Christopher Guest Quotes

There are dozens and dozens of improv classes across the nation, but it really cannot be taught.

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• This business is based on numbers, and the numbers show that it's worth investing in female-driven and female-directed films.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Business
  • Numbers
  • Investing

• Having a dream, living that dream, losing that dream, dreaming again and then having that dream come true again is one of the greatest feelings ever because I'm stronger.

  

  Aaron Carter
  • True
  • Dream
  • Feelings

• One of my favorite vacation places is Miami, because of the people, the water and the beach - of course - and the architecture on Miami Beach is so wonderful.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • People
  • Water
  • Architecture

• When I am working it is up early and coffee and 15 hours of being on the set. When I am not working, it is up late and coffee, golf or softball and hopefully a ball game on the television.

  

  Mackenzie Astin
  • Up
  • Game
  • Golf

• We never have business meals at El Bulli. If it's about business, you're probably not paying much attention to the food.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Business
  • Food
  • Attention

• Life at best is bittersweet.

  

  Jack Kirby
  • Life
  • Best
  • Bittersweet

• Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Work
  • Society
  • Team

• I still have the desire to do the job of acting. It's just a matter of whether I'll be allowed to do the job of acting that remains to be seen. There are only so many brick walls that I'm willing to beat my head on.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • Job
  • Desire
  • Acting

• The combination of lentils with rice or bulgur is the absolute height of Levantine comfort food. I could eat it every day.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Food
  • Day
  • Everyday

• First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Great
  • Christian
  • Religion

• We do not believe voters gave President Bush a mandate to turn back the clock decades on so many of our legal protections.

  

  Ralph G. Neas
  • Believe
  • Clock
  • Legal

• As an actress, I value and rely on peaceful self-expression, not only in my daily life, but also in my professional work. This is particularly true, as my commitment to the promotion of human rights is an integral part of my calling as an artist.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Life
  • Work
  • True

• I have loved to cook since I was a child in my mother's kitchen. If I don't have time to cook, I'll just read a cookbook.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Time
  • Mother
  • Child

• People would continue to adopt a particular conception of the divine because it worked for them, not because it was scientifically or philosophically sound.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • People

• Some Western powers admit that they have killed a large part of Jewish population in Europe and founded the occupied regime in order to put right the wrong they had committed.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

• Let the gossip roll! What to me are Hamlet's garters, or the whirlwind of Salome's dance, or the tread of the Man in the Iron Mask? I am more iron than they.

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Dance
  • Gossip
  • Hamlet

• We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then.

  

  Jeanette Winterson
  • Die

• Everybody kept saying, 'I just don't know how to sell you.' I'm odd. I don't think you can put a finger on me.

  

  Nelsan Ellis

• Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less.

  

  Charles Lamb
  • Time
  • Space

• Un soir, j'ai assis la Beauté sur mes genoux. - Et je l'ai trouvée amère. - Et je l'ai injuriée.

  

  Arthur Rimbaud

• In my home, guns were not something to be earned or celebrated. Water guns and Nerf guns were not allowed outside. B.B. guns were not even a part of the conversation.

  

  Clint Smith
  • Home
  • Water

• God truly is our Father, the Father of the spirits of all mankind. We are his literal offspring and are formed in his image. We have inherited divine characteristics from him.

  

  Joseph B. Wirthlin
  • God
  • Father

• I am more modest now, but I still think that one of the pleasantest of all emotions is to know that I, I with my brain and my hands, have nourished my beloved few, that I have concocted a stew or a story, a rarity or a plain dish, to sustain them truly against the hungers of the world.

  

  M. F. K. Fisher
  • World
  • Brain

• There are dozens and dozens of improv classes across the nation, but it really cannot be taught.

  

  Christopher Guest