Billy Wilder Quotes

One's too many, and a hundred's not enough.

Billy Wilder

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• I must've been a bird in some previous lifetime. I feel like I'm called to flying - the convenience and the beauty of it. That feeling of soaring would be empowering.

  

  Rachel Keller
  • Feeling
  • Beauty
  • Bird

• I feel like my kind of music is a big pot of different spices. It's a soup with all kinds of ingredients in it.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Music
  • Different
  • Kind

• I don't have a director. The audience directs me.

  

  Hal Holbrook
  • Me
  • Audience
  • Director

• One of the writers I most admire is Hilary Mantel because in the middle of her career, she just changed paths entirely and became just a totally different novelist.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Different
  • She
  • Career

• I'd like to to do a major pay-per-view match with Seth Rollins. I'd love do a major pay-per-view match with Stardust.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Like
  • Pay
  • View

• I've managed stations.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Stations

• We are living our lives more online and you need to have different ways to capture that.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Different
  • You
  • Need

• And who knows? Somewhere out there in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president's spouse. I wish him well!

  

  Barbara Bush
  • May
  • House
  • Wish

• You have to be forward-moving and able to balance a lot of things at the same time. I attribute a lot of that to the Marine Corps and Juilliard both.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Time
  • Moving
  • Balance

• My pledge is to be part of the solution to focus on governing, to put my experience to work to help solve the very serious issues we're facing in this country.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Work
  • Country
  • Experience

• BlogHer is an incredibly important conference because it really taps into the power of women. It gives women an ability to do what they do - take care of the home, go to work - and, at the same time, spread their power through the power of the digital world.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Time
  • World
  • Work

• I struggle to come up to people and say what I think.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • People
  • Up
  • Think

• I'm a nice middle-class girl in real life, and I'm a mom and a grandma, and I usually play sweet characters.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Life
  • Real
  • Girl

• I'm a compulsive buyer. Anything beautiful I see I want. That's how we got the Waldorf Astoria. I told Conrad Hilton, 'I want the Waldorf,' and he bought it. The only problem was I divorced him before the escrow was finished.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Want
  • Beautiful
  • Problem

• At PETA, we often say that the issue of how animals are treated isn't just about them; it's about us, how we behave.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Say
  • Animals
  • Often

• I love my dad, and I'm proud to be his daughter.

  

  Paris Jackson
  • Love
  • Dad
  • Proud

• Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Great
  • Men
  • Heart

• Thirty centuries of history allow us to look with supreme pity on certain doctrines which are preached beyond the Alps by the descendants of those who were illiterate when Rome had Caesar, Virgil and Augustus.

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • History

• I didn't fit the typical profile of a trader. I was an English major working on a novel at night. Most everyone else was a maths or economics major; most everyone else had relatives or family in banking.

  

  Philipp Meyer
  • Family
  • Night
  • English

• I mean thats a big part of our existence here on earth, the personal relationship we have with the person that we love, with the person that we make love to, with the person that we share our lives with. We expect a lot of things back from our loved one, and the lesson is to accept and not expect.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Earth
  • Relationship
  • Existence

• This is the power of the powerful to define, to structure, to say, 'This is the way the world works.' It's enormous power. Among the powers of the weak, I think the first one is the power not to believe the powerful.

  

  Elizabeth Janeway
  • World
  • Believe
  • Thinking

• For me, the question was, how can one take a live-action performance and put it in the parameter of one of those cartoons? How much can you get away with?

  

  Johnny Depp
  • Question
  • Performance
  • Cartoons

• One's too many, and a hundred's not enough.

  

  Billy Wilder