Martin Scorsese Quotes

I've seen many, many movies over the years, and there are only a few that suddenly inspire you so much that you want to continue to make films.

Martin Scorsese

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• I think Twitter is the future of communications and Square will be the payment network.

  

  Jack Dorsey
  • Think
  • Future
  • Twitter

• I would spend hours absorbing every intonation, every inflection - how the singer would convey a sentiment and how it would sound coming out of their head. All of those things I very carefully watched and absorbed, and so I guess I was studying my whole life, although not in any sort of conventional way.

  

  Kat Edmonson
  • Life
  • Sound
  • Studying

• Her name was called Lady Helena Herring and her age was 25 and she mated well with the earl.

  

  Daisy Ashford
  • She
  • Age
  • Name

• Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • People
  • Advice
  • Yourself

• I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.

  

  Sam Neill
  • Hate
  • Movies
  • Down

• The State Marriage Defense Act helps safeguard the ability of states to preserve traditional marriage for their citizens.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Marriage
  • Ability
  • Defense

• Abe Ribicoff believes in that American dream. I believe it from the bottom of my heart, and your sons and daughters, too, can have the American dream come true.

  

  Abraham A. Ribicoff
  • Believe
  • Heart
  • American

• There must be a thread in everything I choose to take on, and I can't say it's a calculated thread, but I think you end up doing the work that's resonating with you.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Up
  • Work
  • Think

• Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Really
  • Scene
  • Ecstasy

• I always wanted to know, and I always used to daydream, about what it would be like to stand on a really big stage and sing songs for a lot of people, songs that I had written... Daydreaming was kind of my No. 1 thing when I was little, because I didn't have much of a social life going on.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Life
  • Stand

• The truth needs so little rehearsal.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Truth
  • Needs
  • Rehearsal

• I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Hope
  • Church
  • Taken

• We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.

  

  B. B. King
  • Yourself
  • Doing
  • Be Yourself

• A gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage, married immediately after his wife died: Johnson said, it was the triumph of hope over experience.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Experience
  • Hope
  • Wife

• ... the Eternal turned his attention to the three shades who stood humbly and yet hopefully before him. The quick, with so short a time to live, when they talk of themselves, talk too much; but the dead, with eternity before them, are so verbose that only angels could listen to them with civility.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Time
  • Live
  • Attention

• From a distance he had the bland aspect of a philanthropist.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Distance

• Che chi si truova in degno laccio preso,Se ben di sé vede sua donna schiva,Se in tutto aversa al suo desire acceso;Se bene Amor d'ogni mercede il priva,Poscia che 'l tempo e la fatica ha speso;Pur ch'altamente abbia locato il core,Pianger non de', se ben languisce e muore.

  

  Ludovico Ariosto
  • Desire

• I think I'm the person who keeps friends from hitting 'send.' I've definitely helped people go through emails before sending them. I'm a good proofreader.

  

  Lindsay Mendez
  • People
  • Good
  • Friends

• I want to have a good time myself. I don't want to dread going to work no matter what the gig is. I think, selfishly, I will make sure that I have a good time; how about that?

  

  Tom Hanks
  • Good Time

• Crisis for others is a source of despair. For me, it's an opportunity to bring reform.

  

  Ashraf Ghani
  • Despair
  • Crisis
  • Reform

• I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Together
  • Age
  • Crazy

• Everything we can think of that should have a processor, and they'll all be connected. People talk about fridges re-ordering when you run out of milk, but it's going to be much bigger than that. The transition to this world will require a huge number of applications to be developed, and that's a huge opportunity for Infosys.

  

  Kris Gopalakrishnan
  • People
  • World
  • Opportunity

• I don't think I'd want to concentrate on just acting because I love music, and things are going really well, so I think I will always continue to make music.

  

  Ashley Thomas
  • Music

• I've seen many, many movies over the years, and there are only a few that suddenly inspire you so much that you want to continue to make films.

  

  Martin Scorsese