Demosthenes Quotes
Good fortune is the greatest of blessings, but good counsel comes next, and the lack of it destroys the other also.
Quotes to Explore
-
If in my twenties I'd gotten one of the two-dozen roles that I did screen tests for and almost got, I think I would have become bored with the awards circuit, the whole hype machine.
-
To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.
-
People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.
-
When I was a kid, I wanted a Chanel bob and bangs. My mom said no. I went to the salon anyway, and they said, 'No way - we are not going to do that to your hair.' So I did it myself. Big mistake. Instead of my bangs going down straight, they were sticking up like a cat. It was horrible.
-
It has an air about it of having strolled in from the street with a few tricks up its sleeve, and if everybody would relax, please, it would do its best to pass the time whimsically.
-
For the longest time, my older brother told me he was teaching me self-defense, but now that I'm grown up, I realize he was just practicing his martial arts on me.
-
Design can successfully bind the ancient nomadic cultures with today's global marketplace, ensuring the preservation of traditions and knowledge for further generations. This aspect of research is obviously rich in its business potential as well.
-
I'm not one icon. I'm every icon. I'm an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.
-
I can't live without activity; I can't be sedentary.
-
Lots of people think the violence in the films I make is overwhelming, but they think they're seeing something that they aren't seeing.
-
Whenever I have a bad day I just think of these people.
-
I've always been attracted to action stuff.
-
Semiotics is really interested in the questions like, what keeps you watching something, what keeps you - you know, what keeps you listening to a story on the radio? Like, what keeps you turning the pages in a book? What's the pleasure of it that's moving you forward, that's pulling you in and grabbing you and pulling you forward?
-
You walk on a set, and you have no idea - that's why I don't storyboard. It's all possible.
-
Yesterday is a cancelled check. Today is cash on the line. Tomorrow is a promissory note.
-
Whom am I going to trust if I have to back again.
-
I have to consider my greatest accomplishments winning the Olympics because everything that I've done after that is really because of the Olympics.
-
I would like to say when I turn the project over to the label that I have been successful. And that's truly the way I feel. But, in addition to the self-pride in 'making' a good album, to be honest, I'd love to have a hit record.
-
I'm a pretty open person. Like, if I have good sex, then the next day I'm going to tell everyone I know about it.
-
I eat very well. I cook for my family every night. We eat a variety of things, including chicken, fish, pork, lentils, all veggies, pastas, and salads. You name it, we eat it - except salmon, which I find disgusting. Sorry, salmon.
-
I was really just the tea boy to begin with, or the equivalent thereof, but I quickly announced, innocently but very ambitiously, that I wanted to be, I was going to be, a foreign correspondent.
-
Good fortune is the greatest of blessings, but good counsel comes next, and the lack of it destroys the other also.
