Proficiently Quotes

#1. I don't like reading music. It's like learning a language. You can't read music proficiently overnight. It takes time, it's boring work.

William Eggleston

#2. Prior to being mugged I did not feel I had to carry a gun. However, I knew how to shoot a gun very proficiently. As a boy, I used to play cowboys and Indians all the time.

Bernhard Goetz

#3. To shoot a gun proficiently, including speed shooting, is much less of a skill than typing.

Bernhard Goetz

#4. I didn't start skiing until I was 50. My wife Lois taught me how to ski. I'm proficiently conservative.

Buzz Aldrin

#5. There are stars who are proficiently paranoid enough to hide what they really think. I can't.

Shirley Maclaine

#6. I did things with the microphone stand that no-one else has attempted to do.

Rod Stewart

#7. But, in the end, we editors just pass through. We all know that you, the readers, are the real carriers of the flame.

Alan Rusbridger

#8. You don't serve God by saying: the Church is ineffective, I'll have none of it. Your pain at its lack of effectiveness is a sign of your nearness to God. We help overcome this lack of effectiveness simply by suffering on account of it.

Flannery O'Connor

#9. During my first press conference as president, in answer to a direct question, I pointed out that, as good Marxist-Leninists, the Soviet leaders have openly and publicly declared that the only morality they recognize is that which will further their cause, which is world revolution.

Ronald Reagan

#10. If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.

Bodhidharma

#11. I'm a reading addict. I can't live without it, like someone who is addicted to drugs.

Hugo Chavez

#12. My parents, though very loving, were not what one would ever describe as outgoing and therefore when I was young I was quite shy and socially awkward. Having a camera changed all that. It gave me an excuse to go anywhere and approach anybody.

Derek Ridgers

#13. I feel like I'm supposed to make some comment to underscore the ridiculousness of it all, but honestly? It's sort of nice not to have to be cynical for a change. I guess it feels like I'm a part of something.

Becky Albertalli

#14. My dad, we'll be talking about goals for the next year. He's like, 'I think you can be here,' and I look at him like he's cross-eyed, like, 'Are you serious? That's so far out of my reach.' Well, then I always end up achieving it.

Miranda Leek

#15. Now I've a sheep and a cow, every body bids me good morrow.

Benjamin Franklin

#16. Living in a rural setting exposes you to so many marvelous things - the natural world and the particular texture of small-town life, and the exhilarating experience of open space.

Susan Orlean

#17. I can do lovers. I can do Sir Galahad types. I'm not going to limit myself in voice-overs to irascible old men.

Ed Asner

#18. What's interesting about writing is the invention, the creative thing. Writing about myself is a yawn.

Toni Morrison