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

• Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Great
  • You
  • Learning

• The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise that.

  

  Zara Phillips
  • People
  • Work
  • Family

• 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

• My big influences are Joni Mitchell, and a lot of classical and Indian music, as well as Nina Simone and the personal blues and jazz of Billie Holiday. Other influences for me include Bjork, Nick Drake, and Sufjan Stevens.

  

  Yael Naim
  • Music
  • Holiday
  • Jazz

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

  

  A. J. Buckley
  • Work
  • Bad
  • Pretty

• In 2012, I helped lead the successful effort in Congress to allow states to conduct drug testing of people receiving unemployment benefits.

  

  Kevin Brady
  • People
  • Effort
  • Drug

• If you have a difficult marriage, it's the hard times that make it better. If you have a relationship, it's the hard times that actually make it better, and that goes for life as well.

  

  Kerry Stokes
  • Life
  • Relationship
  • Marriage

• Do you know what causes low voter turnout in America? It's the result of having the fate of our nation at stake. This began with the bitter presidential election of 1828, which pitted the education, cultivation, and puritan constraint of John Quincy Adams against the yahoo populism of Andrew Jackson, thereby deciding permanently whether America would become a shining city upon a hill or an overlighted strip mall along a highway.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Fate
  • Bitter
  • Presidential

• When the Day of Judgment dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their heavenly rewards, the Almighty will gaze upon the mere bookworms and say to Peter, “Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them. They have loved reading.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • People
  • Giving
  • Reading

• I was never like, 'Oh, I really want to play Cinderella.' That's not necessarily always been the dream. But it's super fun to play a princess.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Fun
  • Dream
  • Play

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

  

  Billy Wilder