of chores like that, mostly because he loved doing it himself. — Stuart Appleby

I had a really normal childhood except I acted. It was like, my brother played soccer, and I was on television sometimes. — Shiri Appleby

There was a scene early on during the first season of Roswell and I broke down crying. Since then, I've always just been able to do it. — Shiri Appleby

It's really important to just accept who we are, and find somebody who accepts us for who we are. — Shiri Appleby

As an actor, you're just brought on to fill one role, so it's nice to see what the entire journey is like. As much as I'd be allowed to do it, I would do it. I love it. — Shiri Appleby

She wasn't as naive and innocent as she was in the first season. — Shiri Appleby

I felt like Jason Behr and I had such a unique chemistry. He just walked in and we started reading together, it was just there — Shiri Appleby

If you are a millionaire beset by blackmailers or anyone else to whose comfort the best legal advice is essential, and have decided to put your affairs in the hands of the ablest and discreetest firm in London, you proceed through a dark and grimy entry and up a dark and grimy flight of stairs; and, having felt your way along a dark and grimy passage, you come at length to a dark and grimy door. There is plenty of dirt in other parts of Ridgeway's Inn, but nowhere is it so plentiful, so rich in alluvial deposits, as on the exterior of the offices of Marlowe, Thorpe, Prescott, Winslow and Appleby. As you tap on the topmost of the geological strata concealing the ground-glass of the door, a sense of relief and security floods your being. For in London grubbiness is the gauge of a lawyer's respectability. — P.G. Wodehouse

They ask questions like 'do you believe in aliens' and those types of things. They were really interested in aliens, and that was really something that the Japanese have an interest in, and they are also very big fans of romances. — Shiri Appleby

Dance as if no one's watching, love as if it's never going to hurt. — Stuart Appleby

I don't know where 12 months has gone. — Stuart Appleby

I think the show has sort of given me a name in this business and allowed a lot of people the opportunity to see what I can do, and it's just sort of like a sweet starting point. — Shiri Appleby

I was slightly disappointed, but also encouraged, because I put myself in position to win a major, which is all even Tiger says he tries to do. — Stuart Appleby

I took my waitress uniform. Seemed fitting. — Shiri Appleby

I didn't really get into golf until I was about 14. My mom and dad were taking lessons from a pro an hour and a half from our farm in Cohuna, Australia. When they got home, I'd ask my mom to explain everything they learned - drills and all. — Stuart Appleby

Clarification is not to clarify things. It is to put one's self in the clear (Sir Humphrey Appleby) — Jonathan Lynn & Anthony Jay

Paperwork is the religion of the Civil Service. I can just imagine Sir Humphrey Appleby on his deathbed, surround by wills and insurance claim forms, looking up and saying, 'I cannot go yet, God, I haven't done the paperwork. — Jonathan Lynn & Anthony Jay

I certainly don't think adrenalin coursing through your veins, is going to help with the fine motor skills of golf. — Stuart Appleby

America has given me everything Australia couldn't. I grew up on a dairy farm. Now I live in Isleworth, a gated community in Orlando with Tiger Woods down the street. — Stuart Appleby

I had to do something special coming in. I didn't do it, so I had to do it in the playoff. Winning the Mercedes is awesome. Winning three times is a dream come true. — Stuart Appleby

It was Adam Appleby's misfortune that at the moment of awakening from sleep his consciousness was immediately flooded with everything he least wanted to think about — David Lodge

Exploitation is not exclusively capitalist, but wealth creation is. — Joyce Appleby

Rarely has a collection of essays from a dozen scholars created a whole greater than the sum of its parts, but Capitalism Takes Command conveys with detail, coherence, and sophistication the changes in the American economy in the nineteenth century under the multiple imperatives of capitalism. — Joyce Appleby

I can certainly see how people are overcome by depression. — Stuart Appleby

As an actor, I love being pushed. I love the feeling of, "Oh my god, I have to keep trying. What else is there to do?". — Shiri Appleby

Appleby was a fair-haired boy from Iowa who believed in God, Motherhood and the American Way of Life, without ever thinking about any of them, and everybody who knew him liked him. — Joseph Heller

Miss Appleby, her library books, and her story-telling sessions were very popular with all the children in Heavenly Valley. To Nancy and Plum they were a magic carpet that whisked them out of the dreariness and drudgery of their lives at Mrs. Monday's and transported them to palaces in India, canals in Holland, pioneer stockades during the Indian wars, cattle ranches in the West, mountains in Switzerland, pagodas in China, igloos in Alaska, jungles in Africa, castles in England, slums in London, gardens in Japan, or most important of all, into happy homes where there were mothers and fathers and no Mrs. Mondays or Marybelles. — Betty MacDonald

Getting through the nights is the toughest part. Being alone. Not having her there to talk to. — Stuart Appleby