A. Bartlett Giamatti Quotes

It is not enough to offer a smorgasbord of courses. We must insure that students are not just eating at one end of the table.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

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• That men should live honestly, quietly, and comfortably together, it is needful that they should live under a sense of God's will, and in awe of the divine power, hoping to please God, and fearing to offend Him, by their behaviour respectively.

  

  Isaac Barrow
  • God
  • Men
  • Live

• We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Change
  • Chance
  • Changes

• I became conflicted in my late teens.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Late
  • Became
  • Late Teens

• I was always the smallest role in community theater and school plays. I always had two lines - I was the kid that came on stage and said one thing and then left, and that was my part for the play.

  

  Haley Lu Richardson
  • School
  • Community
  • Play

• The second I walk onto the set and I know that there's a camera and I know that there's a David Twohy behind that camera, there is zero pressure. There is just me jumping into a pool called 'Riddick.' It's the most free I am. It's like channeling something.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Pressure
  • Walk
  • Camera

• God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Good
  • God
  • Done

• When meeting difficult situations, one should dash forward bravely and with joy.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • Joy
  • Forward
  • Meeting

• I may have the 'Twilight: Breaking Dawn' soundtrack, which I've been told is embarrassing, but come on, there are some good songs on there.

  

  Floriana Lima
  • Good
  • May
  • Twilight

• There are the horror fans that love the 'Evil Dead' because of the humor, but I'm sure it's not all of them. Not all horror fans love 'Evil Dead' because of the humor, at least not me.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Evil
  • Fans
  • Humor

• I am a strong woman with or without this other person, with or without this job, and with or without these tight pants.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Job
  • Strong
  • Woman

• I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Believe
  • Reality
  • I Believe

• Fake is as old as the Eden tree.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Tree
  • Old
  • Fake

• I was just an animal lover. Everything that the Sam Simon Foundation does is supposed to help dogs and people - that's our mission.

  

  Sam Simon
  • People
  • Help
  • Animal

• I still get weepy when I see a father being nice to his child. It so affects me.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Father
  • Me
  • Nice

• I want to show audiences I can act.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Want
  • Act
  • I Can

• The achievements of willpower are almost beyond computation. Scarcely anything seems impossible to the man who can will strongly enough and long enough.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Long
  • Man
  • Impossible

• To make the record, we now push a pencil or tap a typewriter. Then comes the process of digestion and correction, followed by an intricate process of typesetting, printing, and distribution. To consider the first stage of the procedure, will the author of the future cease writing by hand or typewriter and talk directly to the record?

  

  Vannevar Bush
  • Writing
  • Future
  • Hand

• Judaism’s campaign to make divinity invisible has never fully succeeded. Images are always eluding moral control, creating the brilliant western art tradition. Idolatry is fascism of the eye. The western eye will be served, with or without the consent of conscience.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Art
  • Control
  • Moral

• Those who hold the public trust must adhere to the highest ethical standards there are. The job requires it, and the public must demand it.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • Job
  • Trust

• Away with false fashion, so calm and so chill, Where pleasure itself cannot please; Away with cold breeding, that faithlessly still Affects to be quite at its ease; For the deepest in feeling is highest in rank, The freest is first of the band, Nature's own Nobleman, friendly and frank,Is a man with his heart in his hand!

  

  Martin Farquhar Tupper
  • Heart
  • Nature
  • Feeling

• Illusions are like umbrellas - you no sooner get them than you lose them, and the loss always leaves a little painful wound.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham

• There were at least 500-600 proposals after our initial call to artists in early January. We approved a little less than half of them, but not all were made.

  

  Eric Friedman Tremonti
  • Artists
  • Proposals
  • Approved

• It is not enough to offer a smorgasbord of courses. We must insure that students are not just eating at one end of the table.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti