Martin Luther Quotes
Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and satiated.
Quotes to Explore
-
I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.
-
You look in my room and it looks neat enough, but if you dared to look under my bed or in my closet, oh what a mess!
-
At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
-
I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
-
I'm mostly drawn to narratives that are difficult for me to visualize.
-
Don't be afraid to convince yourself that your business is incredible, but don't expect others to be convinced without solid data to back it up. Ideas can be a worth a lot, but they are usually not. Execution is everything.
-
No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.
-
I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark.
-
People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?
-
I know I've got a degree. Why does that mean I have to spend my life with intellectuals? I've got a lifesaving certificate but I don't spend my evenings diving for a rubber brick with my pyjamas on.
-
I would say that I quite consciously rely on my obsessions in all my work, that I deliberately set up an obsessional frame of mind. In a paradoxical way, this leaves one free of the subject of the obsession.
-
I've never been strong with my time-management skills.
-
I do find that it's easier to get Latino-themed movies... but I don't think there's that stigma anymore. I think that what's harder is to be a woman, not to be a Latina.
-
For a kid in London, Hollywood seems like such a mythical place.
-
As a little kid, I watched hip hop get created. So it's an honour for me to represent the Bronx, the motherland of hip hop.
-
The crush of lobbyists on Washington and purchase of the media by corporations has created a big business-run government and a worthless press leaving Americans screwed and ill-informed.
-
If I hadn't have been good enough at football, I'd have been a sports journalist - which is what I do now anyway. Or a cricketer. I might have been a cricketer.
-
Applause is the most powerful thing... people talk about the sound of it, but what I hear is glee.
-
Jack Benny: Where's that big glass star I told you to pack away last Christmas?
-
Whenever I wasn't working, I had my butt back in normal school.
-
This nation can no longer tolerate the autonomous conduct of any single service. A waste of the resources of America in spendthrift defense is an invitation to disaster for America.
-
The 'No.1 IT company' isn't by volume, it's in relation to business customers because those are my customers, not the consumer. Who do they view as their most important partner? That's my definition of the 'No.1 IT company.'
-
Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and satiated.
