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.

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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

• When you're as chaotic as I am, you need a very firm structure in your life.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Life
  • Need
  • Structure

• 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

• There are plenty of difficult obstacles in your path. Don't allow yourself to become one of them.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Path
  • Yourself
  • Obstacles

• 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'm 48 years old, not a kid anymore by any definition, but here is a universal truth that every adult at some point will realize: We are all always 17 years old, waiting for our lives to begin.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Truth
  • Waiting
  • Old

• 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

• I have never felt the grips of patriarchy and its need to erase black women and our labor... so strongly until the creation of Black Lives Matter.

  

  Patrisse Cullors
  • Women
  • Black

• If moral statements are about something, then the universe is not quite as science suggests it is, since physical theories, having said nothing about God, say nothing about right or wrong, good or bad. To admit this would force philosophers to confront the possibility that the physical sciences offer a grossly inadequate view of reality. And since philosophers very much wish to think of themselves as scientists, this would offer them an unattractive choice between changing their allegiances or accepting their irrelevance.

  

  David Berlinski
  • Thinking
  • Reality
  • Choices

• Curiosity is the engine of achievement.

  

  Ken Robinson
  • Achievement
  • Curiosity
  • Engine

• 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