Famous Quotes By Bruce Springsteen

 

1. Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers. So I let the mystery settle into my music. I don't deny anything, I don't advocate anything, I just live with it.
2. And whether you're drawn to gospel music or church music or honky-tonk music, it informs your character and it informs your talent.
3. Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.
4. But then I go through long periods where I don't listen to things, usually when I'm working. In between the records and in between the writing I suck up books and music and movies and anything I can find.
5. Certainly tolerance and acceptance were at the forefront of my music.
6. For me, I was somebody who was a smart young guy who didn't do very well in school. The basic system of education, I didn't fit in my intelligence was elsewhere.
7. Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose, and of action over a long period of time.
8. I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally - with your family, your lover, your wife, and, at a certain point, with your children.
9. I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there's innocence contained in you but there's also innocence in the process of being lost.
10. I do a lot of curiosity buying I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of the band, anything that sparks my imagination.
11. I think politics come out of psychology.
12. I think that is what film and art and music do they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings.
13. I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that supported me as I went along.
14. It's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin and can't stand the company.
15. My image had always been very heterosexual, very straight. So it was a nice experience for me, a chance to clarify my own feelings about gay and lesbian civil rights.
16. Plus, you know, when I was young, there was a lot of respect for clowning in rock music - look at Little Richard. It was a part of the whole thing, and I always also believed that it released the audience.
17. Some of the greatest blues music is some of the darkest music you've ever heard.
18. The audiences are there as a result of my history with the band but also as a result of my being able to reach people with a tune.
19. The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.
20. The only thing I can say about having this type of success is that you can get yourself in trouble because basically the world is set open for you. People will say yes to anything you ask, so it's basically down to you and what you want or need.
21. There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.
22. You can't have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can't get on the train. There is a cracking point where a society collapses.
23. Your success story is a bigger story than whatever you're trying to say on stage. Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier.

Famous Quotes By Emma Thompson

 

1. A lot of very beautiful women can be a pain because all they're thinking about is how they look.
2. Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.
3. But when I lose my temper, I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel I've failed. I can be calm in a crisis, in the face of death or things that hurt badly. I don't get hysterical, which may be masochistic of me.
4. I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think there's some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything.
5. I understand what it's like to come with your family, and to uproot yourself and come to another culture. You need a lot of support. People say, 'She's got her daughter she's got her husband.' Yeah, but she hasn't got anyone else.
6. I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things: disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.
7. If you don't want women to do whatever they need to do then you must provide them with food, you must provide them with shelter and their basic human rights.
8. If you've got to my age, you've probably had your heart broken many times. So it's not that difficult to unpack a bit of grief from some little corner of your heart and cry over it.
9. Indeed - judicious, consistent parenting is a dream of mine. No judgements, learning space and listening carefully are my goals.
10. It is remarkable how many misconceptions there are here about life in the developing world and I think that that knowledge gap has done a lot to contribute to the imbalance quite frankly.
11. One is a child when one has a child. No one says, 'You will never be the same again.' Which is the truth! And we're all supposed to be happy all the time. What is that about?
12. The only way you can have it all is by delegating all the running of the home to other people - which I don't ever want to do... So you do it yourself, and it takes time and energy and effort. And if you give it the time, it's profoundly enjoyable.The trouble is it's very difficult to pin-point the most important thing because Aids affects everyone in different levels of society, differently and you have to respond to it differently.
13. This morning, I went to wipe my hands on a tea towel, and while I was using it, it seemed like it felt a bit light. I unfolded it and realized my daughter had cut little bits out of it to make frocks for her dolls!
14. We need men and women to sit down and talk to each other about sex honestly and openly. That would help us fight Aids so immediately. But our lack of communication is hugely problematic.
15. We've got people looking at our seamy side and our sad side a lot of the time because that's easier. It's much more difficult to make a film about happiness with lots of jokes in it.

Famous Quotes By Francesca Annis

 

1. After all my various relationships I find myself now home alone.
2. Exposure makes you famous, not just good work. Famous is being plastered everywhere.
3. However successful you are, there is no substitute for a close relationship. We all need them.
4. I can feel the 60S looming. In my profession, I've just moved along with my age. By thinking in decades, rather than whether someone's 42 or 47, you can give yourself a whole 10 years to turn yourself around in.
5. I consulted a Chinese herbalist and spent two weeks on an island off the coast of Zanzibar. I was away from any kind of contemporary technology.
6. I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and also have a family... they are nearly always seen as victims.
7. I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and have a family. Women are nearly always seen as victims.
8. I maintain the rather old-fashioned view that this is my work and it's in the public arena, but that doesn't entitle everyone to know what happened at home before coming here.
9. I never pursued being 'famous.'
10. I'm often asked if I regret not going to Hollywood. I'm glad I didn't go, because if I had I wouldn't have my extended family, which is the fabric of my life. Only recently have I realised how special and unusual it is.
11. I'm one of the great unemployed looking for the next job. I'm waiting for the right offer. Like anyone, I want something that turns me on inside.
12. Judi Dench and Ian McKellen taught me how to work hard and respect the theatre.
13. So many stars lose their way, and with success become more neurotic, not less so.
14. Thank God we're not like America. Everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women I think men revere older women.
15. The funny thing is I'm not bothered or sad about being on my own - after all I've never had a husband.
16. The minute anyone's getting anxious I say, You must eat and you must sleep. They're the two vital elements for a healthy life.
17. The wonderful thing about acting is you move along with your decade. The older you get, the more interesting the parts you get to play and you bring more of your personal experience to the part.
18. Too often, older women are seen as victims, but I know lots of formidable women who have marvellous jobs as well as a full erotic life, and children and friends and family.
19. Truly charismatic people, in my experience, don't come along very often.
20. We all know now that people can look good for their age. It isn't so extraordinary, I don't know why people go on about it so much.
21. You can love more than one person in your life, but things will be different. There'll be a different dynamic. Needs and desires change.
22. You have to be careful not to let your fear stop you doing things. It's very exciting to test yourself.

Famous Quotes By Sting

 

1. I can't really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don't see why I should.
2. I come from a family of losers, and I've rejected my family as something I don't want to be like.
3. I feel this music has nurtured me as I've been immersing myself in it. I've felt supported by it.
4. I hate most of what constitutes rock music, which is basically middle-aged crap.
5. I have a big problem with piped music. I like either silence or to listen to it properly.
6. I have been through various fitness regimes. I used to run about five miles a day and I did aerobics for a while.
7. I learned to change my accent in England, your accent identifies you very strongly with a class, and I did not want to be held back.
8. I made two movies before The Police had a hit record: I did Quadrophenia and a film called Radio On.
9. I miss England. I miss the weather. I've spent moss of the last 25 years on tour. I'm ready to come home.
10. I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised.
11. I try to give the media as many confusing images as I can to retain my freedom. What's real is for my children and the people I live with.
12. I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children.
13. I was famous overnight. I went from nowhere to being really big.
14. I write the music, produce it and the band plays within the parameters that I set.
15. I'm not much of a family man. I'm just not that into it. I love kids, I adore them, but I don't want to live my life for them.
16. I'm very much afraid of being mad - that's my one fear.
17. It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.
18. I've spent a bit of time with the Prince of Wales, who I respect greatly. I'd give two cheers for the Monarchy.
19. One of the rewards of success is freedom, the ability to do whatever you like.
20. Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.
21. That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere.
22. The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.
23. There's no religion but sex and music.
24. Yoga is almost like music in a way there's no end to it.

Famous Quotes By Catherine Deneuve

 

1. A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man.
2. Acting is also working with people who invite you into their dreams and trust you with their innermost being.
3. All women who kill or have sexual obsessions or who are prostitutes have trouble with their fathers.
4. Cinema is still a very young art form with extraordinary techniques and very impressive special effects but sometimes it seems the soul has been taken out of things.
5. Even if there are a lot women in films, there are few who are lesbians, that people know about.
6. Film is a very young art that is still evolving. Soon, we shall reach a balance between content and technology.
7. I admire directors so much, I find them incredible: they manage such a huge number of people of different characters, think of the money involved.
8. I cannot imagine having a physical relationship with a woman. I have not done that. But I really love women.
9. I don't see any reason for marriage when there is divorce.
10. I go to the movies a lot, and I regret when I see some actor that I used to like, to find them offering no more surprises.
11. I have no physical courage, I've asked for a double.
12. I like being famous when it's convenient for me and completely anonymous when it's not.
13. I live very normally, I go out with my friends, we go to the movies, I queue, we go to restaurants.
14. I love to not work. I like to travel. I work maybe half the year, no more.
15. I love vampire stories. That's why I did the movie. Women especially were taken with that movie-even more so when it came out on video.
16. I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts.
17. I'm not an admirer of action movies. I just think, Oh my God, it must be so tiring.
18. It has been very erotic and provocative for people to wonder about my feelings for women.
19. It's always difficult to play a scene of physical violence because you're always afraid that you don't know your own strength and might hurt someone.
20. Love is suffering. One side always loves more.
21. Marriage is obsolete and a trap.
22. Mississippi Mermaid was a very special experience because we only had the dialogues for the scenes we were shooting the night before.
23. That's what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing.
24. There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men.

Famous Quotes By Mario Batali

 

1. Although the skills aren't hard to learn, finding the happiness and finding the satisfaction and finding fulfillment in continuously serving somebody else something good to eat, is what makes a really good restaurant.
2. Are we Darwinists - where we live and let live? Or are we nurturing as a society? There has to be a standard of living that we decide to support.
3. As far away as you can get from the process of mechanisms and machinery, the more likely your food's going to taste good. And that - that is probably the largest thing I can hand to anybody is let your hands touch it. Let them make it.
4. As they say in Italy, Italians were eating with a knife and fork when the French were still eating each other. The Medici family had to bring their Tuscan cooks up there so they could make something edible.
5. Bologna is the best city in Italy for food and has the least number of tourists. With its medieval beauty, it has it all.
6. Cookbooks have all become baroque and very predictable. I'm looking for something different. A lot of chefs' cookbooks are food as it's done in the restaurants, but they are dumbed down, and I hate it when they dumb them down.
7. Everyone makes pesto in a food processor. But the texture is better with a mortar and pestle, and it's just as fast.
8. Finishing food is about the tiny touches. In the last seconds you can change everything.
9. I come from an Italian family. One of the greatest and most profound expressions we would ever use in conversations or arguments was a slamming door. The slamming door was our punctuation mark.
10. I like cast iron coated with enamel for longevity and forgiveness if I happen to take my eyes off the prize while pouring Chianti.
11. In America, I would say New York and New Orleans are the two most interesting food towns. In New Orleans, they don't have a bad deli. There's no mediocrity accepted.
12. My family makes these vinegars - out of everything from grapes to peaches and cherries. We go through the whole process with the giant vat and drainer, label them, and give them as Christmas presents.
13. My last meal? The food would be much less significant than the company.
14. Shop often, shop hard, and spend for the best stuff available - logic dictates that you can make delicious food only with delicious ingredients.
15. The kitchen really is the castle itself. This is where we spend our happiest moments and where we find the joy of being a family.
16. The passion of the Italian or the Italian-American population is endless for food and lore and everything about it.
17. The way the bankers have kind of toppled the way money is distributed, and taken most of it into their own hands, is as good as Stalin or Hitler.
18. There are pockets of great food in Spain, but there are also pockets of very mediocre food in Spain, and the same in Morocco and the same in Croatia and the same in Germany and the same in Austria.
19. Unlike curing cancer or heart disease, we already know how to beat hunger: food.
20. We would load up the yellow Cutlass Supreme station wagon and pick blackberries during blackberry season or spring onions during spring onion season. For us, food was part of the fabric of our day.
21. When I was in college, I used to write little ditties and short stories and poetry for my friends. Writing a book is another thing. It is so much different from my traditional day of dirty fingernails and greasy hair and hot pans.
22. When you cut that eggplant up and you roast it in the oven and you make the tomato sauce and you put it on top, your soul is in that food, and there's something about that that can never be made by a company that has three million employees.

Famous Quotes By Tori Spelling

 

1. I am proud of my kids, but I also want to make my mom proud of me. I'm still a momma's girl at the heart of the situation.
2. I just wanna thank all those amazing Internet bloggers out there that hate me day-to-day. I love you! You rock!
3. I just want to have a great relationship with my child and have a great family dynamic.
4. I love my mom. My mom loves me. We don't have an easy relationship. I don't think we ever will, but I'd rather have a complicated, misunderstood relationship than have no relationship at all.
5. I need to work to support my family.
6. I thought that once we were out of the baby stage, parenting would be a breeze.
7. I want to be a cool mom.
8. I want to be a loving mom.
9. I want to be a mom who listens.
10. I want to be a positive role-model for my daughter. The last thing I want to put out there is that it's acceptable to be too thin or have an eating disorder because you're in Hollywood.
11. I would eat healthy at times and pig out at times. But I never had to go on a strict diet plan.
12. I'm all for same-sex marriage.
13. I'm not happy not doing anything. When positive things are rolling in, you've got to take them when you can get them.
14. It was, you know, probably 80 degrees out in L.A., and my dad took me outside and there was snow. At the time, I thought, 'Every kid doesn't have snow in their backyard on Christmas?'
15. It would be pretty funny to see a Beverly Hills white girl with mad rap skills.
16. Sometimes I do envision just being a stay at home mom but not working isn't an option for me currently.
17. Sometimes, when I'm alone, I put on six inch heels and wear nothing else and dance around in front of the mirror and do my little stripper dance.
18. There are days when I struggle with wanting to be a full-time, stay-at-home mom, and feeling guilty about that because I work.
19. We are a very crafty family.
20. Whenever something happens that makes me laugh or if I remember something in the middle of the night that I want to share, I jot the experience down.
21. You know, you only get one family, and you have to make it work.

Famous Quotes By Katharine Hepburn

 

1. Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.
2. As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.
3. Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.
4. Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I'm past that age.
5. I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.
6. I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky.
7. If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.
8. If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
9. It's a business you go into because your an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession.
10. It's life isn't it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.
11. Life is hard. After all, it kills you.
12. Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.
13. Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.
14. Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.
15. My greatest strength is common sense. I'm really a standard brand - like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate.
16. Only the really plain people know about love - the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents.
17. Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.
18. Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.
19. To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.
20. We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.
21. When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.

Famous Quotes By Jane Campion

 

1. And, I mean, I think poetry does need to be met to some extent, especially, I guess, 19th century poetry, and for me, it's just been so worth the effort. It's like I'm planting a garden in my head.
2. As for how criticism of Keats' poetry relates to criticism of my own work, I'll leave that for others to decide.
3. But I think it's quite clear in my work that my orientation isn't political or doesn't come out of modern politics.
4. But short films are not inferior, just different. I think the short gives a freedom to film-makers. What's appealing is that you don't have as much responsibility for storytelling and plot. They can be more like a portrait, or a poem.
5. I can get very philosophical and ask the questions Keats was asking as a young guy. What are we here for? What's a soul? What's it all about? What is thinking about, imagination?
6. I had a daughter who was 9 years old and I had the feeling I wasn't going to be a real parent if I didn't quit making movies for a while and spend time with her. I also felt that I'd made enough movies and said what I had to say at the time.
7. I have to admit that I had a lot of problems with poetry.
8. I think I made good movies.
9. I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but it's not part of a sensible way of living. It's a heroic path and it generally ends dangerously.
10. I think women don't grow up with the harsh world of criticism that men grow up with, we are more sensitively treated, and when you first experience the world of film-making you have to develop a very tough skin.
11. It's a luxury to be able to tell a long form story. I love novels, and I love to have a long relationship with characters.
12. My musical knowledge is so bad it's embarrassing. When composers discuss music with someone as primitive as myself, they have to talk about it in terms of senses and emotion, rather than keys and tempo.
13. Performers are so vulnerable. They're frightened of humiliation, sure their work will be crap. I try to make an environment where it's warm, where it's OK to fail - a kind of home, I suppose.
14. Women today are dealing with both their independence and also the fact that their lives are built around finding and satisfying the romantic models we grew up with.
15. You know, sex is actually not so original as the way people love or the stories behind each relationship, which is what you remember. Sex is sex in the end.

Famous Quotes By Orson Welles

 

1. A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
2. A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.
3. Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.
4. Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else.
5. I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
6. I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.
7. I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.
8. I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.
9. I passionately hate the idea of being with it I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
10. I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
11. If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
12. My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
13. Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
14. Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.
15. Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.
16. Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me.
17. Race hate isn't human nature race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
18. The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.
19. The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
20. The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.
21. We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

Famous Quotes By Pat Robertson

 

1. Adoptive parents are taking on enormous responsibility, both emotionally and financially. Quite frankly, they need as much disclosure as possible about the child's background and health to assure the best fit and be prepared.
2. And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset.
3. Anything's possible in politics.
4. But if there's an erosion at home, you know, Thomas Jefferson warned about a tyranny of an oligarchy and if we surrender our democracy to the tyranny of an oligarchy, we've made a terrible mistake.
5. Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
6. Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
7. God created the world the laws of nature were created by God. True science tries to find out what God put in the world. The trouble is where scientists speculate about theology and they don't know what they're talking about because they weren't there.
8. I mean, if a person acts irresponsibly in his own life, he will pay the consequences. And it's not so much divine retribution as it's built into the law of nature.
9. If you read back in the Bible, the letter of the apostle Paul to the church of Thessalonia, he said that in the latter days before the end of the age that the Earth would be caught up in what he called the birth pangs of a new order.
10. I'm a person that just likes to speak the truth, and I don't understand why in America it's such a big deal that we won't read the Koran and we won't look at history.
11. Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?
12. Islam is a violent, I was going to say religion, but it's not a religion. It's a political system. It's a violent political system bent on the overthrow of the governments of the world and world domination. That is the ultimate aim.
13. It seems to me the Washington Monument is a symbol of America's power. It has been the symbol of our great nation. We look at the symbol and we say 'this is one nation under God.'
14. Jesus Christ is a prince of peace. He told us to live in peace. He told us to love our enemies. He told us to do good to them that spitefully use us.
15. The thought about Republicans is, we're supposed to be Jeffersonian. That government governs the best that governs the least.
16. The truth is, the secular world isn't too enamored with Jesus. And they're not too enamored with someone who is leading people to Jesus. So if you're out there talking about people's sins, and you're talking about righteousness, you will get pushback.
17. The wisdom of God's Word is quite clear on believers being unequally yoked. And marrying someone who is not a Christian - who is not a daily disciple of Christ - is being unequally yoked, regardless of what their beliefs might be.
18. There are times in history where a particular doctrine becomes a symbol of a greater problem.
19. There's no question that jihad historically means war.
20. Well, what was called the blessed hope of the Bible is that one day Jesus Christ would come back again, start a whole new era, that this world order that we know it would change into something that would be wonderful that we'd call the millennium.

Famous Quotes By Jean Paul

 

1. Age does not matter if the matter does not age.
2. As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.
3. Beauty attracts us men but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.
4. Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.
5. Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.
6. Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.
7. For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted.
8. God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.
9. Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.
10. Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.
11. Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.
12. Live your life and forget your age.
13. Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
14. Only actions give life strength only moderation gives it charm.
15. Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.
16. Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.
17. Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.
18. Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.
19. The darkness of death is like the evening twilight it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.
20. The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
21. The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.
22. What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.
23. Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

Famous Quotes By Ben Stein

 

1. Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.
2. Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.
3. I don't believe the most successful people are the ones who got the best grades, got into the best schools, or made the most money.
4. I love sleeping in a moving car more than sleeping in bed.
5. I thought that all of the sacrifices and blessings of the whole history of mankind have devolved upon me. Thank you, God.
6. If there are finer beings than German short hairs, I don't know what they are. In their eyes is peace.
7. If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition to allow for an equal shot at the starting gate, everyone wins, except for the charlatans and would be dictators.
8. If you want to fight the evil you see in finance and industry, get to work reading the corporate filings, see if there has been fraud, and where you find it, report it to the SEC or write about it or blog about it.
9. It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
10. It's really amazing that in the age of unbelief, as a smart man called it, there isn't even more fraud. After all, with no God, there's no one to ever call you to account, and no accounting at all if you can get away with it.
11. Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.
12. Sleep more at night. If it's allowed at work or home, take a nap in the afternoon. You'll be amazed at how much better you'll feel.
13. The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
14. The people who did the collateralized mortgage obligations, sold them to pension funds, then sold them short, then bought credit default swap insurance on them, are just amazing. They are a law unto themselves.
15. When I seemed to be irritable or sad, my father would quote the learned Dr. Knight, and then say, 'Just go to sleep.' Like all smart aleck kids, I thought the advice was silly. But as I've grown older, I've realized just how smart Knight was.
16. Yes, Americans can still get credit for cars and trucks and refrigerators, and those businesses are doing well. But just try to get a home loan now.

Famous Quotes By Maya Lin

 

1. Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.
2. Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture, I pursue it as an artist. I deliberately keep a tiny studio. I don't want to be an architectural firm. I want to remain an artist.
3. How we are using up our home, how we are living and polluting the planet is frightening. It was evident when I was a child. It's more evident now.
4. I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was.
5. I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate fields rather than merging them.
6. I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination.
7. I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into my 30s, I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character.
8. I really enjoyed hanging out with some of the teachers. This one chemistry teacher, she liked hanging out. I liked making explosives. We would stay after school and blow things up.
9. I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere.
10. I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.
11. If we can't face death, we'll never overcome it. You have to look it straight in the eye. Then you can turn around and walk back out into the light.
12. In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it's done. If you want to rip it apart at the eleventh hour and start all over again, you never finish. I was one of those crazy creatures.
13. It was a requirement by the veterans to list the 57,000 names. We're reaching a time that we'll acknowledge the individual in a war on a national level.
14. It's funny, as you live through something you're not aware of it.
15. My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as a playground.
16. Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think.
17. The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.
18. The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about teaching, or learning.
19. The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.
20. The role of art in society differs for every artist.
21. To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom.
22. Warmth isn't what minimalists are thought to have.
23. When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from my point of view, you don't pry into other people's business.
24. When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family.
25. You should be having more fun in high school, exploring things because you want to explore them and learning because you love learning-not worrying about competition.

Famous Quotes By John Updike

 

1. A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
2. A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.
3. Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it costs them.
4. Customs and convictions change respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.
5. Dreams come true without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
6. Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper.
7. Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.
8. Existence itself does not feel horrible it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.
9. Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.
10. Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.
11. I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.
12. Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.
13. Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.
14. Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.
15. That a marriage ends is less than ideal but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.
16. The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.
17. The first breath of adultery is the freest after it, constraints aping marriage develop.
18. The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.
19. The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.
20. Truth should not be forced it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man.
21. We are most alive when we're in love.
22. What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.
23. Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.
24. Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.