Billy Wilder Quotes

I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood.

Billy Wilder

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• There's no more to Holden Caulfield. Read the book again. It's all there. Holden Caulfield is only a frozen moment in time.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Time
  • Book
  • Moment

• Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • End
  • Consciousness
  • Torture

• The fact that we're living in a country where 90 percent of the people want further gun laws - to maybe somehow put a dent in some of this insanity that's happening - and yet there's no further legislation taking place, it's very frustrating and upsetting.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • People
  • Country
  • Gun

• I made a clean version of 'Enter the Ninja' that my mom can listen to.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Mom
  • Listen
  • Clean

• I have a good mind but I don't like to bore anyone with it.

  

  Rae Dawn Chong
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Like

• I always like to preserve my freedom. I've never really been attached to any place; that's probably why I kept moving. I like to evolve.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Why
  • Freedom
  • Moving

• I think on a bucket list for a performer is definitely doing a stage show, whether it's in Vegas or on Broadway or whatever.

  

  Lacey Schwimmer
  • Think
  • Doing
  • Vegas

• Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • Sacred
  • Cows
  • Hamburger

• I actually remember the exact date I got the call that I got the 'Spider-Man: Homecoming' role - May 6, 2016. It was probably the best day of my life.

  

  Jacob Batalon
  • Life
  • May
  • Remember

• We need to work tirelessly to help create new jobs and good jobs here in Florida.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Good
  • Work
  • Help

• I would say that one of the things that encouraged me so much when I became elected to the leadership was the letters I received from fathers of daughters, saying that, 'My daughter can now do many more things because of what you did.'

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Leadership
  • Daughter
  • Fathers

• I'm part Filipino, part Japanese, part Chinese, part Malaysian, and part Spanish, and all those people, they love their karaoke. So whenever my family got together, we'd all karaoke.

  

  Manika
  • People
  • Family
  • Together

• The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Space
  • Dinosaurs
  • Extinct

• I'm pretty lucky to work on both 'CSI: NY' and 'Supernatural.' Not bad gigs!

  

  A. J. Buckley
  • Work
  • Bad
  • Pretty

• I don't know if it's changing already with 'Joanne,' but my intention is to bring people together that don't know each other and that would maybe feel awkward, but somehow be brought together by the music. That's what I wanted to do. Because that is pure and authentic to my family history and what I stand for.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Music
  • Family

• She wore a dress Ronan thought looked like a lampshade. Whatever sort of lamp it belonged on, Gansey clearly wished he had one. Ronan wasn't a fan of lamps.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • She

• This SimChuck is one suave bastard.

  

  Chuck Klosterman

• The thing I always try to remember is that feet are attached to the leg, and that you must prolong the silhouette. The shoe elongates the leg and does it discreetly. The goal is to get people to look at a woman's legs. It's all about the leg. No, it's not about the leg. It's about the woman.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • People
  • Remember

• I have argued tirelessly, nearly endlessly, in so many books, about the need for the social, the economic reconstruction of society. The demand that people be present themselves, that they contribute to the reorganization of society, that they own up to their own complicity in a system from which they derive benefit and advantage, often without acknowledgement, and the discomfort, the uncomfortable way in which that must be acknowledged.

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
  • Book
  • Economic
  • Uncomfortable

• To me it's no accident that all the symphony orchestras around the world tune up to the note A. And A is 440 cycles, except in Germany where it's 444. But the universe is 450 cycles. So what I'm trying to say is, I think it's God's voice, melody especially. Counterpoint, retrograde inversion, harmony... that's the science and the craft.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Up
  • World
  • God

• I do think being a prissy tomboy helps me in raising a son in general. I wrestle with him, play ball, play in the sandbox with him. As a mom, you get bruises, scrapes on your knee.

  

  Jaime Pressly
  • Mom
  • Son

• I've found throughout the years that I needed a place where I can go with no TV, no computer, no phone and just have no distractions and just be able to sit and think and just not be disturbed.

  

  Josh Turner

• I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood.

  

  Billy Wilder