Quotes About Selection

Four years earlier I had been selected, with Kay Boyle, the writer, and a number of others, to go to Cambodia and come back and prove that there were no sanctuaries in that country.

I'm never mad about All-Star. It's guys who get snubbed every year who've proven they could be All-Stars. This league, there's 450 guys, and you're trying to pick 24 out of the group who are having a good year.

We all have personal favorites, whether we choose a god or a friend.

she took all the things of life for hers to choose from and apportion, as though she were continually picking out presents for herself from an inexhaustible counter.

The novelist makes his statements by selection, and if he is any good, he selects every word for a reason, every detail for a reason, every incident for a reason, and arranges them in a certain time-sequence for a reason. He demonstrates something that cannot possibly be demonstrated any other way than with a whole novel.

While choosing a fashion show, I take into consideration the designer and the collection. Then only I said yes to do a show.

I don't know if I have a favorite color.

Every set is a different experience, so it's hard to say which one's my favorite.

Favorite movie of all time? I hate being asked... that's like being asked, 'What's your favorite song?'

I don't believe in 'greatest'. I believe in favorites.

I don't have one movie that is my favorite, I have about 25-30 favorites.

You're not supposed to have a favourite book - it's like children.

26 is my favourite number.

I don't have a favourite designer. If I like the piece, I don't really care if it's any particular brand - I'll buy!

I'm fed up with democracy. In a democracy, people vote for the mayors. I wanted to build a city where I will choose the citizens.

Any song I don't feel good about, I shelve. Anything you ever hear me sing, it's because I want to.

In American fertility clinics, 75 percent of couples are requesting girls and not boys.

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few.

Sometimes with artists, I want to hear a few things before I buy the whole album.

Who would you rather be with: someone with more alternatives or someone with fewer?

I think filmmakers are always interested in getting the best actor that they can find, the person who's the most right for it.

People say I pick good films. Rather, good filmmakers choose me. The directors come to me, and I thank them for their trust in me.

In the digital age, we filter forward instead of filtering out. As a result, all that material is still available to us and to others to filter in their own ways, and to bring forward in other contexts.

At times, parents foist their own choices on kids and try to get them to read the classics. But kids have very high filters and don't take to it. At other times, parents simply don't know what books to select for their children and end up giving books that aren't appropriate.