C. S. Forester Quotes

When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument.

C. S. Forester

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• I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Work
  • Old
  • Lucky

• Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.

  

  Randy Neugebauer
  • Man
  • Marriage
  • Woman

• I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.

  

  Walter Huston
  • Simple
  • Better
  • Voice

• There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Parent
  • Point
  • Where

• I was a tomboy.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Tomboy

• Human technology has made it to Mars. We are transmitting gorgeous pictures from it. Yet we have not explored our own planet. Two-thirds of it is covered with oceans that are still mysterious places.

  

  Barbara Block
  • Technology
  • Mysterious
  • Own

• If I get to a place early in the morning, I try to walk around by myself. I still try to find cool places to go to, like a record store in St. Louis or some restaurant in Chicago.

  

  Yuna
  • Morning
  • Myself
  • Cool

• He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.

  

  Ovid
  • Love
  • Fall
  • For Him

• I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting.

  

  Harry Callahan
  • People
  • Life
  • Wish

• The cliche of what a rock star is - there's something elitist about it. I never related to that. I'm an entertainer. I think of it as, you're performing for people. It's not a self-glorification thing.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • Rock
  • Star

• If birth matters, midwives matter. In Europe, there are hospitals where the cesarean rate is less than 10%, and you'll find midwives in these hospitals, you'll see a lot less re-admissions with infections and complications, and you'll see a lot less injury to mothers.

  

  Ina May Gaskin
  • Matter
  • Find
  • Injury

• I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.

  

  Vance Joy
  • Great
  • Write
  • Songs

• I've been in real estate for my whole life, I've been trying to sharpshoot the market with my investments, I'm never right. All you need to do is get near the bottom. That's good enough.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Life
  • Good
  • Real

• The notion of religious liberty is that you cannot be forced to participate in a religious ceremony that's not of your choosing simply because you're out-voted.

  

  Ira Glasser
  • You
  • Religious
  • Liberty

• Maybe I'm just purely lucky. If I've come up against obstacles I've always found another way around it.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Up
  • Lucky
  • Just

• The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Up
  • House
  • Marriage

• I try not to do bad, but sometimes it's irresistible.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Bad
  • Sometimes
  • Try

• There seems little reason to prescribe anti-depressant medication to any but the most severely depressed patients.

  

  Irving Kirsch
  • Reason
  • Seems
  • Medication

• But remember please, the Law by which we live, we are not built to comprehend a lie, we can neither love nor pity nor forgive. If you make a slip in handling us you die.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Remember
  • Law
  • Lie

• I love, in movies, when you feel and you understand the past of the character without it being said or having a flashback or something that explains. I think, in 'Prisoners,' we need to understand that Loki's character's past was not first class. He was not the first in his class.

  

  Denis Villeneuve
  • Character
  • Past

• I suppose what I like about Zen is that the teachers are constantly questioning your insight and challenging it, looking for sloppiness or laziness in it, and ways you can go past that.

  

  David O. Russell
  • Past
  • Teacher
  • Challenges

• Most mothers entering the labor market outside the home are naive. They stagger home each evening, holding mail in their teeth, the cleaning over their arm, a lamb chop defrosting under each armpit, balancing two gallons of frozen milk between their knees, and expect one of the kids to get the door.

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • Home
  • Kids
  • Mother

• I felt unworthy to play Jesus. I just accepted the responsibility and said, 'What actor wouldn't want to play this role?'

  

  Jim Caviezel
  • Responsibility
  • Jesus

• When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument.

  

  C. S. Forester
  • Mother
  • Past
  • Drinking