Joe Orton Quotes

McLeavy: My duty is clear.Truscott: Only the authorities can decide when your duty is clear. Wild guesses by persons like yourself can only cause confusion.

Joe Orton

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• I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Good
  • Women
  • Influence

• I grew up on films.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Up
  • Films
  • Grew

• I've always said that acting found me. I didn't really find it.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Me
  • Always
  • Acting

• Attraction doesn't stop when a child is born. It's the opposite. Being a mum and dad makes you even sexier.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • You
  • Stop
  • Dad

• The bottom line of Hollywood is money.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Money
  • Hollywood
  • Line

• There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Safety
  • Will
  • Finger

• If God, as some now say, is dead, He no doubt died of trying to find an equitable solution to the Arab-Jewish problem.

  

  I. F. Stone
  • God
  • Trying
  • Problem

• Too rigid specialization is almost as bad for a historian's mind, and for his ultimate reputation, as too early an indulgence in broad generalization and synthesis.

  

  Samuel E. Morison
  • Mind
  • Bad
  • Reputation

• There are a lot of people who can slide on talent their whole lives; they're just naturally gifted. I've never considered myself one of those people. I enjoy outworking the opposition.

  

  Zac Efron
  • People
  • Myself
  • Enjoy

• I got the idea that to write books would be the best way to spend a life. I never thought of anything else that seemed like half as much fun, although in my next life I would like to be an architect, too, so I can have an easier time restoring houses.

  

  Frances Mayes
  • Life
  • Time
  • Fun

• A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Man
  • Fight
  • Rights

• The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • People
  • Live
  • Age

• All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Way
  • Thought
  • U.S.

• In 10 years, I don't really know what I'll be, and I like not having any idea. I like the idea of being so passionate about everything I do and the fact that I might wake up tomorrow and say 'I want to be a chef,' and just pour myself into that.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Up
  • Myself
  • Tomorrow

• In fact, we have a choice of freedom of heart to follow God.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • Heart
  • Freedom

• I loved you in the morning, our kisses deep and warm, Your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy golden storm, Yes many loved before us, I know that we are not new, In city and in forest they smiled like me and you, But let's not talk of love or chains and things we can't untie, your eyes are soft with sorrow, Hey, that's no way to say goodbye.

  

  Leonard Cohen
  • City
  • Eyes
  • Morning

• The Academy and the Oscars have been very gracious to me.

  

  Billy Crystal

• There's a lot of pretty funny women out there.

  

  Chelsea Handler
  • Women
  • Pretty
  • Funny

• I have very little patience for people who whine and complain about life not being fair. It's just the risk of life. The only thing to do is live as much as you can and as best you can, and just sort of swing it from there.

  

  Katherine Heigl
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• Marching thus at night, a battalion is doubly impressive. The silent monster is full of restrained power; resolute in its onward sweep, impervious to danger, it looks a menacing engine of destruction, steady to its goal, and certain of its mission.

  

  Patrick MacGill
  • Power
  • Night
  • Goal

• I'm consistently recording and releasing stuff online or YouTube videos or whatever it is. I just don't know if it's going to be a full on, I'm the next Rihanna, or whatever. I'm not going for it to that level. But I love making music and I don't think I could stop if I wanted to.

  

  Drew Seeley
  • Music
  • Stop

• When I fight someone, I want to break his will. I want to take his manhood. I want to rip out his heart and show it to him.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Fight
  • Break
  • Manhood

• Lila was happy, and she was drawing me deeper and deeper into her fierce happiness, because she had suddenly found, perhaps without even realizing it, an opportunity that allowed her to portray the fury she directed against herself, the insurgence, perhaps for the first time in her life, of the need - and here the verb used by Michele was appropriate - to erase herself.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Happy
  • Opportunity
  • Realizing

• McLeavy: My duty is clear.Truscott: Only the authorities can decide when your duty is clear. Wild guesses by persons like yourself can only cause confusion.

  

  Joe Orton