Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art.
-
Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
-
The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
-
Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
-
Memorising my lines is actually something I do fairly well. I look at it a few times and it is pretty much there. When your shooting on TV, they do it in such a way that it is pretty easy.
-
I'm a 'Lost' guy, I love 'Lost.'
-
There's a restaurant I go to whenever I can called The Richmond Cafe. It's a little Thai restaurant owned by a group of Thai women - I think they're all a family, and they're just really, really nice, and they make amazing massaman curry.
-
My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.
-
My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn't that enough?
-
We're passing on something of ourselves to others. I feel that's what makes our life full of meaning. It's hard to have meaning in a closet, encapsulated by nothing. I think you really have to expand yourself and your life and do what you can for other people.
-
I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
-
Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.
-
I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either.
-
I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time.
-
George W. Bush is long gone, and with him the idea that 'Israel can do no wrong.'
-
The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
-
He was so excited. He cut out pictures of these landscapes and neighborhoods and kind of really tried to give you a feel of the movie. It was kind of cute but at the same time it really showed his enthusiasm for it.
-
I carry around, like, a little journal with me and just write all the time. Not necessarily, like, actually sitting down and writing lyrics - just freeform writing, whatever's going on in my mind. I write a lot on airplanes, actually, because it's completely isolating.
-
A modest man is usually admired, if people ever hear of him.
-
I don't really consider myself to be famous.
-
I can direct breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I take pride in my kitchen, but I'm not going to direct a movie.
-
I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart.
-
Wisdom delights in water; love delights in hills. Wisdom is stirring; love is quiet. Wisdom is merry; love grows old.
-
In abstract love of humanity one almost always only loves oneself.
