Irving Stone Quotes

Even if there is endless documentation, it would be impossible to know what a man thought inside his own mind... This is where the novelist's creative imagination has to take over.

Irving Stone

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• I think why I was attracted to making something with Vice is that level of intimacy that you get as the viewer, getting to see some of that production element where we don't exactly know what we're doing, where we're going, or even if it's a good idea.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Good
  • Why
  • Know

• I am a genre lover - everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Movie
  • Genre
  • Western

• Live TV would terrify anybody.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Live
  • Would
  • Anybody

• I saw a picture of Elvis in blue lame, and thought that if I could recreate that suit and walk down the King's Road in it, someone might pick me up and take me off on a crazy adventure.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • Up
  • Crazy
  • Road

• It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Work
  • Great
  • Thinking

• Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Succeed
  • Russian

• I have a very intimate knowledge of the world of the mentally ill and of life inside of, especially, public hospitals and the way people are treated in there and the way that they try to survive in there.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• Life doesn't stop because something happens to you.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Life
  • You
  • Stop

• The combination of olive oil, garlic and lemon juice lifts the spirits in winter.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Winter
  • Oil
  • Juice

• There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Bad
  • Authority
  • Separate

• Look, you need technical skills to run a company.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Look
  • Company
  • Skills

• Leeks, like other oniony things, reach a certain peak when fried. It's the subtle sweetness that suddenly becomes evident and works so well with their creamy texture.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Reach
  • Sweetness
  • Peak

• Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Stop
  • Water
  • Dog

• I just think something about being in front of a live audience when you've finished a big dance that you've been working on for so long - I don't think anything can really beat that.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Long
  • Live
  • Dance

• We need to give the Iraqis a chance to build their own future. It should be in their hands. It must be in their hands. That is what democracy is all about. We can teach it, we can explain it, but they must want it enough to make it work for them.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Work
  • Future
  • Democracy

• I wouldn't trade a thing. Even the troubles that I had. I have become the husband and mate to my wife that I have because of what I went through, including the bad times. I wouldn't trade that.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Bad
  • Wife
  • Husband

• Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Power
  • Me
  • Virtue

• There was a girl who messaged me and said she was on the verge of taking her life, then 'Battles' came on just in the nick of time.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Life
  • Time
  • She

• I used to listen to the radio, and when I was about 18 years old, B.B. King was a disc jockey and he had a radio program, 15 minutes a day, over in West Memphis, Arkansas, and he would play the blues.

  

  Koko Taylor
  • King

• Sports are the reason I am out of shape. I watch them all on TV.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Reason
  • Sports
  • Shapes

• Man, double-faced by nature, is placed by Revelation under a sharp, precise external rule, controlling his actions and his thoughts.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Thoughts

• I had got to the dawn of the beautiful not caring, but fully aware, stage, which degenerates so imperceptibly into the doing something unpermissible stage.

  

  Caitlin Thomas
  • Beautiful
  • Caring
  • Dawn

• We used to do 'Venus' live for a long time but never got 'round to recording it because people would always say it's too old-fashioned a song.

  

  Keren Woodward Bananarama
  • Song
  • Recording
  • Old-fashion

• Even if there is endless documentation, it would be impossible to know what a man thought inside his own mind... This is where the novelist's creative imagination has to take over.

  

  Irving Stone
  • Mind
  • Man
  • Imagination