Dominic Monaghan Quotes

I get involved with projects based on three parameters - the script, the actors involved and the director.

Dominic Monaghan

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• My mum wouldn't have had any time for fantasy stuff; she's more practical.

  

  Kate Thompson
  • Time
  • Stuff
  • Fantasy

• Boating on the lake is one of my favorite summer activities.

  

  Carl Hagelin
  • Summer
  • Favorite
  • Lake

• It's such an overused phrase: 'to be part of the conversation.' But it's true. It is nice to be part of the conversation - just be sure they are talking about you in the right way.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • True
  • Nice
  • Conversation

• If you love a young writer, maybe the best thing you can do is give them a little bit of space.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Space
  • Best
  • Thing

• Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Life
  • Learning
  • Joy

• The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Business
  • Earth
  • Rights

• In market research I did at Microsoft Corp. in the early 1990s, I estimated that the 'Wall Street Journal' took in about 75 cents per copy from subscribers, $1.25 at the newsstand and a whopping $5 per copy from ads. The ad revenue let them run a far bigger newsroom than subscribers were paying for.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Wall
  • Research
  • Street

• Suburbia is all about private ownership and not having to share, and it leads to a paranoid, defensive mindset. I know this, having grown up in Essex.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • Up
  • Know
  • Mindset

• It's important that we start conversations about changing the culture of sexual harassment and discrimination in politics, state capitols, and our larger communities with an acknowledgment of the courage of so many women who have chosen to speak up and speak out.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Up
  • Important
  • Women

• The reason I was in most of the movies I've done is that they paid for me to be in the theater.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Reason
  • Movies
  • Theater

• Without some common baseline of facts, without a willingness to admit new information, and concede that your opponent might be making a fair point, and that science and reason matter - then we're going to keep talking past each other, and we'll make common ground and compromise impossible.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Science
  • Past

• His conversation does not show the minute-hand, but he strikes the hour very correctly.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Hand

• Upon the bank, she stood In the cool Of spent emotions. She felt, among the leaves, The dew Of old devotions.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • She
  • Cool

• The sea returns upon the men, The fields entrap the children, brick Is a weed and all the flies are caught, Wingless and withered, but living alive. The discord merely magnified. Deeper within the belly's dark Of time, time grows upon the rock.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Time
  • Men
  • Children

• Don't tell me I haven't been good to you.Don't tell me I have never been there for you.Don't tell me whyNothing is good enough.

  

  Sarah McLachlan
  • Good

• I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: 'No good in a bed, but fine against a wall'.

  

  Eleanor Roosevelt
  • Good
  • Wall
  • Rose

• I have forgotten much, but still rememberThe poinsiana's red, blood-red in warm December.

  

  Claude McKay
  • Red
  • December

• I, for one, will not have the Vietcong insulted by any comparison to the forces of Zarqawi, the Fedayeen Saddam, and the criminal underworld now arrayed against us. These depraved elements are the Iraqi Khmer Rouge.

  

  Christopher Hitchens

• Unfortunately, philosophers of science usually regard scientific realism and scientific anti-realism as monistic doctrines. The assumption is that there is one goal of all scientific inference - finding propositions that are true, or finding propositions that are predictively accurate. In fact, there are multiple goals. Sometimes realism is the right interpretation of a scientific problem, while at other times instrumentalism is.

  

  Elliott Sober
  • Science
  • Problem
  • Goal

• I'm very active, wild woman.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Woman
  • Active
  • WIld

• Pakistan never valued Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan saab until English songwriter Peter Gabriel started collaborating with him. After that, the country suddenly realised that they have an amazing talent. This is the story of a lot of artistes there.

  

  Adnan Sami
  • Country
  • Amazing
  • English

• For me, family always comes first; I would do anything to protect them.

  

  Mark Wahlberg
  • Family

• We actually have a real community of people doing useful things.

  

  Mitchell Baker
  • People
  • Community
  • Things

• I get involved with projects based on three parameters - the script, the actors involved and the director.

  

  Dominic Monaghan