Marisa Tomei Quotes

I prefer to express myself physically, or non-verbally. I prefer just to react without having a lot of dialogue.

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• Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Learning

• Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Care
  • Body
  • More

• A competitor will find a way to win. Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that much harder. Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up. It's all a matter of pride.

  

  Nancy Lopez
  • Up
  • Bad
  • Pride

• I want to make it to Heaven and be as good an influence on others as I can in that process.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Good
  • Heaven
  • Process

• I think there are things that you look for when you're younger, and you think they are going to make you happier or make you feel complete. That's not going to happen, and it's really about living the moments. Eventually, you reach a point when you're at ease with your life and don't have any unrealistic expectations.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Life
  • Moments
  • Expectations

• Encourage aspiring writers to continue writing when things are going against them, when it feels hard. Explain the typical obstacles that occur, and encourage and reassure them to continue, never to give up.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Give

• When it was time for a player to go, he went.

  

  Cal Hubbard
  • Time
  • Player
  • Go

• All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it.

  

  Ted Turner
  • People
  • Life
  • My Life

• In the U.S., the '50s and '60s marked the documentary's golden age, especially at CBS, where pioneering television journalist Edward R. Murrow, immortalised in George Clooney's 'Good Night, and Good Luck,' produced such landmark investigations as the CBS Reports programme 'Hunger in America.'

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Good
  • America
  • Age

• Texting is a lot like an answering machine. If you don't want to talk to somebody, it's like screening your calls. To me, it's a way of communication, but not one that I favor.

  

  Pat Gillick
  • Want
  • Way
  • Communication

• Treat people with respect, whoever they are, and expect your governments to treat everybody with respect. And if you do that, then you’re going to be okay.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Respect

• Sir, your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Up
  • Wish

• Getting up at odd hours to catch flights. I hate the long hours of waiting. There are times when one is continuously travelling, from one city to another, hopping from one studio to another or changing from one costume to another. It is annoying, but after a point, one learns to be immune to one’s surroundings.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • Up
  • Long
  • Hate

• As I said, it was inevitable, and I don’t let laws of nature upset me.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Nature

• The Pop artists did images that anybody walking down Broadway could recognize in a split second – comics, picnic tables, men's trousers, celebrities, shower curtains, refrigerators, Coke bottles – all the great modern things that the Abstract Expressionists tried so hard not to notice at all. (1960's)

  

  Andy Warhol
  • Great
  • Men
  • Walking

• I don't care whether I am a Minx or a Sphinx.

  

  Charles Dickens

• Hot dogs and Red Vines and potato chips and French fries are my favorite foods.

  

  Betty White
  • Red

• The rare few, who, early in life have rid themselves of the friendship of the many.

  

  James Whistler
  • Life
  • Friendship

• So when you see a regulation against lead, because lead is a bad in a regulators mind, what does that mean? You are not telling us what is good, you are just tell us what you don't want, not what you do want.

  

  William McDonough
  • Mind
  • Mean
  • Doe

• But something, somehow, had made all these paths converge. You couldn't find it on a checklist, or work it into the equation. It just happened.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Path
  • Made
  • Happened

• People with daddy issues can always spot a fellow traveler.

  

  Bentley Little
  • People
  • Issues
  • Traveler

• If you are still alive when you read this, close your eyes. I am under their lids, growing black.

  

  Bill Knott
  • Eyes
  • Read
  • Alive

• You could ask: Why are people attracted to narratives that justify the terrible things that we're doing to the planet? Why are people attracted to narratives of control and fear and hunting down the terrorists, and this uncaring attitude toward nature? These come from what I call the perceptions of separation and the experience of separation, the experience of alienation, the experience of scarcity and anxiety and competition, and a world in which everybody is out for themselves and nobody cares.

  

  Charles Eisenstein
  • People
  • Attitude
  • Hunting

• I prefer to express myself physically, or non-verbally. I prefer just to react without having a lot of dialogue.

  

  Marisa Tomei