Top 100 Weir's Quotes

#1. So what's the point of it all?"
"Seriously?" I asked. "Seriously? You're asking me for the meaning of life? Isn't that a little stereotypical?"
"Well it's a reasonable question," you persisted.

Andy Weir

Weir's Quotes #7052
#2. At six o'clok the young King's terrible sufferings finally ended. After his eyes had closed for the last time, the tempeste raged on. Later, superstitious folk claimed that Henry himself had sent it, and had risen from his grave in anger at the subversion of his will.

Alison Weir

Weir's Quotes #10001
#3. My family, the support of my friends, the amount of people that have written and come up to me on the street and said, 'Thank you for representing us,' and Adam Lambert, and Lady Gaga, that's been amazing.

Johnny Weir

Weir's Quotes #18816
#4. I think I've gotten more attention after the Olympics than any other U.S. athlete, and it's really great that people are recognizing who I am and what I do. You look at Shaq and you see a basketball player. You look at Tiger Woods and you see a golfer. But people are responding to who I am.

Johnny Weir

Weir's Quotes #24774
#5. Here's a woman who had survived the centrifuge, the vomit comet, hard-landing drills and 10k runs. A woman who fixed a simulated MDV computer failure while being spun around upside-down. But she was afraid of a tattoo needle.

Andy Weir

Weir's Quotes #33462
#6. Everything just changed. Watney's headed for Pathfinder.

Andy Weir

Weir's Quotes #35143
#7. 'Britain's Royal Families' became my first published book, in 1989, from The Bodley Head, and the rest of the story is - dare I say it? - history!

Alison Weir

Weir's Quotes #44726
#8. When you are an athlete, it's difficult to take time off and say you want to come back without everyone judging you and attacking you.

Johnny Weir

Weir's Quotes #58644
#9. The problem with our art form: it's so ephemeral, and catching performances can be so difficult ... the important thing is what happens at the moment of performance, for the people who made the effort to be there: it lives with them.

Judith Weir

Weir's Quotes #59902
#10. I do hope some of my work has a long lifetime. A piece that works out well this year may work out very well in twenty years' time as well, but I'm very much thinking about what's the right piece now, at this moment.

Judith Weir

Weir's Quotes #84124
#11. I'm going to finish off the last of Three's Company tonight. Frankly, I like Mr. Furley more than the Ropers.

Andy Weir

Weir's Quotes #93444
#12. I've looted that poor Hab for everything it could give me, and in return it's kept me alive for a year and a half. It's like the Giving Tree.

Andy Weir

Weir's Quotes #95426
#13. So I go out every night with a homemade sextant and sight Deneb. It's kind of silly if you think about it. I'm in my space suit on Mars and I'm navigating with sixteenth-century tools.

Andy Weir

Weir's Quotes #130461
#14. But oxygen's easier to find on Mars than you might think. The atmosphere is 95 percent CO2. And I happen to have a machine whose sole purpose is liberating oxygen from CO2. Yay, oxygenator!

Andy Weir

Weir's Quotes #141480
#15. A story in your head isn't a story. It's just a daydream until you actually write it down. So write it down.

Andy Weir

Weir's Quotes #150029
#16. I'm a huge fur fan; it's no secret to anyone anymore.

Johnny Weir

Weir's Quotes #153737
#17. I have a lot of offers to play for appearance fees. It's nice gravy, but it's not a big motivating factor for me, to go here and there just for money.

Mike Weir

Weir's Quotes #155876
#18. Many books open with an author's assurance of order. One slipped into their waters with a silent paddle ... But novels commenced with hesitation or chaos. Readers were never fully in balance. A door a lock a weir opened and they rushed through, one hand holding a gunnel, the other a hat.

Michael Ondaatje

Weir's Quotes #159465
#19. The Masters is one of golf's greatest traditions and Augusta is one of the best courses in the world. They are synonymous. It's an event that every golfer, and golf fan, looks forward to.

Mike Weir

Weir's Quotes #163966
#20. I admit it's fatally dangerous," Watney said. "But consider this: I'd get to fly around like Iron Man." "We'll keep working on ideas," Lewis said. "Iron Man, Commander. Iron Man.

Andy Weir

Weir's Quotes #164549
#21. Anything, Tim?" "Totally," he replied. "But we're staring at this black screen because it's way more interesting than pictures from Mars." "You're a smart-ass, Tim," Venkat said. "Noted.

Andy Weir

Weir's Quotes #174498
#22. Sure enough, the water heated up. That's not really a surprise, but it's nice to see thermodynamics being well behaved.

Andy Weir

Weir's Quotes #195677
#23. The danger of having too close deadlines ... It could lead you to just accept an avenue that's not quite good enough.

Judith Weir

Weir's Quotes #196629
#24. After a search of everyone's personal items (hey, if they wanted privacy, they shouldn't have abandoned me on Mars with their stuff)

Andy Weir

Weir's Quotes #197123
#25. That makes me think of spandex-covered football players. It's not me. I'm in rhinestones and velvet, not spandex.

Johnny Weir

Weir's Quotes #205487
#26. So what do we do, then? He's not going to decompose. He'll be there forever." "Not forever," Teddy said. "Within a year, he'll be covered in sand from normal weather activity.

Andy Weir

Weir's Quotes #219634
#27. It's really grinding to always play out of both sides of your mind and always be thinking what will offend people. Or what won't. But I'm strong enough to deal with that. I own that I'm freakish in my way.

Johnny Weir

Weir's Quotes #220561
#28. There's no way to be sure," Irene said. "The biggest threat is giving up hope. If he decides there's no chance to survive, he'll stop trying.

Andy Weir

Weir's Quotes #226319
#29. I've held onto Ugg boots. I will never graduate to Crocs, but Ugg boots are always and forever. That's my fashion stepchild.

Johnny Weir

Weir's Quotes #236923
#30. I have always had a certain aversion to heat. And for me, the name of the game on the stage is 'beat the heat.' It's always July under the lights.

Bob Weir

Weir's Quotes #241999
#31. I play outsiders. That's just the way it's gone for me, and I think that's fantastic. I like it because I've always been interested in how the other guy thinks. I want to know what's going on in his head.

Silas Weir Mitchell

Weir's Quotes #245267
#32. There's nothing like undeserved credit to make you feel shabby.

Charlene Weir

Weir's Quotes #267965
#33. But there's something more important we need to discuss: What is it with you and disco? I can understand the '70s TV because everyone loves hairy people with huge collars. But disco? Disco!?

Andy Weir

Weir's Quotes #285655
#34. Death's but one more to-morrow.

Silas Weir Mitchell

Weir's Quotes #291151
#35. It's the simple things in life that matter.

Andy Weir

Weir's Quotes #296412
#36. It's all good to go. No problems that I can see.

Andy Weir

Weir's Quotes #314728
#37. Figure skating is theatrical. It's artistic. It's elegant. It's extremely athletic. And there's a very specific audience for that.

Johnny Weir

Weir's Quotes #322379
#38. I was gifted with a life that was full of adventure. I've always believed, if you're gifted, that it's incumbent not to think about giving something back.

Bob Weir

Weir's Quotes #345904
#39. [09:09] MAV: You're sending me into space in a convertible.
[09:24] HOUSTON: There will be Hab canvas covering the holes. It will provide enough aerodynamics in Mars's atmosphere.
[09:38] MAV: So it's a ragtop. Much better.

Andy Weir

Weir's Quotes #350515
#40. Got my first e-mail from Hermes today. NASA's been limiting direct contact. I guess they're afraid I'll say something like "You abandoned me on Mars, you assholes!

Andy Weir

Weir's Quotes #360282
#41. It just feels nice to be an astronaut again. That's all it is. Not a reluctant farmer, not an electrical engineer, not a long-haul trucker. An astronaut.

Andy Weir

Weir's Quotes #360688
#42. So many people in the gay community have always asked me to come out, say it like it is, and help our cause. But for me ... I think my biggest statement I could give to the world is to be strong being myself ... you have to make something of yourself, and that's what makes us strong.

Johnny Weir

Weir's Quotes #361032
#43. It's a terrible thing to have my life depend on my half-assed handiwork.

Andy Weir

Weir's Quotes #382259
#44. I figure if there's a God, He won't mind, considering the situation I'm in.

Andy Weir

Weir's Quotes #402372
#45. The crushing, pitiful, and frequently just plain risible pathos of an unsuccessful actor/performer's life is well charted.

Arabella Weir

Weir's Quotes #402870
#46. MINDY TRUDGED to her computer. Today's shift began at 2:10 p.m. Her schedule matched Watney's every day. She slept when he slept. Watney simply slept at night on Mars, while Mindy had to drift forty minutes forward every day, taping aluminum foil to her windows to get any sleep at all.

Andy Weir

Weir's Quotes #410523
#47. I already knew that, of course. But there's a difference between knowing it and really experiencing it. All

Andy Weir

Weir's Quotes #416893
#48. Out here, it's just you and the ball.

Mike Weir

Weir's Quotes #416995
#49. I remember seeing Amy Sedaris in a stint where she played somebody's alcoholic mother in one scene and in the next she was Ross Perot. I remember thinking she was so awesome.

Stephnie Weir

Weir's Quotes #429966
#50. Don't bring a prop. It's almost like they were afraid nobody would know who they are.

Johnny Weir

Weir's Quotes #440736
#51. It's hard when something you love turns into something you hate.

Theresa Weir

Weir's Quotes #448711
#52. [08:31] JPL: Good, keep us posted on any mechanical or electronic problems. By the way, the name of the probe we're sending is Iris. Named after the Greek goddess who traveled the heavens with the speed of wind. She's also the goddess of rainbows. [08:47] WATNEY: Gay probe coming to save me. Got it.

Andy Weir

Weir's Quotes #450822
#53. I love the Olympic Games. The Olympics are an event that few can fathom but all can enjoy, and that's why athletes work our whole lives to put on the greatest show on Earth.

Johnny Weir

Weir's Quotes #486775
#54. Even if it's got a bigger problem, he's an engineer!" Dialing, he added, "Fixing things is his job!

Andy Weir

Weir's Quotes #492946
#55. The airlock's on its side, and I can hear a steady hiss. So either it's leaking or there are snakes in here. Either way, I'm in trouble.

Andy Weir

Weir's Quotes #509864
#56. could have finished faster, but I figured caution's best when setting fire to rocket fuel in an enclosed space.

Andy Weir

Weir's Quotes #516480
#57. Since mediaeval times, the King had been seen as two bodies in one: a mortal entity and "the King's person," representing unending royal authority; monarchs therefore referred to themselves in the plural form as "we.

Alison Weir

Weir's Quotes #522245
#58. That's my considered opinion. Fucked. Six days into what should

Andy Weir

Weir's Quotes #548405
#59. If no one saw - it didn't count. It's only when you eat in front of strangers or people that make you feel guilty that food is really fattening.

Arabella Weir

Weir's Quotes #549521
#60. Creating emotion was what my career was all about. I wanted people to laugh at me; I wanted people to cry with me. I wanted people to feel good or to think about something when they watched me. I think that's why, even not being an Olympic champion, I have such a huge following around the world.

Johnny Weir

Weir's Quotes #549598
#61. I'd say in general, my style is Johnny Weir style. It's my style. I can't classify it as anything else.

Johnny Weir

Weir's Quotes #577905
#62. I'm so close to Schiaparelli I can taste it. I guess it would taste like sand, mostly, but that's not the point.

Andy Weir

Weir's Quotes #578930
#63. It's of very little importance to me that I was born gay. It doesn't make me a better athlete, it doesn't make me a stronger person, it doesn't really do anything to enhance my life. It's just something I was born with, the same as green eyes.

Johnny Weir

Weir's Quotes #586348
#64. Obviously I believe in reincarnation and all that kind of stuff - I don't think anyone's going to be surprised to hear that.

Bob Weir

Weir's Quotes #595515
#65. Tomorrow night, I'll be in Giovanni Schiaparelli's favorite hole!

Andy Weir

Weir's Quotes #612453
#66. For tonight, I have to get back to Three's Company. I stopped last night in the middle of the episode where Mr. Roper saw something and took it out of context.

Andy Weir

Weir's Quotes #653547
#67. If one's honest about it, spending time in a car with children is pretty ghastly.

Arabella Weir

Weir's Quotes #664433
#68. The fame aspect of winning the Masters ... besides being married and becoming a father, that's a strong third there.

Mike Weir

Weir's Quotes #677247
#69. I enjoyed Jonathan Franzen's 'Freedom.' Would I make that into a film? I think it's better suited to television. That would very much be a dialogue and performance piece, and it would take some very skilful direction - but not my kind of directing. But I thought it was a real literary work.

Peter Weir

Weir's Quotes #681721
#70. Why has everything got to be about feelings these days? In the old days, no one knew what anyone was feeling and, what's more, they weren't expected to.

Arabella Weir

Weir's Quotes #710731
#71. I suppose being fierce is a very good thing, and a very cool thing. But more than fierce, I think I'm a strong person and a strong individual. And that's what I take with me every day.

Johnny Weir

Weir's Quotes #732498
#72. What's changed? I'm a dad. That's fundamental. Watching your kids grow, you go back a bit. You can watch a bug crawling around for minutes at a time
just sit and marvel at its complexity, the utter bugness of it. I've learned to do that again.

Bob Weir

Weir's Quotes #739278
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Andy Weir

Weir's Quotes #765131
#74. The NSA?"

"Yeah, they called and offered to help out. Same software they use for enhancing spy satellite imagery."

Venkat shrugged. "It's amazing how much red tape gets cut when everyone's rooting for one man to survive.

Andy Weir

Weir's Quotes #825552
#75. When I began making films, they were just movies: 'What's the new movie? What are you doing?' Now they're called 'adult dramas.'

Peter Weir

Weir's Quotes #835759
#76. Mars is a barren wasteland and I am completely alone here. I already knew that, of course. But there's a difference between knowing it and really experiencing it.

Andy Weir

Weir's Quotes #838290
#77. This golf course, you miss a shot a little bit off-line, it's going to bite you.

Mike Weir

Weir's Quotes #850983
#78. I cry at everything, even the length of the queue at Sainsbury's.

Arabella Weir

Weir's Quotes #862986
#79. But really, they did it because every human being has a basic instinct to help each other out. It might not seem that way sometimes, but it's true.

Andy Weir

Weir's Quotes #892164
#80. Since then, I've added my own shit to it as well. The worse it smells, the better things are going. That's the bacteria at work!

Andy Weir

Weir's Quotes #895583
#81. Anytime you get men in glitter, it's a flamboyant occasion!

Johnny Weir

Weir's Quotes #917546
#82. By my reckoning, I'm about 100 kilometers from Pathfinder. Technically it's called "Carl Sagan Memorial Station." But with all due respect to Carl, I can call it whatever the hell I want. I'm the King of Mars.

Andy Weir

Weir's Quotes #922771
#83. I don't take on a project unless I know the end result is going to make me happy. If I can't give 100 percent to something, I choose not to do it because it's very difficult to have so many pots on the fire at one time.

Johnny Weir

Weir's Quotes #928996
#84. The first Elizabeth film was an absolute travesty historically. It really was sloppy. Things like 'The Other Boleyn Girl' and 'The Tudors,' people's perception is distorted because of these. It matters to me as a historian, because I spend my life trying to get it right.

Alison Weir

Weir's Quotes #934088
#85. To them, equipment failure is terrifying. To me, it's "Tuesday.

Andy Weir

Weir's Quotes #942198
#86. I'm not a mama's boy or anything. I'm a full-grown man who only occasionally wears diapers (you have to in an EVA suit).

Andy Weir

Weir's Quotes #966538
#87. I'm pretty much fucked. That's my considered opinion. Fucked.

Andy Weir

Weir's Quotes #972621
#88. To sum up my idea of on-ice costume fashion sense, it's probably that too much is never enough.

Johnny Weir

Weir's Quotes #985199
#89. It was great! Straight-A student. Hanging around nerdy guys too scared to try anything. No wild side at all. You were every father's dream daughter." "Thanks, Dad, I - " "But then you got on a giant bomb that blasted you to Mars. And I mean that literally.

Andy Weir

Weir's Quotes #1010103
#90. Students think they must write down the idea immediately, but I tell them if it's a good idea it'll be in your head in five minutes' time.

Judith Weir

Weir's Quotes #1010971
#91. Nobody gets lucky all the time. Nobody can win all the time. Nobody's a robot. Nobody's perfect.

Johnny Weir

Weir's Quotes #1011285
#92. I think it's real important that people understand where the music comes from. If you can see where the music comes from, you can also see the future. It gives you a trajectory.

Bob Weir

Weir's Quotes #1012392
#93. I was born too late to experience Apollo 11, though I do trek to Dad's house every time there's some space event. There's something awesome about crossing your fingers and watching a tense Mission Control room do their thing.

Andy Weir

Weir's Quotes #1028105
#94. I started the day with a potato. I washed it down with some Martian coffee. That's my name for "hot water with a caffeine pill dissolved in it." I ran out of real coffee months ago.

Andy Weir

Weir's Quotes #1034792
#95. Many people have done really well pulling their characters out; I think 'Wayne's World' really hit the mark.

Stephnie Weir

Weir's Quotes #1035447
#96. When I met Peter Weir, we did a movie called 'Master and Commander' together, and that's when I really started to understand the power of acting, the power of directing, finding the emotion in performance.

Robert Stromberg

Weir's Quotes #1037254
#97. Until quite recently women's histories were largely overlooked but in the wake of feminism there has been increasing interest in retrieving them.

Alison Weir

Weir's Quotes #1053194
#98. Things didn't go exactly as planned, but I'm not dead, so it's a win.

Andy Weir

Weir's Quotes #1056710
#99. A king was the Lord's anointed, hallowed at his coronation with holy oil.

Alison Weir

Weir's Quotes #1076734
#100. It's nice to feel needed ... it's better to feel wanted.

Ingrid Weir

Weir's Quotes #1143478

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