Preston Sturges Quotes

The more you stand in the limelight, the more scarred you will become and the more you will love the limelight.

Preston Sturges

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• Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Men
  • Women
  • Earth

• I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Up
  • Country
  • Children

• It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • May
  • Speak
  • Act

• Just because you have a learning difficulty or difference doesn't mean you aren't smart.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Learning
  • Smart
  • Difference

• I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Prove

• I know that there are many things I could do, but I'm not interested. It's more important to be loving and to have a lively mind.

  

  Veruschka von Lehndorff
  • Important
  • Mind
  • Know

• It's not easy, especially in our politically polarized world, to recognize both the structural and the cultural barriers that so many poor kids face. But I think that if you don't recognize both, you risk being heartless or condescending, and often both.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • World
  • Kids
  • Risk

• My dad wasn't the biggest role model, but he was a great musician and I loved him very much. He was a character.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Great
  • Character
  • Dad

• I'm not over the top; I'm not wacky. I'm fairly understated, and that reflects in the way I sing.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Way
  • Top
  • Wacky

• I'm afraid of the dark, so I have a lot of night-lights.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Night
  • Dark
  • Afraid

• If Ralph Nader runs, President Bush is going to be re-elected, and if Ralph Nader doesn't run, President Bush is going to be re-elected. We're going to run on the president's strong and principled leadership and his positive agenda for a second term.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • Strong
  • Positive
  • Leadership

• In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently.

  

  Harry A. Blackmun
  • Equality
  • Racism
  • Treat

• I have seen many ladies displaying different styles and different styles displaying ladies.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Different
  • Seen
  • Many

• If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the Up button.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Up
  • Death
  • Die

• I can easily come up with ten really iconic stories/trade paperbacks for Superman, Batman, others... name me ten equally big, iconic Wonder Woman stories. Much harder. That ain't the character's fault, that isn't sexism, that's just not servicing the character.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Up
  • Character
  • Woman

• I remember taking my demo to every dance person in London. People were like, 'We don't know what this is!' The first people to champion me were a club in Manchester.

  

  M.I.A.
  • People
  • Remember
  • Dance

• Faithful to the word given and the idea had. All else is up to God!

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Up
  • God

• I am a graphic artist heart and soul, though I find the term 'artist' rather embarrassing.

  

  M. C. Escher
  • Heart
  • Soul

• I actually envy actors who have a persona: 'This is the way I am. This is the part I play.' And do it over and over and over. To me, that's a lot easier than trying to reinvent yourself every six months.

  

  John C. Reilly
  • Trying
  • Envy

• We are fools to depend upon the society of our fellow-men. Wretched as we are, powerless as we are, they will not aid us; we shall die alone.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Society
  • Fools
  • Aid

• I see myself at 7:30 in the morning and it's not too pretty.

  

  Rod Stewart
  • Pretty
  • Morning

• ON FRIDAY, 25 August, Roosevelt shocked most of his countrymen by dropping to the floor of Long Island Sound in one of the Navy’s six new submarines, appropriately named the Plunger. He remained beneath the surface (lashed with heavy rain) long enough to watch fish swim past his window. Then, taking the controls, he essayed a few movements himself, including one which brought the ship to the surface rear end up.

  

  Edmund Morris
  • Controls
  • Roosevelt
  • Countrymen

• Johnny Cash was like Abraham Lincoln to me.

  

  John Prine
  • Like

• The more you stand in the limelight, the more scarred you will become and the more you will love the limelight.

  

  Preston Sturges