David Blaine Quotes

I was obsessed with the idea of fasting and isolation.

David Blaine

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• I wonder sometimes why the U.S. reviewers are more negative towards turn-based battle systems.

  

  Yuji Horii
  • Why
  • Wonder
  • Battle

• I saw what the Depression was doing to my students. Often they could get no jobs, or jobs which were wholly inadequate. And through them, I began to understand how deeply political and economic events could affect men's lives. I began to feel the need to participate more fully in the life of the community.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Life
  • Men
  • Political

• Ill give you a definite maybe.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • You
  • Give
  • Maybe

• ChicagoNEXT is focused on making Chicago the best possible place for technology entrepreneurs.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Technology
  • Best
  • Chicago

• I think I started to have thoughts to really want to be serious about my work when I was about twenty-five, and I just kind of started to look into that direction and moved into it.

  

  Maggie Cheung
  • Work
  • Think
  • Serious

• I'm still in touch with a lot people who continue to serve our country well.

  

  Oliver North
  • People
  • Country
  • Continue

• When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Determination

• If it's what you do and you can do it, then you do it.

  

  Van Morrison
  • You
  • Then
  • You Can Do It

• The thing is: in order to reach an agreement, to reach that balance, sometimes it is sort of like that old Rhinestone Cowboy lyric, 'There'll be a load of compromisin' on the road to my horizon.' For those of you who were too young, or don't recall the song, made famous by country singer Glen Campbell, it is your loss.

  

  Bart Chilton
  • Country
  • Song
  • Road

• I absolutely consider fashion a form of art. Of course, there is some fashion that is not art at all - it's utilitarian, made for the purpose of covering up. And there are a lot of people out there who put a lot of effort into looking awful. But there are also people putting the same amount of energy into making bad art.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • People
  • Up
  • Art

• One can make a case that says that since 85% of children being brought up in single family homes are being brought up by women that about 85% of elementary school teachers should be males to balance out the feminization that the boys and girls receive.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Up
  • Women
  • Children

• There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.

  

  Federico Garcia Lorca
  • Nothing
  • More
  • Battle

• The First World War had begun - imposed on the statesmen of Europe by railway timetables. It was an unexpected climax to the railway age.

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
  • World
  • War
  • Age

• Self-expression is impossible in relation with other men; their self-expression interferes with it. The greatest heights of self-expression in poetry, music, painting – are achieved by men who are supremely alone.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • Music
  • Men
  • Alone

• There are many kinds of gods. Therefore there are many kinds of men.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Men

• What is this thing called love? This funny thing called love? Just who can solve this mystery? Why should it make a fool of me?

  

  Cole Porter
  • Why
  • Funny
  • Fool

• De lo que tomo, tomo de más o de menos, no tomo lo justo. Lo justo no me sirve.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• It's such a long mission and we get to spend so much time in space... we're doing such exciting research. And I don't want to overemphasize the life science research, but as a physician the life science research that we're doing is extremely exciting.

  

  Laurel Clark
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• The mobile phone is used from when you get up in the morning and is often the last thing you interact with at night.

  

  Jan Chipchase
  • Up
  • Night
  • Morning

• Is action merely the incidental product of thought, or is thought the consequential product of action?

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Action
  • Product

• For example, for me, my brother helped me get a manager, which I don't take for granted. It's tough getting a manager, let alone one that actually cares about you and is smart. But from there, no one's going to cast me just because I'm James Franco's little brother.

  

  Dave Franco
  • Alone
  • Brother
  • Smart

• VIP Rosé you can have a beer Cuz honey when you gettin money you don't have a care

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Money
  • Care
  • Beer

• We are, heart and soul, friends to the freedom of the press...It is a precious pest, and a necessary mischief, and there would be no liberty without it.

  

  Fisher Ames
  • Heart
  • Freedom
  • Liberty

• I was obsessed with the idea of fasting and isolation.

  

  David Blaine