Danny Thomas Quotes

All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don't discover why. Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.

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• I don't do grey. I like my colour, my style.

  

  Imelda May
  • Style
  • Colour
  • Grey

• The rehearsal is where it all happens for an actor.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Actor
  • Where
  • Rehearsal

• It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Friends
  • Know
  • More

• Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic.

  

  Patricia Meyer Spacks
  • Gossip
  • Bears
  • Flavor

• People are patronizing the theatres with renewed enthusiasm - there is an entire picnic-like attitude when families go out to see movies, which is a very good sign. They want to see larger-than-life characters on the big screen and not just watch movies on television or on DVDs.

  

  Salman Khan
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information from it. Because of the web we get 10 times the amount of noise we ever got, which makes harmful fallacies far more likely.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Guy
  • Small
  • Technology

• In 1255, Louis IX of France presented an elephant to Henry III of England to add to the menagerie of exotic animals he kept in the Tower of London.

  

  Karen Maitland
  • Animals
  • London
  • Elephant

• When I was younger I wanted to be a gymnast, but they have to be quite short - I was tall.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Wanted
  • Short
  • Tall

• The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Culture
  • Change
  • Progress

• I train for whatever happens. I'm prepared for wherever the fight goes.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Fight
  • Train
  • Wherever

• I've seen descriptions of advanced TV systems in which a simulation of reality is computer-controlled; the TV viewer of the future will wear a special helmet. You'll no longer be an external spectator to fiction created by others, but an active participant in your own fantasies/dramas.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Future
  • Reality
  • Special

• We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • Book
  • Freedom
  • Kind

• I feel I'm a strange mixture of insecurity and strength. Most of us, probably most people. I'm transferring that same concept to the people I photograph.

  

  Sally Mann
  • People
  • Same
  • Strength

• The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Work
  • Music
  • Community

• Weeks go by, and I don't talk to another living soul.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Soul
  • Living
  • Talk

• There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Nature
  • Rules
  • Laws

• A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Man
  • Humor
  • Sense Of Humor

• Good is somebody who delivered and allowed the company to overcome obstacles, without leaving a profound impact on its culture. Great is somebody who leads his company to achievements and performance and value that nobody was expecting it had.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Good
  • Great
  • Culture

• A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Time
  • World

• 'It is not wise, I think, to mix private revenge with war.' 'Of course it's not wise, but it's bloody enjoyable. Enjoying yourself, Sergeant?' 'Never been happier, sir.'

  

  Bernard Cornwell
  • War
  • Wise
  • Revenge

• I was involved with the landmines before the Princess of Wales, and nobody gave a damn about people losing their limbs. It only became a success when she came along.

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • Success
  • Princess
  • Damn

• In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Time
  • Back
  • Passport

• Well, you know I grew up wanting to be a Clemson Tiger and I ended up being able to play there and I went to school there.

  

  Lee Brice
  • Up
  • School
  • Tiger

• All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don't discover why. Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.

  

  Danny Thomas
  • Life
  • Why
  • Success