Plato Quotes
There are some whom the applause of the multitude has deluded into the belief that they are really statesmen.
Quotes to Explore
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For 120 minutes, 'Birdman' floats from comedy to surrealism to high drama to quiet brilliance. I felt so inspired by watching this movie. It reaches for the sky and never comes back down to earth.
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To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.
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The experience of making a movie is far removed from watching the end result. It's exciting, but it still makes me squirm.
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It was always my dream to write for a living.
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It's true that I'm not ashamed of my body. I'm comfortable, and I think more women should be more confident.
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I've made club songs, and I've made radio songs, and I've made the car songs.
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I'm worried a lot of our work day as artists is a producer's creation - not an artist's creation.
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When I first went to 'National Geographic,' I thought I was the least qualified person to step through the doors. But because of my parents and the culture of continual learning they imposed on us, I later came to believe I was the most qualified person who ever worked there.
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People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me.
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From the employees' standpoint, in 1935, Social Security was a big gamble. Employees would be required to participate in the program, contributing a percentage of their income for their entire adult working life.
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If there's something dangerous, sauces are dangerous for the body.
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Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.
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Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.
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Alice: It's the only way to leave. "I don't love you anymore. Goodbye." Dan: Supposing you do still love them? Alice: You don't leave.
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I was really surprised by the lack of awareness, by the apathy two years ago, ... The absence of that today is not surprising.
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Within a bony labrinthean cave, Reached by the pulse of the aerial wave, This sibyl, sweet, and Mystic Sense is found, Muse, that presides o'er all the Powers of Sound.
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Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.
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Methinks sometimes I have no more wit than a Christian or an ordinary man has; but I am a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm to my wit.
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A vain man can never be utterly ruthless: he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others.
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Those that hate goodness are sometimes nearer than those that know nothing at all about it and think they have it.
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There are some whom the applause of the multitude has deluded into the belief that they are really statesmen.
