Paul Valery Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Star Wars was magnificent, but you could tell Darth Vader's ships were glued together.
-
If the interview was done in the studio, Frank McGee would automatically do it. But if I went out and got it, then the interview was mine. So I was considered a pushy cookie, because I would get the interview.
-
The Open Access Movement has fought valiantly to ensure that scientists do not sign their copyrights away but instead ensure their work is published on the Internet, under terms that allow anyone to access it.
-
There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.
-
I want to do roles that take women a step farther. I don't want to be slotted into anything. But if I get a brilliant role which requires me to be a mother, then I will do it. But I want people to see that a woman could be anything at whatever age, even if she is married or has two kids.
-
Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
-
There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.
-
It's not like I ever sat in my room and said I was going to start a media company and become an editor in chief. It was never my dream. It was something that just happened.
-
Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.
-
You want maybe to be that guy or one of the few guys who can help develop the game in the United States.
-
It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.
-
If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
-
As far as my journal, I want to share tour life with my fans.
-
A man can make himself put down what comes, even if it seems nauseating nonsense; tomorrow some of it may not seem wholly nonsense at all.
-
I write almost every single part of my songs, even the actual drum parts sometimes, whether they be simple or layered with many different instruments.
-
Do you want to feel good, or do you want to do good?
-
I can speak a little bit of Hindi but understand every word.
-
We don't go against the will of the people.
-
A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the result of sudden impulse and accident than of that reason of which we so much boast.
-
The more one reads poetry, the less tolerant one becomes of any sort of verbosity, be that in political or philosophical discourse, be that in history, social studies or the art of fiction.
-
True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.
-
I always worried that the creative well would dry up. I was sure that if I wrote a book a year, I would eventually run out of ideas. Actually, the opposite has been true for me. The more I write, the more ideas come to me and it gets easier.
-
When you work on a pre-existing character, when you end up getting invited to be part of a legacy character like Superman, I don't feel like it would be true to the character if all I did was go in looking to express my own voice.
-
A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others.
