Quotes About Wayne Static

#1. Whatever measure of influence I had as a result of the importance which the world attaches to the Nobel Peace Prize would have to be used to bring the philosophy of nonviolence to all the world's people who grapple with the age-old problem of racial injustice.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#2. There are about 20 people in my life that I want to love me, and none of them are the 'Daily Mail.'

Martin Freeman

#3. To me no profitable speech sounds ill.

Sophocles

#4. I am very proud to be African. I want to defend African people, and I want to show to the world that African players can be as good as the Europeans and South Americans.

Yaya Toure

#5. Corporate finance, which services the corporations and governments that borrow money, and that are known as "clients," is, by comparison, a refined and unworldly place. Because they don't risk money, corporate financiers are considered wimps by traders.

Michael Lewis

#6. For anyone inclined to caricature environmental history as 'environmental determinism,' the contrasting histories of the Dominican Republic and Haiti provide a useful antidote. Yes, environmental problems do constrain human societies, but the societies' responses also make a difference.

Jared Diamond

#7. Static puppets, I wanted them to move, they're looking out the windows, but we didn't have time to rig those. I have more ideas than I can execute also every time that I do anything. I put the puppets in because people love 'em. I'm a populist in that sense.

Wayne White

#8. I just want to stay away from people and read books.

John Green

#9. Nature is a mere pretext for a decorative composition, plus sentiment. It suggests emotion, and I translate that emotion into art.

Georges Braque

#10. I thought Bill Bryson's 'A Short History of Nearly Everything' was remarkable. Managing to be entertaining while still delivering all that hard science was a pretty good trick to pull off.

Mark Haddon

#11. To imagine yourself inside another person ... is what a storywriter does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and his last too, I suppose.

Eudora Welty

#12. What we see taking place in the church today is the reduction of God to an idol.

Peter Rollins

#13. We live a pretty real life within our Hollywood selves. I'm not working 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, by any means.

Rhea Perlman

#14. Have a strong vision about the story you want to tell and how you want to tell it.

Robert Redford