James Branch Cabell Quotes
Nothing … nothing in the universe, is of any importance, or is authentic to any serious sense, except the illusions of romance. For man alone of animals plays the ape to his dreams. These axioms - poor, deaf and blinded spendthrift! - are none the less valuable for being quoted.James Branch Cabell
Quotes to Explore
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The war we have to wage today has only one goal and that is to make the world safe for diversity.
U Thant -
Good cinema is what we can believe, and bad cinema is what we can't believe.
Abbas Kiarostami -
I don't choose to make movies as small as the movies I've made. The combined budget of my two films is far under $5 million, but it's just by necessity that it ends up being that way.
Barry Jenkins -
Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man.
Jacob Bronowski -
If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.
Hannah More -
Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
Rabindranath Tagore
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I don't know how to ground myself without the other actor present.
Garry Shandling -
You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend, I sit down every day and I work when I'm not delivering lambs on the farm.
Barbara Kingsolver -
I'm not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I'm a female athlete personality.
Gabrielle Reece -
You don't have to paint your walls lime green just to try to have your home feel decorated. If you're a classic dresser or preppy dresser or a modern dresser, you wear a lot of black - whatever it is - your home should reflect that as well.
Nate Berkus -
If you're equally good as this Latin player, guess who's going to get sent home? I know a lot of players that are home now can outplay a lot of these guys.
Gary Sheffield -
For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you.
Uma Thurman
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Together, we can build a stronger, more innovative New Hampshire, where our businesses can grow, flourish, and create good jobs for our people.
Maggie Hassan -
I'm a vulnerable, sensitive person. I overthink everything.
Sam Smith -
Take your mind off the problems for a moment, and focus on the positive possibilities. Consider how very much you are able to do.
Ralph Marston -
I have been struck by the pervasive frequency of pompously patriotic ads for the defense industry, usually accompanied by deferential salutations to our men and women who are heroically sacrificing their lives in our defense. Do we really need all of that for our security?
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
As a model, I am at the mercy of everybody else. It's much more of a situation where I go to work, put the clothes on, get in front of the camera, and then go home. But in that process, I never really have control over any of it.
Karen Elson -
I consider anybody who has been able to make a living in this business [movie business] without having to do something else for a living for any period of time let alone 43 years would be a miracle.
Richard Masur
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It's not easy being the world's policeman. No one thanks you for it.
Philip Kerr -
I've had a lot of writers, in particular, who said they got into writing because of the 'Van Dyke Show.' They said it looked like fun.
Dick Van Dyke -
'The September Issue' is really a film about Anna Wintour's relationship with long time 'Vogue' Creative Director Grace Coddington. The two of them have been working together for two decades, and the extraordinary symbiosis between them has left an indelible mark on the fashion industry.
R. J. Cutler -
I suffer snakes to be killed in the ashram when it is impossible to catch them and put them out of harm's way.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Nothing … nothing in the universe, is of any importance, or is authentic to any serious sense, except the illusions of romance. For man alone of animals plays the ape to his dreams. These axioms - poor, deaf and blinded spendthrift! - are none the less valuable for being quoted.
James Branch Cabell