Introduction Quotes · Page 3

Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination.

— Tim Robbins

Now here's a funky introduction of how nice I am, Tell your mother, tell your father, send a telegram.

— Anonymous

As the old saying goes, for somebody as famous as you, you don't need any introduction.

— Chuck Grassley

[Heresy is] the dislocation of a complete and self-supporting scheme by the introduction of a novel denial of some essential part therein.

— Hilaire Belloc

You can only conceive of what lies beyond the state of mind you are in from the point of view of the…

— Frederick Lenz

The introduction of so powerful an agent as steam [to a carriage on wheels] will make a great change in the situation…

— Thomas Jefferson

I don't see how an epigram, being a bolt from the blue, with no introduction or cue, ever gets itself writ.

— William James

After this happens again and again, we reach a point were there is nothing but satori, which is what nirvikalpa samadhi is…

— Frederick Lenz

Bond's introduction: "Bond. James Bond." Repeated in 17 subsequent Bond films. Number One in the Top Ten Most Famous Movie Quotes. -The…

— Sean Connery

I suppose when you do it correctly, a good introduction and a good outro makes the song feel like it's coming out…

— Bruce Springsteen

Zen is a very fast path to enlightenment, fast in comparison to some other paths, not fast for the person who practices…

— Frederick Lenz

[ 1600 Penn] is an ensemble comedy about a family. It just happens to utilize the fact that my character is now…

— Josh Gad

I'm pretty good with talking to girls if I have an introduction, but I'm the worst at trying to go pick up…

— Bryan Greenberg

English life is seventh-eighths below the surface, like an iceberg, and living in England for a year constitutes merely an introduction to…

— Margaret Halsey

In advanced Zen a person comes to realize that the existence of things and their ability to perceive them correctly is completely…

— Frederick Lenz

I watched 'Free Willy' probably 100 times. I nearly wore out the VHS tape. That movie was my introduction to Michael Madsen.…

— Callum Turner

My introduction into making records was through a sampler, and that's what I did for a long time. And through doing that…

— RJD2

nobody ever wrote to me saying"you know ender's game was a pretty good book, but you know what it really needs a…

— Orson Scott Card

“What is a great love of books? It is something like a personal introduction to the great and good men of all…

— John Bright

Introduction To Poetry I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide or…

— Billy Collins

I once was asked to contribute to a mushroom poem anthology. I didn't have anything, and so instead ended up writing the…

— Jane Hirshfield

Shortly after the birth control pill was approved for public distribution, one woman wrote to John Rock, its inventor, "You should be…

— Malcolm Gladwell

It's not like it's a brand new vocabulary that permits to have a new reality. It's rather a new vocabulary that lets…

— Judith Butler

“The conclusion of Dowell's narrative offers not a resolution, so much as a plangent confirmation of complexities. While Ford would certainly have…

— Zoë Heller

We see signs of it perhaps for 28 das or 34 days, then it goes away. Yet we are different.

— Frederick Lenz

I left Apple in April of 1984, pretty soon after the introduction of the Mac.

— Andy Hertzfeld

The introduction of LSD and psychedelics into the culture produced a transformation of the entire culture, the consciousness of the culture.

— Ralph Metzner

Zen is the path that focuses the most upon meditation. It is almost exclusively a path of meditation.

— Frederick Lenz

The introduction of political pluralism often quickly led to bad results.

— Omar Bongo

“But as we all know, rock ‘n’ roll will never die, and education too, as Henry Adams always sez, keeps going on…

— Thomas Pynchon

Intended to serve as an introduction to both the linguistic and also the practical study of spoken English.

— Henry Sweet

My older brother had a lot of Elvis on vinyl, and really, that was my first introduction to music during the Fifties.

— Kiki Dee

Zen is the fastest method I know of, aside from mysticism, of dissolving the fixations people have about spiritual practice and themselves.

— Frederick Lenz

The best introduction to the psychological world of one of the most important and gifted writers of our time.

— Italo Calvino

A great introduction to cultures is their cuisine. It not only reflects their evolution, but also their beliefs and traditions.

— Vikas Khanna

According to Zen Buddhist cosmology there are ten thousand different states of mind to view and understand life through.

— Frederick Lenz

My first European game was a qualifying match against a team from Luxembourg. That was my introduction.

— Martin O'Neill

The wearer of smiles and the bearer of a kindly disposition needs no introduction, but is welcome anywhere.

— Orison Swett Marden

“Saying that you do not remember something or someone is a less embarrassing or hurtful way of saying that you do not…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It's much easier to get a reception from someone if there is an introduction versus randomly trying to get in front of…

— Brad Feld