Billy Wilder Quotes

The best director is the one you don't see.

Billy Wilder

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• I'm very self-critical.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Very
  • Self-Critical

• Glasgow has truly become my home away from home.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Home
  • Become
  • Away

• I have an obsession with fashion - it's another form of expression for me - and I have a growing collection of vintage clothes and jewelry. Being able to play dress-up for my career has been a gift.

  

  Karen Fairchild Little Big Town
  • Up
  • Career
  • Growing

• I don't think there is much value in trying to use the moon as a base to go to Mars. That's going into one gravity belt and having to get back out of it again. And the moon doesn't have a lot to offer as a resource base.

  

  Edgar Mitchell
  • Trying
  • Value
  • Moon

• As with any moderately famous person, footballers are the source of much gossip. In fact, I'd go as far as to say they are targeted. The fun part as their partner is not knowing who, or what, to believe.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Believe
  • Fun
  • Famous

• When people are poor, they find ways of making things taste like fish.

  

  Ma Jian
  • People
  • Find
  • Fish

• I'm someone who likes plowing new ground, then walking away from it. I get bored easily. For me, the big thrill comes with the discovering.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Me
  • Walking
  • Bored

• At Cheney's initiative, the United States stripped terror suspects of long-established rights under domestic and international law, building a new legal edifice under exclusive White House ownership.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Long
  • House
  • Law

• I lived in San Pedro, California, which is, you know, on the west side of California, and it's where many, many Japanese lived.

  

  Yuri Kochiyama
  • You
  • Know
  • California

• I think diversity is something that should be celebrated because it's who we are as a world, and little kids need to be able to turn on the TV and see real-world representations of themselves. It's very important.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • World
  • Important
  • Real

• For me, Warhol made so much sense.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Me
  • Made
  • Sense

• I didn't always have 14,000 people wanting to hang out with me on a Saturday night.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Night
  • Always

• Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Last
  • Consistency
  • Refuge

• The Christian response is contained in these two fundamental dogmas: that of the Trinity and that of the Incarnation. In the trinitarian dogma God is one, good, true, and beautiful because he is essentially Love, and Love supposes the one, the other, and their unity.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • Good
  • God
  • True

• Leaving Interscope was not a personal thing. These record companies are a certain kind of machine, and we weren't able to function in it.

  

  Yolandi Visser
  • Kind
  • Leaving
  • Personal

• A constant goal of mine is to try to put myself back in the place when I wrote something - not just to perform it on a surface level, but to re-enter that headspace, that emotion. That's the point of a live show - for it to feel immediate and present and a little bit unpredictable.

  

  K. Flay
  • Live
  • Myself
  • Present

• Arc, amplitude, and curvature sustain a similar relation to each other as time, motion, and velocity, or as volume, mass, and density.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Time

• 'What will they do when they have only the herbs' he asked her.'Live or die as best they can,' she said. 'Everything truly alive dies sooner or later.'

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Live
  • She
  • Die

• Of all human sentiments, enthusiasm creates the most happiness; it is the only sentiment in fact which gives real happiness, the only sentiment which can help us to bear our human destiny in any situation in which we may find ourselves.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Real
  • May
  • Help

• If I am able to pass on what I've learnt in my life, that's really wonderful, especially after losing Dad.

  

  Bindi Irwin
  • Life
  • Dad

• He who is the cause of another's advancement is thereby the cause of his own ruin.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Cause
  • Ruin
  • Advancement

• If you're giving love and not receiving it, you're not in the right relationship. If you're receiving it and not giving it than you are taking advantage of the other person.

  

  Patti Stanger
  • Giving
  • Relationship

• I have no question: It is enough, I know what fixed the station Of star and cloud. And knowing all, I cry. . . .

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Enough
  • Stars
  • Knowing

• The best director is the one you don't see.

  

  Billy Wilder