Pierce Brosnan Quotes

I ride horses, I love horses, I've owned horses.

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• The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Art
  • Act
  • Possibilities

• Voting in presidential and congressional elections is a national right - and the national government should protect it.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Government
  • Protect
  • Presidential

• On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Great
  • Feeling
  • Satisfaction

• I was running for mayor of Syracuse - the first woman to run for mayor in our city, or in New York, and one of the first in the United States. I was known for my strong conservation plank. In 1969, the term 'conservation' was hardly on the tip of every citizen's tongue.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Strong
  • Running
  • City

• The odds of having films made which star women... Everyone still references one movie: 'Bridesmaids!'

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Women
  • Movie
  • Star

• The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Men
  • Real
  • Technology

• In the three years since our nation began operations in Iraq, more than 2,500 Americans have been killed and more than 18,000 Americans have been seriously wounded.

  

  Ike Skelton
  • Three
  • Seriously
  • Operations

• There are designers who say, 'Oh! I see wallpaper and blue carpet.' I usually start by knocking down walls. 'You thought you just needed some new drapes? Well, guess what: That wall's gotta go.'

  

  Candice Olson
  • Thought
  • Wall
  • Start

• As opposed to putting too much confidence in myself, or in an image or a scene or a set of brushes, I really want to allow the oil paint to perform, to show me the things that it wants to do, beyond my imagination.

  

  Dan Colen
  • Me
  • Imagination
  • Confidence

• I was born with success. Lucky for me I am able to handle it. Also, I damn well deserve it!

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Success
  • Lucky
  • Deserve

• It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • World
  • Men
  • Teach

• Lacan, Derrida and Foucault are the perfect prophets for the weak, anxious academic personality, trapped in verbal formulas and perennially defeated by circumstances. They offer a self-exculpating cosmic explanation for the normal professorial state of resentment, alienation, dithering passivity and inaction.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Perfect
  • Personality

• One of the enduring pathologies of human culture is the tendency to raise children to fear and demonize other human beings on the basis of religious faith.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Children
  • Culture
  • Fear

• In our search for a lasting solution to the Kashmir problem, both in its external and internal dimensions, we shall not traverse solely on the beaten track of the past. Mindsets will have to be altered and historical baggage jettisoned.

  

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee
  • Past
  • Search

• Bacon, Locke, Descartes, Hume, and all the others knew they were giving rights to vulgarity. But in so doing-in addition to caring for man’s well-being-they were providing rights for themselves.

  

  Allan Bloom
  • Giving
  • Caring

• Well, with a subject like this, I'm afraid I'll have to reply. Apologies to minix-users who have heard enough about linux anyway. I'd like to be able to just 'ignore the bait', but … time for some serious flamefesting!

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • Time
  • Serious
  • Ignore

• The bedraggled warhorse of American blowhardism.

  

  Conrad Black
  • American

• The feminists took me as a role model, as a mother. It bothers me. I am not interested in being a mother. I am still a girl trying to understand myself.

  

  Louise Bourgeois
  • Trying
  • Mother
  • Girl

• I've been to Gettysburg probably more than half a dozen times.

  

  Keith Hernandez

• I don't think fairness means that you give equal time to every point of view no matter how marginal. You weigh the sides, you do some truth-testing, you apply judgment to them.

  

  Bill Keller
  • Time
  • Truth

• I have forgot much, Cynara! gone with the wind, Flung roses, roses riotously with the throng

  

  Ernest Dowson
  • Wind
  • Roses
  • Forgot

• All trials are trials for one’s life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Death
  • Sentences

• For night's swift dragons cut the clouds full fast,And yonder shines Aurora's harbinger;At whose approach ghosts, wandering here and there,Troop home to churchyards.

  

  Aurora
  • Home
  • Night
  • Clouds

• I ride horses, I love horses, I've owned horses.

  

  Pierce Brosnan