Brian Moore Quotes

If misery loves company, then triumph demands an audience.

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• The symbolic power of Barack Obama's presidency - that whiteness was no longer strong enough to prevent peons taking up residence in the castle - assaulted the most deeply rooted notions of white supremacy and instilled fear in its adherents and beneficiaries.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Up
  • Power
  • Strong

• Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own age, but a grown-up friend.

  

  P. L. Travers
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Age

• Humour allows people to exhale a little.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Little
  • Humour

• The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old, you're already there, so you don't even think about it anymore.

  

  Paolo Sorrentino
  • Age
  • Fear
  • Old Age

• I love the Spider-Man story. I watched the cartoon on TV when I was a kid, and my brother wore his Spider-Man pyjamas everywhere.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Man
  • Brother
  • Story

• Theater will cast in a more open way; Denzel Washington might play Richard III. Television and film don't really cast openly like that. The theater world has always been a leader in diversity.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • World
  • Leader
  • Diversity

• I don't want to say I took myself too seriously, but I put a lot of pressure on myself coming out of school. I saw so many people leave the business behind, certain opportunities disappear for folks who had to go into other professions. That kind of terrified me. As a result, I wanted things to happen really quickly.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • School
  • Business

• The human being is flesh and consciousness, body and soul; his heart is an abyss which can only be filled by that which is godly.

  

  Olivier Messiaen
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Body

• It's always a help when you have worked with someone as you've got to know them a bit already.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • Help
  • Know
  • Always

• My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Up
  • Time
  • Happy

• No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Leadership
  • Goals
  • Dreams

• My husband was in the war of the Crimea. It is terrible the hardships he went through, to be two months without going into a house, under the snow in trenches. And no food to get, maybe a biscuit in the day. And there was enough food there, he said, to feed all Ireland; but bad management, they could not get it.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • War
  • Bad
  • House

• Everyone sort of sees his own life and times as being ephemeral. One thinks that everything good or important that happened, happened in the past. But I think that seeing scenes that you are used to, but with the heightening effects of poetry, perhaps makes you value your life and times more than you might otherwise do.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Life
  • Good
  • Important

• I've always been really cautious about guys who have a Winnie Cooper fantasy, and I'm so glad about that. I mean, I can count on one hand the guys I've been with. It was really challenging, but I never gave it up too soon, if you know what I mean.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Up
  • Know
  • Hand

• Some people just don't like you; you cannot satisfy everyone. But I've got a lot of supportive fans – people who do like me, do enjoy what I do.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • People
  • Like
  • Enjoy

• I have an intense dislike of doctrines, because you will always end up eating your words.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Up
  • Words
  • End

• Honestly, Flav is not much of a video game player these days. BUT, I used to spend hours on Time Crisis. I beat all levels, man.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Time
  • Game
  • Man

• One day, I saw a statue of Benjamin Franklin, and I said to myself, 'I can do that kind of work, too.'

  

  Edmonia Lewis
  • Work
  • Day
  • Myself

• I think to look in the future, to plan another one, it's not realistic right now. But I don't close any doors. I'm very open for what comes up. At the moment, we are so happy with this one. I really hope people will like it as much as we do.

  

  Agnetha Fältskog
  • People
  • Up
  • Happy

• Doing voices in animated movies has been one of my dreams. You get to go and act, and you don't have to put on makeup.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Movies
  • Dreams
  • Makeup

• We wants it, we needs it. Must have the precious. They stole it from us. Sneaky little hobbitses. Wicked, tricksy, false!

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Wants
  • False
  • Wicked

• The Science of Mind is intensely practical because it teaches us how to use the Mind Principle for definite purposes, such as helping those who are sick, impoverished, or unhappy.

  

  Ernest Holmes
  • Mind
  • Science
  • Helping

• If misery loves company, then triumph demands an audience.

  

  Brian Moore