Douglas Sirk Quotes

If I can say one thing for my pictures, it is a certain craftsmanship. A thought which has gone into every angle. There is nothing there without an optical reason.

Douglas Sirk

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• I liked 'Scream of the Banshee' because it was a real challenge. I thought, 'How am I going to pull off this character?' But, I also thought, 'Oh, man, I'm going to go for it.' He's got all the defects of character that an actor loves to play. So, I had a really great time.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Time
  • Great
  • Real

• I learned that if you're going to be a troublemaker, you don't want a ton of witnesses, because there's inevitable fallout from living like you're in 'Lord of the Flies.'

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Want
  • You
  • Living

• I believe in pulling together to make the country better right rather than pulling, tearing it apart for partisan reasons. I think the country comes first.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Together

• Life is just so much fun and so filled with humor.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Humor

• I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Writing
  • Day
  • Everyday

• I'm of the Samuel Goldwyn school of writing: If you need to send a message, call Western Union. Any messages people take away from my books are the ones they see in them.

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • People
  • Writing
  • School

• The two things that I require for anyone who's around me: you need to love food, and you need to be able to laugh.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Food
  • Things
  • Need

• In terms of work, obviously acting is such a job that is very in the flesh kind of thing. It's your work, but it's your life, in a way. You can get so mixed up.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Life
  • Up
  • Work

• As you get older, you get more accepting - although, if you asked me whose body I would want, I would say Jess Ennis's at the Olympics.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Want
  • Me
  • Body

• Tell me if the lovers are losers... tell me if any get more than the lovers.

  

  Carl Sandburg

• Enemies of Syria are the enemies of the people and the enemies of God. And the enemies of God will go to hell.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • People
  • God

• We were exploring this inner realm of consciousness that we had been theorizing about all these years and suddenly we were traveling in and through and around it.

  

  Ram Dass

• Europe in its infinite wisdom decided to deal with this bankruptcy by loading the largest loan in human history on the weakest of shoulders … What we’ve been having ever since is a kind of fiscal waterboarding that has turned this nation into a debt colony.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • History
  • Wisdom

• I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled; That every Hyacinth the Garden wears Dropt in her Lap from some once lovely Head.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Red
  • Garden
  • Rose

• If you act like a servant, you will die like a dog.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Die
  • Dog

• She shrugged her shoulders slightly. 'What can one do?' 'You are a philosopher, Mademoiselle.'

  

  Agatha Christie
  • She

• I've been tryin' to get down to the Heart of the Matter Because the flesh will get weak And the ashes will scatter So I'm thinkin' about forgiveness Forgiveness Even if you don't love me anymore.

  

  Don Henley The Eagles
  • Heart
  • Forgiveness

• One can never do anything so beautiful as nature.

  

  Auguste Rodin
  • Nature
  • Beautiful

• It is necessary that every thing which is harmonized, should be generated from that which is void of harmony, and that which is void of harmony from that which is harmonized. ...But there is no difference, whether this is asserted of harmony, or of order, or composition... the same reason will apply to all of these.

  

  Aristotle
  • Reason
  • Difference
  • Order

• You are a republic of voices tonight. Unfortunately, that republic is Italy.

  

  Jay McInerney

• Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see its light shining on you.

  

  Antoni Zygmund
  • Light
  • Electricity

• Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it's hard. When you do that you are passing the test. And God promises you your marked moments are on their way.

  

  Joel Osteen
  • Good
  • God
  • Moments

• I'm like a chameleon. I can kind of change and get my game going to whatever the situation is. If I play well, which I don't think I've even reached yet at all in this tournament, it's really hard for anyone on the women's tour to beat me.

  

  Serena Williams
  • Kind
  • Play
  • Games

• If I can say one thing for my pictures, it is a certain craftsmanship. A thought which has gone into every angle. There is nothing there without an optical reason.

  

  Douglas Sirk