David Kirk Quotes

The entrance into Jerusalem has all the elements of the theatre of the absurd: the poor king; truth comes riding on a donkey; symbolic actions - even parading without a permit!

David Kirk

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• I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined; and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling.

  

  Frances Burney
  • Truth
  • History
  • Wish

• Well, I happen to believe all business is female business.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • Believe
  • Business
  • Happen

• Country music is three chords and the truth.

  

  Harlan Howard
  • Music
  • Country
  • Truth

• If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Mother

• A lion is called a 'king of beasts' obviously for a reason.

  

  Jack Hanna
  • Reason
  • King
  • Lion

• We are a nation of immigrants, and if the truth be known, don't we need a whole lot of immigrants to be buying homes and to drive our economy and to take jobs that U.S. citizens don't want?

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Truth
  • Want
  • Economy

• It's always good news when you're closer to the truth.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Good
  • Truth
  • News

• I gradually became persuaded that the subjects, without intending to, had revealed to me a basic truth about markets that was foreign to the literature of economics.

  

  Vernon L. Smith
  • Truth
  • Literature
  • Economics

• I used to say to my bubbe, 'Bubbe, is this story true?' And she'd say, 'Of course it's true! But it may not have happened.' What my bubbe was saying is profound: All stories are true. The truth is the journey you take through it - did it make you laugh, cry, seek and want justice? Then it's true.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Truth
  • True
  • Justice

• Sometimes you feel you have the truth of a moment in your hand, then it slips through your fingers and is lost.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Truth
  • Lost
  • Hand

• In truth, every creation of the mind is first of all 'poetic' in the proper sense of the word; and inasmuch as there exists an equivalence between the modes of sensibility and intellect, it is the same function that is exercised initially in the enterprises of the poet and the scientist.

  

  Saint-John Perse
  • Mind
  • Truth
  • Same

• The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Truth
  • Know
  • Truth Is

• I did theatre all my life and then went into the film world. I then kind of segued into TV land, which is a different experience.

  

  T. J. Thyne
  • Life
  • World
  • Different

• I really don't know where my interest in death comes from. Maybe I've just got a twisted imagination. The truth is, I haven't had a hugely eventful life - maybe I'm compensating in my creative life. Or maybe I'm just a bit sick.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Death

• When I first started, I worked with my father, Alex 'Little Bill' Wallace; he was a guitarist like B.B. King. I was around 13 when I started, and I learned a lot by looking and listening. I learned how to be a bandleader from watching that band work.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Work
  • Father
  • Band

• I'd like to be for cinema what Shakespeare was for theatre, Marx for politics and Freud for psychology: someone after whom nothing is as it used to be.

  

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • Politics
  • Theatre
  • Psychology

• Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Lie

• I grew up doing musical theatre in Orlando, Florida. When I was 14, I just happened to be in the right place at the right time - a deliveryman heard me singing and offered to deliver my demo tape to Sony Music. I was just really lucky.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• In our development, as we grow throughout our lives, the structure of our beliefs becomes very complicated, and we make it even more complicated because we make the assumption that what we believe is the absolute truth.

  

  Don Miguel Ruiz
  • Believe
  • Truth
  • Assumption

• Even if I'd wanted to work at Goldman Sachs, they weren't going to hire me, because I was saying things like, 'That's a dumb question' when I was asked something stupid in the interviews. I just didn't have a lot of respect for authority.

  

  Mark Pincus
  • Work
  • Respect
  • Question

• Any question you have, most likely someone else is having as well.

  

  Emily Bett Rickards
  • Question

• Hast thou chosen, O my people, on whose party thou shalt stand,Ere the Doom from its worn sandals shakes the dust against our land?Though the cause of Evil prosper, yet ’tis Truth alone is strong,And, albeit she wander outcast now, I see around her throngTroops of beautiful, tall angels, to enshield her from all wrong.

  

  James Russell Lowell
  • People
  • She
  • Truth

• The entrance into Jerusalem has all the elements of the theatre of the absurd: the poor king; truth comes riding on a donkey; symbolic actions - even parading without a permit!

  

  David Kirk
  • Truth
  • Theatre
  • King