Field Quotes

Politics is a field where the choice lies constantly between two blunders.
John Morley

Politics, Two, Between

I have long been interested in landscape history, and when younger and more robust I used to do much tramping of the English landscape in search of ancient field systems, drove roads, indications of prehistoric settlement.
Penelope Lively

History, Long, Used

And, of course, the fact that Maurice Strong, a Canadian, was in charge made it important for us to pull up our socks and become leaders in this field. Now, here is a field we should be a leader in!
Brian Mulroney

Strong, Important, Made

I knew from a young age that I wanted to be an actor. I never even thought about other careers. The acting field is certainly not the path many Indian parents encourage their children to take, but mine were very supportive. They wanted me to have an education, but understood that this is what I wanted to do.
Archie Panjabi

Education, Age, Children

It's kind of nice in some ways having an Olympic Trials where I finished second. You can kind of go in more under the radar facing a 2:03 guy and facing a lot of dudes who are faster than I am, whereas, before Beijing, I had one of the top 10 times in the field, or something like that.
Ryan Hall

Nice, Before, Trials

The vast majority of people who watch baseball can properly call 95% of all plays that happen on the field. My job is to teach you how to call the other 5%.
Jim Evans

Job, Baseball, Happen

The referee will now keep track of the time on the field and the shootouts have finally been banned.
Cobi Jones

Time, Keep, Finally

I'd like to encourage people to please keep reading-and most importantly, to please keep trying new writers. The only way we can bring fresh new material into the field is if people go out and buy it.
Terri Windling

Trying, Keep, Bring

One, we committed to put about 650 people in the field to focus totally on customer satisfaction.
Sanjay Kumar

Focus, Put, Committed

It's hard to generalize, because they're all different. When I started, I decided to take as much advantage as I could of the freedom offered by the SF field.
Walter Jon Williams

Freedom, Hard, Different

Well, of course I would choose to be the top scientist in my field.
Jeff Goldblum

Choose, Top, Scientist

My theory of change is that there are already millions of people working day in and day out on the ground to deliver on promises on global change. We need to strengthen those institutions and help those people in the field.
Chris Hughes

Change, Help, Working

I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private individuals.
Joseph Heller

War, Government, Whole

So nevertheless, what I'm saying is that what one is - one's parameters are constantly narrowed by one's success, and my desire is to widen my field even if I risk failure.
Jeremy Irons

Success, Failure, Saying

My first undertaking in the way of scientific experiment was in the field of economics and psychology.
Simon Newcomb

Scientific, Economics, Psychology

If you don't get on the field and play then you will be missing out.
Michael Schenker

The computing field is always in need of new cliches.
Alan Perlis

Cliches, Computing

I saw and I met a lot of people who were in the field. It also provided a context in which I came to respect what the actor did, because I saw how difficult it actually was to do.
Ron Silver

Respect, Difficult, Actually

I've seen people with a tremendous amount of educational background in the field not turn out to be terribly good actors, and I've seen people with no education in the field turn out to be people that I admire quite a bit.
Ron Silver

Education, Good, Seen

I wanted to write a film and I thought the best way to do so was to train myself within the field... It was just like a cycle of people trying to make it, not making it, doing extra work, and it was pretty depressing in the end.
Michelle Rodriguez

Work, Best, End

If you get it out into the urban field it's going to be used or misused but it'll also probably provide a way of people acknowledging what the aesthetic is about because people have to confront it every day.
Richard Serra

Used, Urban, Aesthetic

I had a fear of becoming anything, a fear of becoming a specialist. I might have become a doctor, but if you become a doctor, that's your specialty in life and you are defined by it. One of the attractions of being a writer is that you're never a specialist. Your field is entirely open; your field is the entire human condition.
Graham Swift

Life, Fear, Human

Well, the wonderful thing about making movies, oddly enough, is that they're sort of highly motivated graduate studies in one or another field.
Sydney Pollack

Movies, Enough, Another

So what I did on the field was the essence of what I am. Remember me like that.
Steve Carlton

Remember, Essence

If a liberal political philosophy stands for anything, and I am no longer sure it does, then it must mean that we are committed to the leveling of the playing field for everyone.
Daniel Keys Moran

Political, Mean, Philosophy

I think any time you have too much education in one certain field, that can sometimes play against you.
Amber Tamblyn

Education, Time, Play

The first movie I saw - and I don't know if it influenced me - was Ben Hur. We watched it outside in a corn field, and it ran backwards, so the first movie I ever saw was Ben Hur backwards.
Roberto Benigni

Movie, Outside, Influenced

No matter how loud the stadium is, once you're on that field and that offense walks up to the line, it's silent. You can only hear the guys on the field. It's amazing how much concentration you can have when it's required and how powerful your mind is to give it to you.
Michael Strahan

Amazing, Mind, Powerful

The men resent a woman getting any honour in what they consider is essentially their field. Men painters mostly despise women painters. So I have decided to stop squirming, to throw any honour in with Canada and women.
Emily Carr

Women, Men, Woman

The text is a limited field of possible constructions.
Paul Ricoeur

Possible, Text, Limited

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