Philip Seymour Hoffman Quotes
It's really hard to watch things and then not think about anything afterwards.Philip Seymour Hoffman
Quotes to Explore
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Most modern science fiction went to school on 'Dune.' Even 'Harry Potter' with its 'boy protagonist who has not yet grown into his destiny' shares a common theme. When I read it for the first time, I felt like I had learned another language, mastered a new culture, adopted a new religion.
Gary Ross -
Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.
Florence Nightingale -
Throughout the day, I frequently use my iPhone to check 'Deadline Hollywood' and my Twitter feed, as well as the 'Daily Beast,' the 'New York Times,' 'Metsblog,' and 'Thejetsblog.'
R. J. Cutler -
When hypocrisy is a character trait, it also affects one's thinking, because it consists in the negation of all the aspects of reality that one finds disagreeable, irrational or repugnant.
Octavio Paz -
Revision has its own peculiar pleasures and its own peculiar frustrations. The ground rules are already established; the characters already exist. You don't have to bring the characters to life, but you do have to make them more convincing.
Vikram Seth -
The thing about games is, players often say they don't care about story, but then if you took the story out, what would their reaction be? If no one cared about story, we'd all still be playing Pac-Man. There's nothing wrong with Pac-Man, but the point is, there's a genre of games in which you want to become part of that world.
Karen Traviss
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Just as the lunar landings inspired many young people to consider careers in space and related fields, the solution of the challenging instrumentation problems presented in space science can inspire young people to push beyond the current state of the art.
Nancy Roman -
Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.
Walter Bagehot -
My mother always told me not to handle a buffalo by its tail, but always catch it by its horns. And I have used that lesson in everything in my life, including the Railways.
Lalu Prasad Yadav -
Once you open up the Pandora's box of race and gender... you're never done.
Kara Walker -
Land was what they wanted, as if the mere ownership of dirt could turn a peasant into a squire.
Orson Scott Card -
She look'd down to blush, and she look'd up to sigh, With a smile on her lips, and a tear in her eye.
Walter Scott
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Marche Funèbre composée pour les Funérailles d'un grand homme sourd.
Alphonse Allais -
The colour of my soul is iron-grey and sad bats wheel about the steeple of my dreams.
Claude Debussy -
For precocity some great price is always demanded sooner or later in life.
Margaret Fuller -
I resolved from the beginning of my quest that I would not be misled by sentiment and desire into beliefs for which there was no good evidence.
Bertrand Russell -
The most superficial fact regarding the Discourses, the fact that the number of its chapters equals the number of books of Livy's History, compelled us to start a chain of tentative reasoning which brings us suddenly face to face with the only New Testament quotation that ever appears in Machiavelli's two books and with an enormous blasphemy.
Leo Strauss -
Arabs may have the oil, but we have the matches.
Ariel Sharon
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In many previously classified documents relating to activities at the base, the words 'Area 51' are conveniently blacked out. There's always a euphemism for it - like 'the test facility' or 'the base' - but never 'Area 51.'
Annie Jacobsen -
Couples without kids have each other, their friends, families, and Siri to talk to. It's not like they're quarantining themselves in an underground bunker, never to take a romantic stroll on the beach or attend a Morrissey concert ever again. They're just using birth control.
Jen Kirkman -
I'm seeing a guy now who has nothing to do with films. It's so much nicer with somebody who isn't an actor. Two crazy people in one house would be too much. It's better there's one crazy person, and one nice person who looks after that crazy person.
Kerry Condon -
My generation has a hard time being genuine and enthusiastic. There's a lot of irony in our culture.
Christopher McCulloch -
What sweetens the deal for me is that I get to develop an alien species from the ground up. I'm playing Saru, a Kelpian, and this race has never been seen before in any 'Star Trek' series.
Doug Jones -
It's really hard to watch things and then not think about anything afterwards.
Philip Seymour Hoffman