Donald Pleasence Quotes

What can I tell you about things like Circus of Horrors except that I get killed by the bear?

Donald Pleasence

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• Nothing exists except through language.

  

  Hans-Georg Gadamer
  • Language
  • Nothing
  • Through

• When you're not involved, other people's unhappiness seems to be about the funniest damn thing on earth because you think you can solve it, that you are God, that you are above this, and that their unhappiness is just such useless toil and agony. If it's you, it ceases to be a comedy.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • People
  • God
  • Earth

• I have a three-year-old and a four-year-old at home, and my mornings are about just dealing with the fact of that. I oddly enjoy it.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Home
  • Enjoy
  • Fact

• What's been happening in Iraq, what young Americans wearing flak jackets, helmets and flight suits have done is... created the circumstances under which Iraq can become our closest ally in that part of the world and still have a representative government. And that's going to be a very good thing considering what's going on in that neighborhood.

  

  Oliver North
  • World
  • Good
  • Done

• Education should be totally secular. I am not telling people not to believe in God, but it should be a personal matter which should be done at home.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • People
  • God
  • Believe

• Sure, if you're a well to do family, you always have the option of sending your children to private schools where teachers spend less time disciplining kids and more time teaching them. However, this option is beyond the reach of most households. And this is what makes school vouchers such a promising solution for lower and middle income families.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Time
  • Children
  • Family

• President Obama stands ready to work with everyone, because that's what the American people expect and deserve - not for the short term political advantages, but the long term health of our country. We don't spend time trying to figure out what's in the minds of Republicans, we try to keep our focus on the American people.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• I just would use any instrument known to man in any combination as long as it describes an emotion.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Long
  • Man
  • Emotion

• It takes a certain amount of courage to tackle very hard problems in science, I now realise. You don't know what the timescale of your work will be: decades or only a few years.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Work
  • Science
  • Courage

• Ideas are cheap and easy, and there are a lot of them.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Ideas
  • Easy
  • Cheap

• One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • People
  • Life
  • Trust

• It's hard to complain when you say, 'We're gonna go to the clip where Helen Hunt and Will Ferrell are on 'Saturday Night Live' making fun of your song.'

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Live
  • Fun
  • Song

• In a deal, you give and take. You compromise. Then you grab the cash and catch the next train out of town.

  

  Irving Paul Lazar
  • You
  • Train
  • Compromise

• Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Nature
  • Understand
  • Mistakes

• Courage is the main quality of leadership, in my opinion, no matter where it is exercised. Usually it implies some risk - especially in new undertakings. Courage to initiate something and to keep it going, pioneering an adventurous spirit to blaze new ways, often, in our land of opportunity.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Opportunity
  • Quality
  • Opinion

• 'Cold?' Reacher said. 'This is nothing.'

  

  Lee Child
  • Cold

• I've always believed in the adage that the secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

  

  Alice Roosevelt Longworth

• Now God comes to thee, not as in the dawning of the day, not as in the bud of the spring, but as the sun at noon to illustrate all shadows, as the sheaves in harvest, to fill all penuries, all occasions invite his mercies, and all times are his seasons.

  

  John Donne
  • God
  • Sun
  • Spring

• You go to Miami, and you might only hear one Tyga song on the radio. You go to L.A., and you might hear six or seven on the radio. There's certain things you do for your city.

  

  Micheal Ray Stevenson
  • Song
  • City

• The relationships I've had with animals are often some of the most profound. That's why you cry when a dog dies in a movie. The connection is so deep and so profound, and it isn't cluttered by humanity.

  

  David Lowery Camper Van Beethoven
  • Why
  • Movie
  • Humanity

• Parties are only bad when a fight breaks out, when men fight over women or vice versa. Someone takes a fall, an ambulance comes, and the police arrive. If you can avoid those things, pretty much all behaviour is acceptable.

  

  Bill Murray
  • Men
  • Women
  • Bad

• My situation is a solemn one: life is offered to me on the condition of eating beefsteaks. But death is better than cannibalism. My will contains directions for my funeral, which will be followed, not by mourning coaches, but by oxen, sheep, flocks of poultry, and a small traveling aquarium of live fish, all wearing white scarves in honor of the man who perished rather than eat his fellow creatures. It will be, without the exception of Noah's Ark, the most remarkable thing of its kind ever seen.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Death
  • Better
  • Cannibalism

• What can I tell you about things like Circus of Horrors except that I get killed by the bear?

  

  Donald Pleasence