Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
'But,' I Dmitri Karamazov asked, 'how will man be after that? Without God and the future life? It means everything is permitted now, one can do anything?' 'Didn't you know?' he said. And he laughed. 'Everything is permitted to the intelligent man,' he said.
Quotes to Explore
-
Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you're crazy.
-
There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
-
The high point was that the people are really nice - despite the crazy politics - and I loved being there. The hardest part was knowing some of the things I was probably going to write about Texas would make those nice people very unhappy.
-
We're a very iterative company, so we jump on basically all new technology.
-
Billy Jean King could not get credit when her husband was in law school and she was winning the Wimbledon, because he had to sign the cards. You know, you had these cases in the '70s of women who were mayors who couldn't get credit unless their husbands signed for them.
-
They don't have a lot of appointment viewing. What television depends on, one thing 'Larry King Live' was - whether you liked it, didn't like it - it was appointment viewing.
-
The ball whizzes past like a bumblebee and the Indians are in the sea.
-
I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.
-
No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.
-
Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
-
I've learned to be more accepting of myself. I'm 37, not 18, and I've got the lines to prove it. I try to remind myself that a girl can have it all, just not all at once.
-
If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
-
I love the fact that everyone's trying to be good-looking in L.A. - then I turn up and I get work.
-
Early on, even before he was the front-runner, TV news was giving Trump far more attention than other candidates and far more than he deserved.
-
My father did irrigation jobs, and I would sometimes accompany him, and that gave me a taste of what was going on in the innards of India.
-
Anything I sing is supposed to be genuine. It's not supposed to be make-believe or I'm making something for the crowd to jump or to hold up their hands.
-
Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
-
You cannot perform in a manner inconsistent with the way you see yourself.
-
There's so many good comedians in D.C. I started hanging out with those guys. Dave Chappelle was there. Actually, Dave was too young to be in the clubs, so when his mom couldn't make it, he would ask me to pretend I was his aunt, so he could do open mike.
-
I had wanted to make this film Suffragette for over a decade. There has never been a cinematic rendition of this story. I had not been taught any of the history of the movement at school, and the version I had gleaned had been the Mary Poppins story of women in large hats, petitioning. There was another version.
-
That nice, soft pillow and the warm blanket, and it's all comfortable, and no one wants to leave that comfort - but if you can wake up early in the morning, get a head start on everyone else that's still sleeping, get productive time doing things that you need to do - that's a huge piece to moving your life forward.
-
Faith allows me to feel that as long as I'm in line with God everything will be O.K. and that I'll make it through whatever.
-
We are a nation of laws and a nation of immigrants.
-
'But,' I Dmitri Karamazov asked, 'how will man be after that? Without God and the future life? It means everything is permitted now, one can do anything?' 'Didn't you know?' he said. And he laughed. 'Everything is permitted to the intelligent man,' he said.
