Pierce Brosnan Quotes

Once I found acting and found that I could get away with it and make a living out of it, I was thrilled.

Pierce Brosnan

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• The difference between eccentricity and originality in historical studies is often difficult to detect at first encounter. When a radically new interpretation of a large segment of history makes its appearance, time is needed to sift the evidence.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Time
  • History
  • New

• Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Way
  • Wisdom
  • Ignore

• I loved the glamour and excitement of the games and, in particular, knowing the names of each and every one of the referees - that's because my mom, a former basketball player, would yell at them from our front-row seats for making bad calls!

  

  Hannah Storm
  • Bad
  • Mom
  • Player

• You don't have to be something to do something.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • You
  • Something

• I happen to be the kind of reader who, if I like something, I don't want it to end.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Want
  • Kind
  • End

• The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology.

  

  Basil Bunting
  • Poetry
  • Moment
  • Try

• You're always facing the top defenders in this league. To go out there and do your best, that's all you can ask for.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Best
  • Always
  • Do Your Best

• In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.

  

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair
  • Church
  • Most
  • Partnership

• I've been playing American football since I was six years old. I was a captain of my high school team, playing strong safety.

  

  Gabriel Luna
  • School
  • American
  • High

• If you're asking me to acknowledge that I've gotten older, I can do that.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • You
  • Me
  • I Can

• Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Great
  • Soul
  • Society

• Canadians can get Parliament working again. Here's how to do that: elect more New Democrats.

  

  Jack Layton
  • Working
  • New
  • Again

• One is actually the democracy here, you know, people are, people assume that this election means that there is democracy in Pakistan. There is no democracy.

  

  Imran Khan
  • People
  • Democracy
  • Election

• Like in nature, I like things which are based on a few simple principles, even though their manifestation can be very rich.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Nature
  • Simple
  • Rich

• The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • World
  • Death
  • Sacrifice

• I'd always been quite quiet growing up, and singing was a way of having a voice.

  

  Leona Lewis
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Singing

• When we retreat to the country, we are hiding not from people, but from our pride, which, in the city and among people, operates unfairly and immoderately.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • People
  • Country
  • City

• It's a lot easier producing for people or being in the background, and they can take all the fire from the front. But in order to express the ideas that I have without any kind of contamination, I thought it would be a cool thing to be out front.

  

  Labrinth LSD
  • People
  • Cool
  • Fire

• Loads of chemicals and hazardous wastes have been introduced into the atmosphere that didn't even exist in 1948. The environmental condition of the planet is far worse than it was 42 years ago.

  

  Gaylord Nelson

• My favourite eras for styles are still the 70s and 40s, and there will be a few iconic pieces to build the wardrobe around, like there were at Chloe, but I want there to be a feel of mix-and-match.

  

  Phoebe Philo

• She doth mean the earth to me! By earth, I actually mean dust.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Earth
  • Dust
  • Actually

• Music reality shows are a good thing, especially for those seeking a career in music.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Good
  • Music
  • Career

• Once I found acting and found that I could get away with it and make a living out of it, I was thrilled.

  

  Pierce Brosnan