Pierce Brosnan Quotes

The Danes and the Irish have a great simpatico, that's for sure.

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• We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • God
  • High
  • Dark

• We were five kids at home, and my mother and grandmother ensured that we all had a very grounded upbringing in Madras. Even in school, I never used to tell anyone that my dad was an actor.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • School
  • Home
  • Kids

• I simply can't do one-word message replies: Yes. Ok. No. Sure. Cool. None of these are options for me. I must write something extra. Something personal. I put kisses and emoticons. Emoticons, by the way, are my very best friends. They have removed all the pressure of thinking up something personal to say.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Friends

• Because cheating is easier when we can justify our behavior, people often cheat in small amounts: We can come up with an excuse for stealing Post-It notes, but it is much more difficult to come up with an excuse for taking $10,000 from petty cash.

  

  Dan Ariely
  • People
  • Up
  • Small

• I do feel that the boys are getting left out. Girls will read boys' books, but boys won't read girls' books. If you're writing for a girl, you've got most of the audience on your side anyway.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Writing
  • Girl
  • You

• I'm quite good at not writing.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Quite

• 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.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Great
  • Sun
  • Makeup

• For me, religious festivals and celebrations have become an important way to teach my children about how we can transform living with diversity from the superficial 'I eat ethnic food', to something dignified, mutually respectful and worthwhile.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Important
  • Children
  • Food

• Unfortunately, we can never truly know if we're making the right decision. What we do know is that wherever we are, that's where the Light wants us to be. It's the best place for us to be now. And as long as we don't try to control the situation, then we won't end up in the place we shouldn't be.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Up
  • Long
  • Light

• Further, there are things of which the mind understands one part, but remains ignorant of the other; and when man is able to comprehend certain things, it does not follow that he must be able to comprehend everything.

  

  Maimonides
  • Mind
  • Man
  • Ignorant

• I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.

  

  Laila Ali
  • People
  • Father
  • Compassion

• Every day, nay every moment, try to do some good deed.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Good
  • Day
  • Moment

• Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Soul
  • House
  • Body

• I told her I wanted a plastic surgeon to sew me up, and I wanted her to freeze my ovaries, so I could harvest the eggs and have a biological child through a surrogate.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Child
  • Wanted
  • Surgeon

• I'm never, like I say, I'm never happy, I'm never satisfied, it's never good enough.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Enough

• I hope that anyone I worked with wouldn't exploit our relationship.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Hope
  • Relationship
  • Our

• Too many people hold a very narrow view of what motivates us. They believe that the only way to get us moving is with the jab of a stick or the promise of a carrot. But if you look at over 50 years of research on motivation, or simply scrutinize your own behavior, it's pretty clear human beings are more complicated than that.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Believe
  • Pretty

• I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.

  

  Yann Martel
  • World
  • Art
  • Think

• Working with Mrs. Clarke at The Gryphon School is when I really began to think of acting as a potential career.

  

  Ben Hardy
  • School
  • Career

• For me, taking photographs is such a tortured process. I'm always feeling like I'm not getting enough: I'm in the wrong place, the light isn't good, the subject's not comfortable.

  

  Lynsey Addario
  • Good
  • Feeling
  • Light

• Before my mother's diagnosis with Alzheimer's, I had heard of the disease, but hadn't known anyone who had suffered from it.

  

  Kevin Whately
  • Mother

• I usually have an idea of how I want a song to sound, but I don't always know how to get there.

  

  Lucinda Williams
  • Song

• The money-grubber has been floating with the great current of society, while the poor man has been swimming against it.

  

  Edward Carpenter
  • Great
  • Money
  • Society

• The Danes and the Irish have a great simpatico, that's for sure.

  

  Pierce Brosnan
  • Great
  • Irish