David McCallum Quotes

But so far as countries are concerned, I don't go to a place to see what's there, but who is there.

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• Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • May
  • Today
  • Science

• How do people move on after they've lost the love of their life? It's a really interesting thing to look at. It happens to people every day: you see people... even in the worst, most war-torn places, people get up and continue with their lives. And it's a fascinating thing about human nature. That ability to just continue on.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • People
  • Life
  • Love

• When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Reason
  • Shock
  • Electrical

• Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Art
  • Artist
  • Personality

• I love Nelly. He's such a great performer. He's so hyper and so am I.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Performer
  • Hyper
  • Nelly

• The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Hope
  • Imagination
  • Lose

• I can never let the guy across from me be in better shape. I have to be the best-conditioned guy.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Guy
  • Me
  • Never

• Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Small
  • Always
  • Snake

• Our economy's growth functions by inciting us to produce more and more with each passing year. In turn, we require cultural forms to enable us to sort through the glut, and our rituals are once again directed towards the immaterial, towards quality and not quantity.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Quality
  • Growth
  • Year

• Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Creativity
  • Enthusiasm

• Sometimes I read a really good script, and I just know that it's not a good fit.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Good
  • Know
  • Sometimes

• I work hard at what I do, and it does take time and a lot of commitment, so for me, it is proving to other people that I'm not just another dummy.

  

  Tali Lennox
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• I suppose where I am sort of reflects the work I have chosen to do. Are there occasional frustrations because I can't work with a certain director because it's a big studio movie, and I don't have enough of a studio profile? The answer is yes. But generall... generally, I have the career I have chosen myself.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Work
  • Movie
  • Career

• I'm not a sex symbol. How could I be with these skinny bowlegs?

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Sex
  • Symbol
  • Skinny

• When you're a little kid, you just like music that makes you happy and is fun. As you get older, you reach college or your 20s and you decide that music should be challenging and all art should be smart. So you start to think it makes you like high art more to put down things you consider low art. I don't even think things are low art.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Music
  • Art
  • Happy

• That thing, 'You must stay together for the kids', is out of fashion but is right. It's not arguing parents that children don't like, it is having one parent.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Children
  • Kids
  • Together

• I haven't pursued it as a senator because I know it's like spitting in the wind. But I still believe it's the right thing. And if I were governor and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Believe
  • Wind
  • Gun

• But by all this I am not deterred, for I have seen, I have heard, I have felt.

  

  Emanuel Swedenborg

• My mum says, 'Go with your first instinct,' but this can lead to impulse buying!

  

  Lindsay Lohan

• I always lived by railroads, and I would find places to just look at the horizon, and I always expected there was something somewhere else. And sometimes I think that's more a metaphysical somewhere else rather than just to get out of the town.

  

  Jason Molina

• Metal has its own code of cool, but it's not really trying to be cool. And that was very refreshing to me, that metal is very much about expressing something that seems awesome to you even if, at the time, much of the world was going to mock and reject it.

  

  John Darnielle
  • Time
  • World
  • Trying

• I arrived thinking I had these amazing looks and body and that I would straight away land the lead in a Yash Chopra film. Those fancy ideas got quashed soon enough.

  

  Arfi Lamba
  • Thinking
  • Amazing

• But so far as countries are concerned, I don't go to a place to see what's there, but who is there.

  

  David McCallum