Max Beerbohm Quotes

Only the insane take themselves quite seriously.

Max Beerbohm

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• You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.

  

  Adam Arkin
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Isolation

• Album sales have collapsed, with few artists making money from albums; touring is more lucrative. But I'm 53 now and won't be able to tour forever, so a logical step is to get into writing film scores. Trouble is, you need to be somewhere which has a big film industry - another reason why I'm thinking about living in California.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Money

• In theatre, you've got to make the connect with your audience in the first three minutes. If you haven't, you know you've almost lost them.

  

  Om Puri
  • Know
  • Lost
  • Theatre

• We are today, in this country, convulsed by the situation in Iraq. It is an extraordinary crisis. It is taxing our men and women in uniform, and it is certainly taxing our resolve.

  

  Jack Reed
  • Men
  • Women
  • Country

• I do see value in music criticism. Most of the criticism I have received over the years has been very good.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Good
  • Music
  • Value

• Word of mouth is the most valuable form of marketing, but you can't buy it. You can only deliver it. And you have to really deliver.

  

  G-Eazy
  • You
  • Marketing
  • Mouth

• As I slowly managed to take what I had learned into a transition from contestant to announcer and warm-up, I first had to prove myself on pilots. And as you know, many pilots are taped for each show that is lucky enough to breakthrough to being a series.

  

  Randy West
  • Up
  • Myself
  • Lucky

• Ava DuVernay is my personal Phil Jackson. She's a perfect coach.

  

  Omar Dorsey
  • She
  • Perfect
  • Coach

• Applause is a receipt, not a bill.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Wisdom
  • Bill
  • Applause

• The torch relay is an excellent embodiment of all that the Olympic Games have come to symbolise - a celebration of the human spirit. Personally to me, it represents striving to be the best in whatever we do, never giving up despite the odds, and a commitment to health and fitness.

  

  Lakshmi Mittal
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Health

• I always worked mostly in Quebec. I never thought of the States, somehow. I don't know - I don't have blue eyes or blond hair. I thought I didn't fit with the stereotype of America.

  

  Karine Vanasse
  • America
  • Eyes
  • Hair

• Art is inherently political. Even trying to make a film that has nothing to do with politics is, in and of itself, a political act.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Trying
  • Art
  • Political

• We didn't shoot in 3-D. They've talked about doing a conversion and there's been a lot of talk about us doing 'Sucker Punch' in 3-D, but I'm still waiting to see.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Waiting
  • Doing
  • Talk

• Some breakfast cereals only come into their own as children's party treats: what are cornflakes and Coco Pops for, if not to clump together with melted chocolate and spoon into a cupcake holder?

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Children
  • Together
  • Party

• Some writers are curiously unmusical. I don't get it. I don't get them. For me, music is essential. I always have music on when I'm doing well. Writing and music are two different mediums, but musical phrases can give you sentences that you didn't think you ever had.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Music
  • Well
  • Mediums

• Disneyland is supposed to be the happiest place on Earth and I have to say when I'm riding around in that crazy Space Mountain ride I'm happy.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Happy
  • Earth
  • Space

• The Ogre does what ogres can,Deeds quite impossible for Man,But one prize is beyond his reach,The Ogre cannot master Speech:About a subjugated plain,Among its desperate and slain,The Ogre stalks with hands on hips,While drivel gushes from his lips.

  

  W. H. Auden

• Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Judge

• When we go to play, you flip around and flash around and everything, and then they're not gonna see nothin' but what their eyes see. Forget about their ears.

  

  Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience
  • Play
  • Flash
  • Flip

• I hope I can help convince people there that being transgender is not a big deal and that we are just average people trying to go to school, work, and live good lives.

  

  Nicole Maines
  • People
  • Convince
  • Transgender

• I went through an extremely trying ordeal, but I never forgot the world outside was a beautiful place.

  

  Amanda Lindhout
  • World
  • Trying
  • Beautiful

• I got my first professional job at Harvard, at the Loeb Drama Center, and I remember sitting on campus one day under a tree - I was doing 'Threepenny Opera.' I was reading a book, and the light caught me, and I thought, 'I want to be in the movies.'

  

  Margo Martindale
  • Job
  • Book
  • Remember

• When in doubt, punt!

  

  John Heisman
  • Doubt

• Only the insane take themselves quite seriously.

  

  Max Beerbohm