Aaron Mankin Quotes

I became a marine mom with the signing of a paper, but it would take a phone call, late one night, for me to fully absorb the impact this new title would have on my life. ~ Diana Mankin Phelps

The way I saw the world changed in an instant. My eyes were opened to a need in this country that was just beginning to be recognized. The floodgates were opened, and our battle-injured warriors filled our military hospitals. ~ Diana Mankin Phelps

If I am writing a movie and I am stuck, I can call the studio and tell them it's delayed. You can't do that with television - you have air dates to meet. ~ Aaron Sorkin

Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession's phlegm, and needs no ancestors. ~ Aaron Hill

Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth. ~ Aaron Hill

With the work that I do as a director, I've got dialogue, camera movement, and character blocking to help create a tone to the piece. In photography, those elements are somewhat void so that tone becomes a bit more subtle but still equally important. ~ Aaron Ruell

You know, there are some words I've known since I was a schoolboy: ' With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.' Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron Satie as wisdom and warning. The first time any man's freedom is trodden on we're all damaged. I fear that today... ~ Jeri Taylor

We'll go to El Dorado together. You'll have your vengeance and I'll have my woman. We have all the time in the world, but let's hope it doesn't take that long. ~ Aaron Thier

The mold that everyone is seeing nowadays is kind of the Aaron Rodgers mold - I try to mix and match from the different quarterbacks. ~ Robert Griffin III

I'm sure glad this isn't my home ball park. ~ Hank Aaron

I'm getting to be a real pro at coming into things midstream and trying to catch up. ~ Aaron Ashmore

A real Deadly Dolly," sniggered Mick. And then, "Ouch!" when she whacked him. ~ Aaron D'Este

I was always told at school that you had to have a back-up plan, but all I ever wanted to do was act. There was no plan B for me. ~ Aaron Johnson

You always take a little bit back with you at the end of the day. I always put a little bit of myself into the characters, too. You find parallels, points of connection, things like that. But I'm not an actor who gets so incredibly haunted by my characters that I can't come back. ~ Aaron Stanford

Obsess your way to success ~ Aaron Lauritsen

I was coming to realize that if you don't look for something, then you rarely find it. ~ Aaron Starmer

Gone is the boy with the guns and the skeletons in his closet. These hands holding me have never held a weapon. These hands have never touched death. These hands are perfect and kind and tender. ~ Tahereh Mafi

Our shortcomings drive us, motivate us – to work harder or realize another purpose/talent. ~ Aaron B. Powell

I'm a writer, so I interview people all the time, and I think of it as being a very creative process. Giving interviews is actually one of the most creative parts of the film promotion process. ~ Aaron Rose

I'm typically a 'just drink water' kind of guy. I was a bodybuilder in high school, so I used to - food to me was, 'there are this many grams of carbohydrates and proteins, and I need these micronutrients in order to grow and be fit,' and I ate in order to live and not live in order to eat, and I think most people are the opposite. ~ Aaron Patzer

For some reason or other there was in me the desire to see the world clean and fresh and alive, as primitive things are clean and fresh and alive. The so-called documentary picture left me wanting something. ~ Aaron Siskind

You may be sitting in a room reading this book. Imagine one note struck upon the piano. Immediately that one note is enough to change the atmosphere of the room - proving that the sound element in music is a powerful and mysterious agent, which it would be foolish to deride or belittle. ~ Aaron Copland

I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop. ~ Aaron Douglas

I'm sick of girls who don't know how to high-five, ~ Aaron Sorkin

It was surreal to play opposite Angela Lansbury and Elaine Stritch, Bernadette Peters and Catherine Zeta-Jones. There was so much to learn just from watching them, and it was an honor to share the stage with women who have accomplished what they have. ~ Aaron Lazar

Why do you like birds so much?' I asked.
A look of pity flitted over her face, followed by a smile. 'Because they can fly, silly. ~ Aaron Hartzler

Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright. ~ Aaron Sorkin

The two-party system is a bad joke on the American people; when it comes to Republicans and Democrats remember they are two sides of the same coin. Voting for the lesser of two evils is still a vote for evil and not an answer to our problems. A vote for a Republican or a Democrat will not fix anything and is a wasted vote. ~ Aaron Russo

I was also very lucky to be a teammate of two of the greatest players to have ever played the game. I learned very early on by playing for Frank Robinson and with Henry Aaron that even the greatest players in the game were just one of the guys. ~ Robin Yount

I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop. ~ Aaron Huey

We need to download scientific journals and upload them to file-sharing networks. ~ Aaron Swartz

The Lord is my Rock. He has always been there, always present at good times and bad; and to me when I feel His presence, my life is full. ~ Aaron Rodgers

Someone once asked me ... whether I waited for inspiration. My answer was: "Every day!" ~ Aaron Copland

When I create I don't think in technical or mathematical terms until the idea is formulated Musical composition is formulated in improvisation. Once a pianist like myself sits down and begins to play and start thinking about what I am writing all of a sudden a little tune will emerge, a little spot light and I'll go, "That's interesting." ~ Aaron Zigman

I sold my soul to the devil in L.A ~ Aaron Lewis

What you learn about yourself is that you continue to see that you're selfish. It's so easy, in our Laodicean culture with all the different things that grab our minds that aren't of eternal value, to let those tentacles wrap themselves around your heart. That's one of the reasons why we love going overseas. It helps us to break free of those things. We've been on all of these trips, but it's easy to slide back into the selfishness of life. That's what we find out about ourselves. ~ Aaron Kampman

That's the wonder of the internet. It's the power of numbers: get enough people to retweet something, someone might see it. ~ Aaron Paul

As photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs. Move on objects with your eye straight on, to the left, around on the right. Watch them grow large as they approach, group and regroup as you shift your position. Relationships gradually emerge and sometimes assert themselves with finality. And that's your picture. ~ Aaron Siskind

President Josiah Bartlet: Good. I like your show. I like how you call homosexuality an abomination.

Dr. Jenna Jacobs: I don't say homosexuality is an abomination, Mr. President. The Bible does.

President Josiah Bartlet: Yes, it does. Leviticus.

Dr. Jenna Jacobs: 18:22.

President Josiah Bartlet: Chapter and verse. I wanted to ask you a couple of questions while I had you here. I'm interested in selling my youngest daughter into slavery as sanctioned in Exodus 21:7. She's a Georgetown sophomore, speaks fluent Italian, always cleared the table when it was her turn. What would a good price for her be? While thinking about that, can I ask another? My Chief of Staff Leo McGarry insists on working on the Sabbath. Exodus 35:2 clearly says he should be put to death. Am I morally obligated to kill him myself, or is it okay to call the police? Here's one that's really important 'cause we've got a lot of sports fans in this town: Touching the skin of a dead pig makes one unclean. Leviticus 11:7. If they promise to wear gloves, can the Washington Redskins still play football? Can Notre Dame? Can West Point? Does the whole town really have to be together to stone my brother John for planting different crops side by side? Can I burn my mother in a small family gathering for wearing garments made from two different threads? Think about those questions, would you? One last thing: While you may be mistaking this for your monthly meeting of the Ignora ~ Aaron Sorkin

Do things that incumbents can't or won't do because it's economically or technically infeasible. ~ Aaron Levie

I think that if I couldn't write, I would be unemployable. ~ Aaron Sorkin

Mornings were good. Cold mornings, rainy ones. It didn't matter. They were new beginnings. ~ Aaron Starmer

I thought it was a huge conflict of interest to be the director and the subject - it's very sketchy territory to be in. I've seen what's happened to other directors who have done that. ~ Aaron Rose

Our responsibility is to captivate you for however long we've asked for your attention. That said, there is tremendous drama to be gotten from the great, what you would say, heavy issues. ~ Aaron Sorkin

Soooooo, trying to grow a beard?" Nope. Just checking out on life. ~ Aaron Goldfarb