Ian Mckellen Quotes

I've often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying, 'This is fiction.'

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• Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Really
  • Immortality
  • Guess

• So many people witness atrocities and can't take their eyes away from them, but that doesn't mean they're good.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • People
  • Good
  • Eyes

• I have a bronze statue of myself, naked. I have these really big curls and water comes out of every curl. It's hot.

  

  Macy Gray
  • Water
  • Myself
  • Naked

• I'm a New Yorker. My background is in theater, so staying here, I have the opportunity to get back to that, which I would love to do.

  

  Valorie Curry
  • Love
  • Opportunity
  • New

• He had a lot of talent, but didn't have much dedication, wasn't organized, didn't know how to learn, didn't know how to comprehend what he was doing, didn't try to learn how to get better.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Learn
  • Talent
  • Dedication

• We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it. And to take good care of it, we have to know it. And to know it and to be willing to take care of it, we have to love it.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • World
  • Good
  • Know

• Do we really want Washington administrators coming between us and our doctors?

  

  Foster Friess
  • Want
  • Doctors
  • Washington

• Urfa chillies are a Turkish variety that are mild on heat but big on aroma. They're sweet, smoky, a lovely dark red, and go with just about anything.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Dark
  • Red
  • Sweet

• I always wanted to act. I guess I've always been a bit of a drama queen.

  

  Samantha Isler
  • Drama
  • Act
  • Queen

• We are not opposed to public transportation. We are opposed to wasteful boondoggles.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Public
  • Transportation

• What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Beginning
  • End
  • Start

• On paper I would be a rather bold individual in our culture.

  

  Wade Davis
  • Culture
  • Bold
  • Paper

• Sometimes you lose sight of what's going on around you.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Sometimes
  • Lose
  • Sight

• What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Find
  • Seek
  • U.S.

• Talking to other people who make low-budget movies, everyone kind of has the same struggle.

  

  Zoe Cassavetes
  • People
  • Struggle
  • Movies

• Bands develop their own weird ways of doing things.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Weird
  • Doing
  • Ways

• All through my life, I was hated on. When I was in middle school, they used to write in my rhyme book, 'You suck' or 'This sucks.'

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Life
  • School
  • Book

• I was completely surrounded by religion from a young time. I was taught by my father. I engaged in discussions with him and many of these scholars who visited and came around the dining table, the lunch table, and attended many lectures with my dad. And so I learned the apprentice way.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Time
  • Father
  • Dad

• You have to fit in sometimes to make people comfortable to listen to you.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Listen

• My mom is proud of me. But she might not be too happy about the hours I keep or how little I eat. I wake up so late that it would be inappropriate to have breakfast. At most, I will have a snack in the day and dinner. I realize that it's not the healthiest way to live, but it's all I really have time for.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • Up
  • Time
  • Live

• It saddens me that in many churches today, you hardly hear the name of Jesus being mentioned. Instead, you hear psychology being taught. You hear motivational teachings. You hear 'doing, doing, doing', 'vision, vision, vision' or 'calling, calling, calling'. You hear very little of Jesus Christ and His finished work being taught. Is this what Christianity is about? Your doing, your calling and your vision?

  

  Joseph Prince
  • Jesus
  • Vision
  • Teaching

• I detest that saying 'Everything happens for a reason'; it's nonsense.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • Reason
  • Saying
  • Nonsense

• People are getting patents on things that are too general.

  

  Jerry Yang
  • People

• I've often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying, 'This is fiction.'

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Thought
  • Bible
  • Saying