Djuna Barnes Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
We go after legacies because we just know that, sooner or later, people will understand what we bring to this culture and bring to the game.
-
I'm not an easygoing guy as a director.
-
I've had three wives. I've had five weddings.
-
I was a campaign widow.
-
People often ask me about what constitutes a nerd-friendly show - like, does it have to have sci-fi elements? But I think it's just a show that satisfies the secret craving we all have to be obsessed with something and not feel at all stupid about it.
-
I like that the 'Underworld' series created a whole other world that's totally different yet familiar to our own.
-
I'm very much in favor of focused responsibility, and so in the main areas that I'm worried about, I try to have a single person who is basically the key person in that area.
-
The Supreme Court's most conservative Justices have presented themselves as great respecters of precedent and opponents of 'judicial activism' - of judges using the Constitution to strike down laws passed by the elected branches of government. If they are true to those principles, they should uphold rent control.
-
I just started taking pictures, and it was - it was an instant love affair. It was just ecstatic.
-
'Transformers' gives people the ability to relax and rest for three hours. That's a substantial amount of time, given how plugged in to our devices we are. People don't give themselves enough time to sit down. They're no longer comfortable with themselves.
-
I come from a mixed family, where my mother is art house cinema and my father is B-movie genre cinema. They're estranged, and I've been trying to bring them together for all of my career to one degree or another.
-
'A man like that thinks that fear can win loyalty.''Plenty of masters with a lash who can testify it works.''Don’t win loyalty, just obedience, and only while the lash is in the room.'
-
What are you gonna do? Kill me? Everybody dies.
-
Ah, well, if they wanted their adultery, what did it matter to me? I hadn’t much room to talk, anyway, with my five-pound prostitutes who did a bunk and the Japanese girls who cost far less and didn’t do a bunk and whatever I was likely to pick up in Colombo.
-
Tara: Sweetie, you wouldn't blow off a class if your head was on fire.
-
I love Eric Clapton and what he did with Cream; 'Spoonful' and 'Crossroads,' those are probably the coolest solos.
-
People who understand basketball definitely appreciate what I bring to the table.
-
Christianity is sustained by the knowledge that the object of man's life on earth is his development as an eternal being. Therefore, none of his expressions of life can be an end in itself, but must serve a higher purpose than the earthly life and happiness of the individual - or even than that of the race.
-
Life means to be living.Problems will always be there. When they arise navigate through them with yoga- don't take a break.
-
I don't want to be like any other boxer. My goal is to be a champion in my own style.
-
'Gone Girl' is as much about the near impossibility of being a good husband as it is about the anguish of being a good wife.
-
Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact.
