Kenneth Tynan Quotes

A good many inconveniences attend playgoing in any large city, but the greatest of them is usually the play itself.

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• I think of Twitter as the place where I go to have a great conversation when I can't have one locally, which seems to be all the time, and the more time that I spend on Twitter, the more I sort of curate this incredible group of very intelligent people that I just get to know purely through the quality of their thoughts.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• I think the only advice I can give you on how to live your life well is, first off, remember... it's not the things we do in life that we regret on our deathbed, it is the things we do not.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Life
  • Live
  • Remember

• Whenever I dream about flying, it's the best feeling in the world.

  

  Kate Mara
  • World
  • Dream
  • Feeling

• This town was built on nepotism.

  

  Damon Wayans
  • Built
  • Town
  • Nepotism

• Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.

  

  Mae West
  • Rain
  • Boyfriend
  • Save

• In time we grow older, we grow wiser, we grow smarter, and we're better. And I feel like I'm becoming more seasoned, although I don't have my salt-and-pepper hair.

  

  Usher
  • Time
  • Hair
  • Grow

• I have no regrets at all. I have done quite well for myself. I didn't have a conventional face, but I have done well, and I am proud of it.

  

  Om Puri
  • Success
  • Face
  • Conventional

• In Germany I am not so famous.

  

  Hans Berger
  • Famous
  • Germany

• Chris Jericho is a great guy. He's beyond hysterical. He's good people. They're really good. Chris wanted me to throw down a solo. He sent it to me and I knocked it out.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • People
  • Good
  • Wanted

• Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.

  

  Farnaz Fassihi
  • Remember
  • American
  • Right

• Right now I'm really happy with how things are going with my chess career, so I'm not thinking of doing anything else.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Thinking
  • Happy
  • Career

• I'm self-taught and emailed photographers I knew if I had questions I couldn't figure out from the manual or online.

  

  Hanneli Mustaparta
  • Questions
  • Online
  • Figure

• The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Mind
  • Hope
  • Pleasure

• No days off. I'm a workaholic.

  

  Wale
  • Days
  • Workaholic
  • Off

• The homosexual community has more acceptance in America than it ever has, and the suicide rate is as high as it's always been.

  

  Randall Terry
  • America
  • High
  • Community

• We do believe that freedom, the right to choose, the right to vote, respect and justice is the fundamental right of all people. All people must obtain these rights.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • People
  • Believe
  • Freedom

• Tossing doughnuts, fritters or fried dumplings in fennel sugar adds grown-up complexity without diminishing the indulgence factor.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Up
  • Without
  • Complexity

• I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • People
  • Solitude
  • Bond

• Orson Welles was one of these people who was defying everything the doctors told him he wasn't supposed to be doing. He was really enjoying himself when he was eating what he wanted to eat.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • People
  • Doing
  • Eating

• We exponents of horror do much better than those Method actors. We make the unbelievable believable. More often than not, they make the believable unbelievable.

  

  Vincent Price
  • Writing
  • Horror
  • Unbelievable

• At first, I didn't know what an actor was. I thought it was an acrobat. I saw acrobats at the circus, and I thought that was interesting. In my head, that was what I imagined I wanted to be when I grew up. Then I realized what an actor was, and I've gravitated to it ever since.

  

  Finn Jones
  • Up
  • Interesting
  • Know

• Basketball wasn't going particularly well, but in my senior year, I did a play and got a wonderful card from a professor that said, 'I don't know what your plans are after school or if acting is a part of it, but you have something special.' Hearing that from someone who I had so much respect for pointed me in that direction.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • School
  • Respect
  • Special

• Formerly, people used to grieve over the departed, but in our days they grieve over the survivors.

  

  Saib Tabrizi
  • People
  • Grieving
  • Departed

• A good many inconveniences attend playgoing in any large city, but the greatest of them is usually the play itself.

  

  Kenneth Tynan
  • Good
  • City