Picturish Quotes & Sayings

If you look at television shows, which of course are fictional so you don't expect them to be real, but they're constantly showing career women who are also successful mothers and also look gorgeous. And we fall into believing that these fictional lives are somehow accurate depictions of what our real lives should be about. — Debora Spar

Self-driving cars will enable car-sharing even in spread-out suburbs. A car will come to you just when you need it. And when you are done with it, the car will just drive away, so you won't even have to look for parking. — Sebastian Thrun

Dancing is forbidden to Christians. Isn't it suggestive that the word ballet comes from the Greek ballo, which is also the origin of diabolos, "devil"?8 — Peter J. Leithart

There's a tendency at the senior and middle-manager level to be too big-picturish and too superficial. There is a phrase, "The devil is in the details." One can formulate brilliant global strategies whose executability is zero. It's only through familiarity with details - the capability of the individuals who have to execute, the marketplace, the timing - that a good strategy emerges. I like to work from details to big pictures. — Andy Grove

They don't wait for something to happen. They wait to happen to something. — Cath Crowley

I can see how he (Sandy Koufax) won twenty-five games. What I don't understand is how he lost five. — Yogi Berra

I take great pride in recalling that I could open in a play on Broadway or in London's West End and fill a theatre on the strength of my name - Steed's name. — Patrick Macnee

About the best thing an actor can do when all is said and done is to make people laugh. — Ted Levine

One week before my 17th birthday, I had a blind date with June Rose, a television actress on network soap operas, a model, and a regular on the popular Dick Clark's Saturday night 'American Bandstand' show from New York. We were married five years later, one week after my graduation from Columbia. — Robert C. Merton

If I am elected President, I will end the special interest monopoly in Washington, D.C. — Donald Trump

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting. — Edmund Burke

Older actors, and women in particular, are getting more opportunities. It pleases me, its very good news for us. They say that people are living longer, and maybe it's just that there's more of us out there. — Christopher Walken

And I wonder
if my family knows
that when we're not careful
not quick enough
things will fall to rot and ruin
so far
so badly
they can't be saved — Kelsey Sutton

Collaboration is just, really, a group of people getting in a room with their eye on a very similar prize and wanting to come out with the same show. The director, ultimately, is the guy in front of whom the buck stops. So, he has to have the courage to prevail. But, he has got to have a huge amount of respect for his collaborators. — Harold Prince