Dirk Bogarde Quotes

I don't lose my temper often; about once every twenty years perhaps.

Dirk Bogarde

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• We need to have Turkey respect democracy, human rights, and fundamental freedoms.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Respect
  • Democracy
  • Rights

• Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Listening
  • Acting
  • Behavior

• I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Think
  • Television
  • Visual

• I don't make any distinction between a popular TV series or blockbuster film and doing Shakespeare. They're different, but as long as the material is good and the intention is honourable, it's all the same to me.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Good
  • Different
  • Long

• Women view men like houses. They look for fixer-uppers.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Men
  • Women
  • View

• 'Yogi Bear' changed my life in ways that I can't explain because it's not a full feature on me. 'Yogi Bear' – there's everything before 'Yogi Bear,' and there's everything after 'Yogi Bear.' Like a major car accident, or the birth of Christ.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Life
  • Christ
  • Birth

• Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple too, then you can hear God thinking.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Work
  • God
  • Thinking

• There's always a version of me who is the narrator. And I make myself look better than other people.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • People
  • Better
  • Version

• Obviously I love 'The Godfather' movies. I think they're phenomenal.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Think
  • Movies
  • Phenomenal

• I am recognized a lot for 'Clueless,' but I am recognized a great deal for 'The Princess Bride.' I don't know... maybe everybody who has seen that movie just goes out on the street.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Movie
  • Recognized
  • Clueless

• If ever I was feeling down I would go and write something. It's a form of escape.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Feeling
  • Down
  • Escape

• I am sure it will be mentioned and debated but from my standpoint I know who is in the Hall of Fame. A lot of them don't belong in the Hall of Fame. If someone wants to debate me, check the stats.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Hall of Fame
  • Mentioned
  • Debated

• Families don't make projects for five years, they make projects for generations.

  

  Achille Maramotti
  • Years
  • Generations
  • Five

• All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.

  

  Adam McKay
  • You
  • Director
  • Tone

• The juniper-scented liquor had volatilized his thoughts; he should be thinking that madness caused this man to call himself a king, but was thinking rather that kingship had driven this man mad.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Thinking
  • Thoughts
  • King

• You looked so intense. Whatever you were saying, you seemed to mean it, and it wasn't amusing at all. Started quite a fashion. People keep looking for purpose now. Complicates everything.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • People
  • Fashion
  • Purpose

• There is something inherently wrong, something out of accord with the ideals of representative democracy, when one portion of our citizenship turns its activities to private gain amid defensive war while another is fighting, sacrificing, or dying for national preservation.

  

  Warren G. Harding
  • War
  • Fighting
  • Democracy

• 'Why do we stop for the greystones?''Tradition, my boy,' he said grandly, throwing his arms wide. 'And superstition. They are one and the same, anyway.'

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Why
  • Stop
  • Boy

• In Scotland, land of the omnipotent No.

  

  Alan Boldun
  • Land
  • Scotland
  • Omnipotent

• Regional clustering of specific cancer types triggered some investigations on a potential role of infectious agents in these malignant proliferations.

  

  Harald zur Hausen
  • Cancer
  • Role
  • Potential

• If you want something hard enough, it just gets done.

  

  Billy Strayhorn
  • Done

• If you have to write a fictional adventure to convey a philosophy of evil, the best person is the destroyer of evil himself, Lord Shiva.

  

  Amish Tripathi
  • Evil
  • Adventure

• Once you have learned to fly your plane, it is far less fatiguing to fly than it is to drive a car. You don't have to watch every second for cats, dogs, children, lights, road signs, ladies with baby carriages and citizens who drive out in the middle of the block against the lights. . . . Nobody who has not been up in the sky on a glorious morning can possibly imagine the way a pilot feels in free heaven.

  

  William T. Piper
  • Children
  • Nature
  • Morning

• I don't lose my temper often; about once every twenty years perhaps.

  

  Dirk Bogarde