Emma Thompson Quotes

You can't imagine what satisfaction can be gotten from throwing a pie into someone's face.

Emma Thompson

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• I wasn't really taught about the value of money. I just learnt it as I grew up, but I do remember my dad telling me that it was important to always have some savings, and that stuck with me. I've always believed that putting money aside is a good thing.

  

  Laura Trott
  • Up
  • Good
  • Important

• I went from being an ailing child to a public enemy.

  

  Pat Morita
  • Enemy
  • Child
  • Being

• Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Time
  • Art
  • Me

• The opponents and I are really one. My strength and skills only half of the equation. The other half is theirs. An opponent is someone whose strength joined to yours creates a certain result.

  

  Sadaharu Oh
  • Strength
  • Someone
  • Skills

• I hope to do big action movies and strong dramas, and to produce films. I also want to get kids more involved in what's going on in the world and to be politically active.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • World
  • Kids
  • Hope

• I attend Internet conferences all the time, and they literally make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Up
  • Time
  • Internet

• My commitment to the Republican movement was pure and simply patriotism, a love of Australia... a desire or passion that all of our national symbols should be unequivocally and unambiguously Australian.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Desire
  • Passion
  • Movement

• I'm not interested in being Franchise Boy.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Boy
  • Being
  • Franchise

• People aren't just paying more to fill their gas tanks or when they pay for their heating bills for their home; they are paying more at the grocery store, on air travel and for many other daily expenses.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • People
  • Home
  • Air

• In boxing, it's one fight, so it's easier to build up rivalries, but everyone's got huge respect for each other.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Up
  • Respect
  • Fight

• I'm all about the supplements. I take fish oil every single day, as well as vitamin D, magnesium, B complex, vitamin C.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Single
  • Day
  • Fish

• You could grow up in Germany in the postwar years without ever meeting a Jewish person. There were small communities in Frankfurt or Berlin, but in a provincial town in south Germany, Jewish people didn't exist.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • People
  • Up
  • Small

• To write, you need to find what you love.

  

  D. J. MacHale
  • Love
  • Write
  • Find

• Hopefully, there's a place in music for Tinted Windows. If we're really trying to be iconic, we should just stop right now. If one of us could die, that would also help. But I don't think anybody wants that gig.

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Help

• I like 'Bewitched' off the first album because it's one of the happiest songs I've ever written and, as any writer will tell you, happy songs are a million times more difficult to write than sad songs.

  

  Malcolm Wilson
  • Happy
  • You
  • Sad

• Imams must ridicule Caliphate fantasies. Exchange programmes between Muslim-only schools and non-Muslim-majority schools should be initiated. Community-based debates around these themes must no longer be shut down from fear of offence.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Fear
  • Community
  • Down

• I learned to play the piano on my mother's knee - that was before we got a piano.

  

  Victor Borge
  • Mother

• As the variable capital always stays in the hands of the capitalist in some form or other, it cannot be claimed in any way that it converts itself into revenue for anyone.

  

  Karl Marx

• The genre of science fiction is a fun house, an amusement park ride, but it's also a problem. The question that's always being indirectly asked is this: 'Just who do we think we are and, further, who do we want to be?'

  

  Douglas Lain
  • Fun
  • House
  • Science

• If you want to know what cram is, I can only say that I don’t know the recipe; but it is biscuitish, keeps good indefinitely, is supposed to be sustaining, and is certainly not entertaining, being in fact very uninteresting except as a chewing exercise.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Exercise
  • Entertaining
  • Recipe

• So now, for mercy and honor shown to my people, my lord is barbarous; a tyrant, because he punished his would-be murderers, the right of their meanest citizen; a mere vaunting soldier, though wherever he went he brought Greece with him, the Greece he honored, of which these liars are the unworthy heirs.

  

  Mary Renault
  • People
  • Honor
  • Soldier

• Well, I'm not able to work anymore as an actor and still at the level I would want to ... you start to lose your memory, you start to lose your confidence, you start to lose your invention. So, that's pretty much a closed book for me. And I'm grateful for the other things that have come into my life: grandkids, and restaurants and charity ... I've been doing it for 50 years. That's enough.

  

  Paul Newman
  • Book
  • Enough
  • Memories

• You can't imagine what satisfaction can be gotten from throwing a pie into someone's face.

  

  Emma Thompson