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

• 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

• 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

• Alcohol-inspired fights … are a reminder of the price we pay for our daily submission at the altars of prudence and order.

  

  Alain de Botton
  • Inspired
  • Daily
  • Alcohol

• It's an intangible thing, this thing we call talent, especially if we're in a position to teach and mentor others.

  

  Alan Zweibel
  • Mentor

• Action for Happiness encourages each of us to live more compassionately and put the happiness of others at the centre of our lives. This is the path to lasting peace and happiness

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Live
  • Peace
  • Action

• If you sit around and wait for things to happen, they're not going to happen the way you want.

  

  Adam Cole
  • Want
  • Things
  • Happen

• Certainly, if we believe in democracy and democratic systems, when Benazir Bhutto failed to pass any legislation, really, at all in her first two years in government during her first term and in fact had a tenure that was marked not only by gross corruption but by human rights abuses, that should have been a time for people to say, "Well, OK, we've given you an opportunity and you haven't bettered the institutions, you haven't strengthened the democratic cause - we may not vote you back."

  

  Fatima Bhutto
  • People
  • Believe
  • Opportunity

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

  

  Dominic Monaghan