David Niven Quotes

Malta is a sod of a place.

David Niven

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• I went to the studio of Fischli Weiss, and it was magical. I thought: 'This is what I want to do with my life; I want to work with artists and be useful to them.' I was magnetically attracted.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Life
  • Work
  • Thought

• The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts.

  

  Karl Abraham
  • Able
  • Instincts
  • Repression

• Ability is nothing without opportunity.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Opportunity
  • Ability

• Everybody eats a little differently, but the more where you are aware of what you put in your body and how it affects your performance, the better opportunities you have. And that's what I'm trying to do.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Trying
  • Opportunities
  • Performance

• If you don't go to a dance, you can never be rejected, but you'll never get to dance, either.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • You
  • Never
  • Dance

• Social media are a catalyst for the advancement of everyone's rights. It's where we're reminded that we're all human and all equal. It's where people can find and fight for a cause, global or local, popular or specialized, even when there are hundreds of miles between them.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • People
  • Popular
  • Equality

• I've been at it since 1967, and I still love it. There is nothing quite like making people laugh.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • People
  • Like
  • Laugh

• There are still some pieces that aren't being used, like the white-space bands between TV channels. With digital broadcasting, those buffers aren't needed anymore. The wireless telcos want to lease them, while the TV industry wants to maintain the status quo. Either decision would be a mistake.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • Want
  • Space
  • Decision

• There's more to me than fashion. I just don't want to be seen as fashion.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Want
  • Me
  • Fashion

• I know a lot of people that have had fake Twitters... actors and musicians that I know. It's sort of a problem. There are all these people that sign up thinking that they're getting somebody's real thoughts when it's just some guy.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Up
  • Thinking

• Play as well as you can; that's it, as opposed to creating these odd paranoias, trying to be something you're not.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Trying
  • You
  • Creating

• The first time I heard 'Jolene,' I was 12 years old, and it was performed by Jack White. I remember watching that video and forgetting it was from a woman's point of view, and forgetting it was a country song, and forgetting it was originally by Dolly Parton.

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • Time
  • Country
  • Remember

• My own death threats have declined considerably.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Death
  • Own
  • My Own

• It is Earlier Than We Think.

  

  Vannevar Bush

• According to the Upanishads, the complete aspect of Truth is in the reconciliation on the finite and the infinite, of everchanging things and the eternal spirit of perfection. When in our life and work the harmony between these two is broken, then either our life is thinned into a shadow, or it becomes gross with accumulations.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Life
  • Work
  • Truth

• It doesn't matter if I am better than Cristiano Ronaldo, all that matters is that Barcelona are better than Madrid.

  

  Lionel Messi

• I'm getting more and more comfortable out on the golf course with the changes I've been making. It's really just a confidence thing in that I love being in contention.

  

  Paula Creamer
  • Confidence
  • Golf

• No dream is too big. No challenge is too great. Nothing we want for our future is beyond our reach.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Great
  • Future
  • Dream

• I can't dance like Hrithik Roshan. I don't have the necessary glamour like some of the other actors do. They are able to sell themselves on that aspect. I do roles and films which are very realistic. So, in those films, if you don't get into the skin of it, they won't look convincing.

  

  R. Madhavan
  • Dance
  • Actors
  • Films

• When a series is doing well, it's very tempting to keep writing it, even when the creative well is drying up. It's tempting because that's where the money is. I've had to be very careful; as soon as I think I'm getting close to that dry well, I wrap the series up. I don't want to just keep writing something because it sells.

  

  Kelley Armstrong
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Money

• Opportunity can benefit no man who has not fitted himself to seize it and use it. Opportunity woos the worthy, shuns the unworthy. Prepare yourself to grasp opportunity, and opportunity is likely to come your way. It is not so fickle, capricious and unreasoning as some complain.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Men
  • Opportunity
  • Complaining

• Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be sin to know, Can it be death? And do they only stand By ignorance? Is that their happy state, The proof of their obedience and their faith? O fair foundation laid whereon to build Their ruin!

  

  John Milton
  • Knowledge
  • Suspicious
  • Forbidden

• Think you have a low opinion of government? You should see government's opinion of you!

  

  David Burge
  • Government
  • Opinion
  • Should

• Malta is a sod of a place.

  

  David Niven