Marty Feldman Quotes

The pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write with.

Marty Feldman

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• The growth model China has relied on for the last 30 years - one predicated on low-cost exports to the rest of the world and investment in resource intensive heavy manufacturing - is unlikely to serve it well in the next 30 years.

  

  Gary Locke
  • World
  • Rest
  • Growth

• I wanted to experience New York, to look up and see buildings.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Look

• My original dream was to become a singer-songwriter, so I sent a video of myself playing the piano and singing to all the big agencies.

  

  Park Bo-gum
  • Dream
  • Myself
  • Singing

• 'Freaky Ali' may look like an easy role to others, but it is not easy.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • May
  • Look
  • Easy

• I've heard this before from people: early 20s kind of screws with your head a little bit because you're transitioning into adulthood and actually becoming an adult with responsibilities and paying bills. So all of a sudden, it's like you're responsible now.

  

  Dan Byrd
  • People
  • Kind
  • Early

• You cannot be seeking yourself when you're making money.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Money
  • You
  • Yourself

• If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it 110%, or there's no point in doing it at all, especially if the work takes me away from time with my husband and children.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Time
  • Work
  • Children

• I think that I've had a very strange life.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Life
  • Think
  • Strange

• A lot of what I think I do as a director is try to give everything over to the actor. So I disappear.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Think
  • Try
  • Director

• To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Country
  • Love
  • Lovely

• I love curvy women. Maybe because I'm not. I would love to be a Marilyn Monroe, but I'm very far away from that... So I love very curvy girls.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Women
  • Love
  • Maybe

• The slugs are ascending this steep city staircase that leads up to a huge Catholic church, essentially signifying their slow crawl towards death. The work reminds us of religion, mortality, natural decay, and the slow suffocation of commercialized societies.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
  • Up
  • Work
  • Death

• I do tend to think that I've written a great deal out of my unconscious because half the time I don't know what a given character is going to say next.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Time
  • Great
  • Character

• The tallest building in the world is now in Dubai, the biggest factory in the world is in China, the largest oil refinery is in India, the largest investment fund in the world is in Abu Dhabi, the largest Ferris wheel in the world is in Singapore.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • World
  • Building
  • Investment

• Many of the Central Asians know Russian, and Ted Levin speaks it fluently. I speak Chinese, but Mongolian is completely different, so we had to have translators.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Different
  • Know
  • Speak

• Cultural America is under siege. And as the Soviet experience illustrates, ideology is a weak glue to hold together people otherwise lacking racial, ethnic, and cultural sources of community.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • People
  • Experience
  • America

• The original Jethro Tull was a 19th century English agriculturist who invented a seed drill you see... the first automatic process where by small holes were made in Mother Earth and even smaller seeds were deposited one at a time and neetly covered over as a cat does after having being naughty.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Time
  • Mother
  • Earth

• I'm for decency - period. I'm for anything and everything that bodes love and consideration for my fellow man. But when lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday - cash me out.

  

  Frank Sinatra
  • Service
  • Period
  • Sunday

• People will be surprised at the eagerness with which we went aboutpretending to rouse from its slumber a sexuality which every­thing-our discourses, our customs, our institutions, our regulations, our knowledges-was busy producing in the light of day and broadcasting to noisy accompaniment.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Knowledge
  • Sexuality
  • Regulations

• I want my personal life to be personal.

  

  Jeremy Renner
  • Life

• I would rather be an opportunist and float than go to the bottom with my principles around my neck.

  

  Stanley Baldwin
  • Principles
  • Bottom
  • Necks

• I am aware how difficult is the task to preserve free institutions over so wide a space and so immense a population, but we are blessed with a Constitution admirably calculated to accomplish it. Its elastic power is unequaled, which is to be attributed to its federal character.

  

  John C. Calhoun
  • Character
  • Power
  • Free

• The story of Noah is self-contradictory, uncorroborated by independent historical evidence, and is generally at odds with everything we know about our planet's geology, biology, and species diversity.

  

  Kyle Hill
  • Independent
  • Diversity

• The pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write with.

  

  Marty Feldman