Brooke Shields Quotes

You don't necessarily have to be in misery to be talented.

Brooke Shields

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• There's a spirit of Latina women in all of my work, in the love of the body and the strong sense of self.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Work
  • Women
  • Love

• There are no rebels in the cinema business.

  

  Beatrice Dalle
  • Business
  • Cinema
  • Rebels

• I was promised on a time - to have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason.

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Time
  • Reason
  • Season

• I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Book
  • Sometimes
  • Stubborn

• One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.

  

  Nathalie Sarraute
  • People
  • Poetry
  • Poet

• Teach us to give and not to count the cost.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Religion
  • Teach
  • Cost

• The one way to discover about aliens is to tune your radio telescope and listen to the signals.

  

  Garik Israelian
  • Way
  • Listen
  • Radio

• You know sometimes when you're in a really bad mood and you're not sure why? That's how I get sometimes.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Why
  • Bad
  • Know

• It's a great advantage to be able to play people off against each other, isn't it? You go to Christie's and get a quote on something. And then you go to Phillips' and you tell them what Christie's has given you. I like auctions for artists.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • People
  • Great
  • Play

• Different days, I think about different victories. Ricky Hatton is one of those fights. I respect Ricky Hatton. He's a warrior. He's a hell of a warrior.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Different
  • Think
  • Respect

• I have made that one of my policies never to play anything that I've already put on record.

  

  Sam Rivers Limp Bizkit
  • Play
  • Never
  • Anything

• I would be happy if people just called me an actor.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • People
  • Happy
  • Be Happy

• Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Secret
  • Perseverance

• The airplane stays up because it doesn't have the time to fall.

  

  Orville Wright
  • Up
  • Time
  • Fall

• I'd really love to get back into commercials, actually. I love how quick and breezy they are. And honestly, they pay really well.

  

  Aarti Mann
  • Really
  • Pay
  • Get

• Jamal Crawford reminds me the most of myself, the way he goes to the basket. But they need leadership.

  

  Earl Monroe
  • Way
  • Leadership
  • Reminds

• I was still closeted, but from the day I decided to run for office, knowing that I was gay, I decided that I would, of course, still be closeted but that I would work very hard for gay rights. It would be totally dishonorable, being gay, not to do that. So I had that as kind of a secondary agenda.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Work
  • Day
  • Gay

• Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great
  • Strength
  • Perseverance

• The law of God, and also the way to life, is written in our hearts: It lieth in no man's supposition and knowing, nor in any historical opinion, but in a good will and well-doing.

  

  Jakob Bohme
  • Life
  • Good
  • God

• In terms of 'American Horror Story' and 'Nashville,' what attracted me to those, and 'Friday Night Lights,' for that matter, is that they felt like something innovative and something that we hadn't seen before. As an actor, that's exciting.

  

  Connie Britton
  • American
  • Night
  • Friday

• I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people - like meeting your in-laws for the first time.

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • Time
  • Better

• Could five hundred men have painted the Sistine Chapel?

  

  Bill Lear
  • Painted

• You don't necessarily have to be in misery to be talented.

  

  Brooke Shields