Beverly Sills Quotes
As soon as I arrive at the house, Laurie starts running, hits my chest, knocks me down, and licks my face. It's become a family ritual.
Quotes to Explore
-
Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.
-
Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
-
This is my favorite area in New York - the West Village is the heart of New York. I could never move somewhere else.
-
I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.
-
Getting divorced didn't sour me on the institution of marriage. I'll tell you what I'll never do: I'll never get divorced again.
-
In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.
-
The health industry, the fitness industry, was really starting to pick up. This was around the mid 80's.
-
A lot happens in 20 years.
-
On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.
-
I can bear my own sorrows, but the sorrows arising from the calamities visiting Islam and Muslims have crushed me. I feel each blow delivered to the Muslim world as delivered first to my own heart.
-
By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.
-
Some taxpayers may object to a print journalism bailout on the grounds that it mostly benefits the liberal elite. And we can't blame taxpayers for being reluctant to subsidize the reportorial careers of J-school twerps who should have joined the Peace Corps and gone to Africa to 'speak truth to power' to Robert Mugabe.
-
Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
-
Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
-
Yidaki didgeridoo has been used in every part of Australian regional culture, all around the country. It's become a message stick for the survival of those people, for aboriginal people and aboriginal culture.
-
If I can save one kid's life, for me, it's absolutely worth it.
-
I fell in love with Rwanda the moment I saw those verdant, rolling hills rise up beneath the wings of the plane as we descended toward Kigali airport.
-
We run to win, not just to be in the race.
-
My family was very loving but also very superstitious. My mother was always telling us, 'Don't walk under a ladder or you'll have bad luck,' or, 'If you spill salt, be sure and toss a pinch over your shoulder, or you're in trouble.'
-
Maybe when I stop making movies, I'll understand my work better.
-
I'm one of those people that thinks the Internet is amazing, and I can't believe it exists.
-
I'm always trying to find the next comedian that just gives me something a little funny to combine with all of the depressing news that I'm processing.
-
I have to take care of the house, and the dogs, and the Macondo Board meetings, all those e-mails, the letters that are going to fans. And you've got to pay bills. These things eat up your time. You have to prepare and pack to go on that trip. Then when you come back you have to file all that stuff, answer all that mail, and that's not even washing the clothes or any of that. So it takes as many days as I've been away to come back to normal and to get quiet.
-
As soon as I arrive at the house, Laurie starts running, hits my chest, knocks me down, and licks my face. It's become a family ritual.
