Jacqueline de Ribes Quotes
The theory in great families was 'why work if you don't have to.' Being a public figure was reserved for movie stars.
Quotes to Explore
-
When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
-
I've never left them to go do a film. No, we all go together. I could never leave them. My kids are my whole world.
-
Iowa has sent notice that the Republican nominee for the next president of the United States will not be chosen by the media. Will not be chosen by the Washington establishment. Will not be chosen by the lobbyists. But will be chosen by the most incredible powerful force, where all sovereignty resides in our nation by we the people.
-
Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.
-
I have a general sense of mission, and I intuitively know when something is influencing that mission. I think this is what I'm supposed to be doing. Doors keep opening. In the end, it's the best use of my skills. I've finally consented to the idea that I'm an artist.
-
I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it.
-
Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
-
Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
-
If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.
-
Roadrunner wanted to make Born in the Flood the next Nickelback, but I didn't want to be that. I didn't want to be a huge rock star playing songs I didn't like. I didn't want to be stuck playing 'Anthem,' the song everybody liked but I didn't want to put on the record, for the next five years.
-
I chose the most explosive dress I could find. I put a ton of makeup on and some great round earrings. I looked like Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun.
-
No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
-
I like to leave a film open-ended, with a lingering feeling. I'll not do sequels of any of my films till I have subjects to explore.
-
A man is as alive as he can communicate.
-
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
-
I love to rock 'n roll. But my finest suit, of all the things I do, is as a songwriter.
-
Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.
-
I failed chemistry. I almost failed algebra.
-
Block Watch, Crime Watch, we have hundreds of thousands of Americans, every day and night, risking their lives, going out for no pay as volunteers, protecting Americans like all of you and not asking anything in return. And the other day I'm speaking in a high school in New Jersey and the youngsters go, oh, you're just like Zimmerman.
-
Once established with Great Britain, it would not be difficult, with moderation and prudence, to establish permanent peace with the rest of the world, when our most sanguine hopes of prosperity may be realized.
-
Why, you might read two sonnets, ere they reachTo where the hurrying freshnesses aye preachA natural sermon o’er their pebbly beds;Where swarms of minnows show their little heads,Staying their wavy bodies ’gainst the streams,To taste the luxury of sunny beamsTemper’d with coolness.
-
People who are great thinkers, in science or in art, people who are great performers, have to have that kind of capacity. Without that kind of capacity, it's extremely difficult to manage a high level of performance because you're going to get a lot of extraneous material chipping away at the finery of your thinking or the finery of your motor execution.
-
I get to go to all these beautiful places, so it's nice being able to take pictures of it.
-
The theory in great families was 'why work if you don't have to.' Being a public figure was reserved for movie stars.
