Emma Thompson Quotes

I don't really know how to thank the Academy for this. And if I try we'll be here till Christmas. So I better get on...

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• Comedy's really subjective, you know; that's why it's so hard.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Why
  • Know
  • Comedy

• Ultimately, I'm not the most prolific person, but I've been doing this for a long time, and I keep on putting out music. The only thing that drives music is the people who are making it.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Parent
  • Point
  • Where

• When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Help
  • Fun
  • Gift

• It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Change
  • Me
  • Grief

• If I go into the place in myself that is love, and you go into the place in yourself that is love, we are together in love. Then you and I are truly in love, the state of being love. That's the entrance to Oneness. That's the space I entered when I met my guru.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Love
  • Together
  • Space

• I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Great
  • God
  • Evil

• But though cognition is not an element of mental action, nor even in any real sense of the word an aspect of it, the distinction of cognition and conation has if properly defined a definite value.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Real
  • Action
  • Value

• The first time that I ever saw Babe Ruth was in the Boston Red Sox clubhouse.

  

  Waite Hoyt
  • Time
  • Red
  • First

• The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of social scientists who, though they are still comparatively few, are getting more and more of a hearing.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • School
  • Society
  • Very

• I'm most excited about all of the non-currency uses of the block chain's ledger-ordering ability. I have no idea which ones will turn out to be successful, but I'm glad all of that experimenting is happening.

  

  Gavin Andresen
  • Idea
  • Successful
  • Ability

• I wish my teammates, coaches and the entire Lions organization all the best.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Wish
  • Best
  • Organization

• For me, I've always wanted to be a nun. I mean, I think about what it's like to be a nun. And I've always been fascinated with nuns, and I have a nun collection, I've been collecting nuns for 20 years. And I have a song that I wrote, 'I Wanna Be a Nun,' when I was 25.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Song
  • Fascinated
  • Wrote

• Dressing for yourself and not a man is definitely something I advocate.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Man
  • Yourself
  • Advocate

• Nancy Pelosi says the angry opposition to health care reform is like the angry opposition to gay rights that led to Harvey Milk being shot.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Health
  • Care
  • Gay

• His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork.

  

  Mae West
  • Mother
  • Should
  • Him

• I used to a lot. I used to go dancing.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Used
  • Dancing
  • Go

• Cricket is my first love.

  

  Yohan Blake
  • Love
  • Cricket
  • First Love

• I would rather spend one lifetime with you, than face all the ages of this world alone.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • For Her
  • Lifetime
  • Ages

• My boy is a mean kid. I came home the other day and saw him taping worms to the sidewalk, he sits there and watches the birds get hernias. Well, only last Christmas I gave him a B-B gun and he gave me a sweatshirt with a bulls-eye on the back. I told my kids, "Someday, you'll have kids of your own." One of them said, "So will you."

  

  Jack Roy
  • Home
  • Kids
  • Boy

• Fine old Christmas, with the snowy hair and ruddy face, had done his duty that year in the noblest fashion, and had set off his rich gifts of warmth and color with all the heightening contrast of frost and snow.

  

  George Eliot
  • Fashion
  • Christmas
  • Duty

• Reputation runs behind the current state of affairs.

  

  Mason Cooley

• I very much wished not to be noticed, and to be left alone, and I sort of succeeded.

  

  Mary Oliver
  • Alone

• I don't really know how to thank the Academy for this. And if I try we'll be here till Christmas. So I better get on...

  

  Emma Thompson
  • Christmas