📅 Daily Dose Of Quotes

I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.

A book is maybe about 350 pages, and the prose allows for readers to get a glimpse into the internal lives of the characters. A screenplay is 120 pages, and it's all dialogue and action. The pacing of films is different, the structure is often different, and the internal lives of the characters must come across through the acting. Movies are just a different experience than reading - so it just depends on what an individual prefers.

The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.

In mourning it is the world which has become poor and empty; in melancholia it is the ego itself.

There is great stuff waiting for you on the other side of fear.

Where you stand should not depend on where you sit.

When you give to your mate, you give to your children. There is no better way to teach love than to practice love. Kids are much better at watching and emulating than they are at listening.

There's a lot of active radical thought today but not much action.

Realise that your dreams of financial independence have already come true on the mental plane, by the time you desire them or become aware of them.

I think it's always important to give immediate positive reinforcement.

Fascism is fascism. Terrorism is terrorism. Oppression is oppression.

When we mention the 1 percent and the 99 percent, everybody now knows what we are talking about. It's part of our vocabulary. How quickly these numbers jumped from the sidelines to the center.

I find that the critics of voluntary service are all too often those who are prepared to accept such services when they require them but deride them with cynicism and scepticism when they see others helping and being helped.

A little goes a long way in Somalia: $5 will feed a person there for about two weeks.

Many a blessing has been recognized too late.

The king is a strong piece - use it !

These aren't joyous times when we have war in Iraq. These are challenging times, and they're difficult times, and they're straining the psyche of our country. I understand that.

I truly loved being pregnant and feeling what was going on inside my body and watching it change. It's difficult to recoup, but still amazing nonetheless. I would have another one.

Savings give you a lot of strength, flexibility and control. They are what give you the most powerful Answer In The World.

Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.

As a filmmaker‚ like any artist‚ when something affects me emotionally I think about it in those terms. It's my way of dealing with my thoughts‚ my fears and my hardships. I think the same can be said with any artist. For a musician‚ you're going to write a song about something that affects you emotionally.

I'm the first to admit that I like going to, or my memories at least of going to Clint Eastwood movies or Charles Bronson or James Bond.

You should hit him in the face with frying pans more often," Said Rhys "he seems to like it

I have a deep suspicion of social institutions and tradition in general.

I first met the brand [Didier Dubot] when I went to an event for them on Top of The Standard. It was about three years ago. It was the first time I heard about them and then that's where I met them.

Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage.

What do you want to want to be, anyway?" "I don't know; I guess what I want to be is a good Catholic." "What you should say"--he told me--"what you should say is that you want to be a saint.

WE all have to play as a team to make the world a better place

I used to think if it wasn't possible to be a family man and a totally dedicated artist, I'd rather be the former. I'm an idealist and a romantic.

If Swaraj is to be had by peaceful methods, it will only be attained by attention to every little detail of national life.

It is only a slight exaggeration to say that happiness is the experience of spending time with people you love and who love you.

Talk—half-talk, phrases that had no need to be finished, abstractions, Chinese bells played on with cotton-tipped sticks, mock orange blossoms painted on porcelain. The muffled, close, half-talk of soft-fleshed women. The men she had embraced, and the women, all washing against the resonance of my memory. Sound within sound, scene within scene, woman within woman—like acid revealing an invisible script. One woman within another eternally, in a far-reaching procession, shattering my mind into fragments, into quarter tones which no orchestral baton can ever make whole again.

Dancing is a very living art. It is essentially of the moment, although a very old art. A dancer's art is lived while he is dancing. Nothing is left of his art except the pictures and the memories--when his dancing days are over.

My joy is the golden sunset giving thanks for another day. Gratitude itself is a source of joy.

Although Dorothy in Blue Velvet was humiliated and hurt by men, basically I could react to how she felt.

There is no more important issue than restoring the protection of the law to pre-natal infants.

If we really do get what we give then I give up, so I can get up.

Whatever the field under discussion, those who engage in debate must not only believe in each other's good faith, but also in their capacity to arrive at the truth.

Part of him wanted to weep... but his purpose was rigid within him. He felt he could not bend to gentleness without breaking.

I remember enjoying writing those, theres two clues of a gift: you enjoy doing it and people enjoy you doing it.

You know, the process of making a documentary is one of discovery, and like writing a story, you follow a lead and that leads you to something else and then by the time you finish, the story is nothing like you expected.

If I get a week off, I'll go to a hotel that has a golf course. I like to come downstairs and go right onto the course. I'll do that five days in a row.