Preston Sturges Quotes

In 'Remember the Night,' love reformed her and corrupted him, which gave us the finely balanced moral that one man's meat is another man's poison.

Preston Sturges

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• I've ended up on some website list or some other list for super right-wing people. They've been tweeting some pretty rude stuff at me, so I think there's a sect of America out there that doesn't like certain opinions and can really take their claws out when they don't like what you're saying.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
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  • Up
  • America

• A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Book
  • Man
  • Talent

• Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • World
  • Experience
  • Ideas

• We had particular policies in this country that resulted in the larger share of poverty that we have in African-American communities.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Country
  • American
  • Poverty

• We are not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and the Michael Jacksons of this world. The rich and the famous don't participate in this.

  

  Panayiotis Zavos
  • World
  • Famous
  • Rich

• I've taken Saturdays to be the day I pull back completely. I do things that are more creative, and I've actually found that helps me when I get back into work to be more thoughtful, and I truly believe that feeding your creative soul is really important to being more analytical.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Important

• Communicating with teenage girls is easy unless you're an adult, and then it's like having someone take a pair of pliers and, one-by-one, yank off your fingernails through your ears.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • You
  • Easy
  • Ears

• I've only dressed in drag three or four times.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Times
  • Three
  • Dressed

• Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.

  

  Feist
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• Taking B12 is the price of getting to be vegan, the way wearing a helmet is the price of getting to ride a motorcycle and giving up alcohol for nine months is the price of getting to have a baby.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Baby

• I have been the last space marine between earth and an alien invasion. I really just don't need to go there anymore.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Earth
  • Space
  • Alien

• I think it's all about making records when you're inspired to make them.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Think
  • You
  • Inspired

• There is no job description for the first lady and she's only there because her husband got elected president.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • She
  • Job
  • Husband

• California is an easy place to be an Asian woman engineer.

  

  Yi So-Yeon
  • Woman
  • Easy
  • California

• The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Fear
  • Hell
  • Too Much

• A man with a million dollars can be as happy nowadays as though he were rich.

  

  Ward McAllister
  • Happy
  • Man
  • Rich

• American actresses have more problems than I do; I'm lucky to be able to play what I want for a smaller audience, because I have my own country to do that in.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Country
  • American
  • Problems

• Historians tell us that a gentleman named John Ball once captured eight British Amateur titles.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Gentleman
  • Tell
  • Once

• We've become so used to the concept as a measuring and sorting tool, that it and its correlates - below-average, above-average - are everyday speech. We don't even question the language, although the challenges we face require a different mindset.

  

  L. Todd Rose
  • Different
  • Question
  • Everyday

• The people in general ought to have regard to the moral character of those whom they invest with authority either in the legislative, executive, or judicial branches.

  

  John Witherspoon
  • People
  • Character
  • Moral

• When the rhythm and night ride, no heart can hide.

  

  Steve Winwood Blind Faith
  • Heart
  • Night
  • Poetry

• I’m learning, Maia thought. They keep making mistakes and I keep getting stronger.At this rate, someday I may actually gain control over my life.

  

  David Brin
  • Life
  • May
  • Control

• As long as the rent's getting paid, you don't think about getting out of the game.

  

  John Cho
  • Long
  • Game

• In 'Remember the Night,' love reformed her and corrupted him, which gave us the finely balanced moral that one man's meat is another man's poison.

  

  Preston Sturges
  • Remember
  • Night
  • Moral