Bernard Sumner Quotes

Landscape affects you.

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• A people cannot long retain their freedom, whose government is incapable of protecting them.

  

  Oliver Ellsworth
  • People
  • Long
  • Freedom

• Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Man
  • Determination
  • Quiet

• When I was making my first films, I was very interested in Hollywood B movies.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Movies
  • First
  • Hollywood

• We're playing the same songs, the same way, that we have for years.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Way
  • Years
  • Same

• I'm trying to make perfect moments. And those generate meaning. If you go deep enough in how to make a moment, very quickly you come to how narrative works - to what we are as a species, how we've come up with telling stories in scenes and images.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Perfect

• It was considered the most dangerous route in the Hills, but as my reputation as a rider and quick shot was well known, I was molested very little, for the toll gatherers looked on me as being a good fellow, and they knew that I never missed my mark.

  

  Calamity Jane
  • Good
  • Me
  • Reputation

• Fiction is the thing I esteem most in my own work; I feel that, even if it's no good, only I could have written those books.

  

  Edmund White
  • Good
  • Work
  • Feel

• It's like deja-vu, all over again.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Like
  • Over
  • Again

• I have been very encouraged by President Obama's call to action on climate change both at his Inauguration and in the State of the Union Address. This is a global imperative. I also welcome President Obama's intention to pursue reductions in nuclear arsenals.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Change
  • Action
  • Welcome

• Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Great
  • Art
  • Man

• My parents have sailed around the world; they know what can happen and that it's not always fun, but because I want to do it so much, they agreed and supported me.

  

  Laura Dekker
  • World
  • Fun
  • Parents

• '...reality’s always dull, you know...'

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Reality

• Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future.

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • Live
  • Hope
  • Future

• History has done a great disservice to Anne Boleyn.

  

  Claire Foy
  • Great
  • Done
  • History

• I don't have the attention span for sports.

  

  Colbie Caillat
  • Attention
  • Sports

• English majors understand human nature better than economists do.

  

  Jane Smiley
  • Nature
  • English

• Anything to do with the South resonates with me, because I'm Southern.

  

  Mary Steenburgen

• I never thought I would see a free South Sudan.

  

  Alek Wek
  • Free

• I love inventing worlds and characters and settings and scenarios.

  

  Jerry B. Jenkins

• I've enjoyed the opposite sex a lot. Always have. Always will.

  

  Betty White
  • Sex

• Sometimes I envy painters, it is wonderful to remain in front of a bouquet of flowers a whole morning, or even longer. A photographer is like a cloud, pushed all around, always dependent on the exterior world. That's what I sometimes feel as a pain and an error.

  

  Edouard Boubat
  • Pain
  • Error
  • Photographer

• I am a woman, I am a housewife, I am a government official, I've been twice a government secretary, I've been leader of a parliamentary group, I am an economist.

  

  Josefina Vazquez Mota

• Beige curtains... there's nothing wrong with them. You're not like, 'Ew, gross! Beige curtains!' You just don't notice them either way. They're just, like, fine.

  

  Riki Lindhome
  • Nothing
  • Wrong
  • Curtains

• Landscape affects you.

  

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