Jodie Foster Quotes

Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable.

Jodie Foster

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• Because we're in a small town and somewhat isolated from the fast lane of high tech, we've been able to grow and concentrate on our work instead of being distracted by the competition and getting caught up in the soap opera of Silicon Valley.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Up
  • Work
  • High

• You know, rock stardom... I have a hard time discussing that because I don't really accept it. It's not really that tangible. What's really bizarre is how it's used as a thing - you know, 'He's the rock star of politics,' 'He's the rock star of quarterbacks' - like it's the greatest thing in the world.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Time
  • World
  • Rock

• My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • People
  • Job
  • Speak

• It's really not about me. At the end of the day, God willing, I'll have another 40 or 50 years on this planet, and what I'm saying to myself is, 'What do I want to leave here?'

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • God
  • Day
  • End

• I was in law school at the University of Kentucky and realized I didn't really like law school, so I took a creative writing course for something different.

  

  Karen Robards
  • Different
  • Writing
  • School

• A manager should stay as far away as possible from his players. I don't know if I said ten words to Frank Robinson while he played for me.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Players
  • Played
  • Away

• It is a myth that art has to be sold. It is not like stocking a grocery store where people fill a pushcart. Art is a product that has no apparent need. The salesperson builds the need in the mind of the buyer.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • People
  • Mind
  • Art

• When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Love
  • For Him
  • Comfort

• Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Poetry
  • Language
  • Feelings

• The song of the blues, the song of the music, was something a lot of people missed out on. They thought they had to swagger a certain way or bark at the mic, and you don't have to do that.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • People
  • Music
  • Song

• If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Time
  • Horse
  • Gun

• I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Trying

• I get recognized all the time, but not as Haley Bennett.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Time
  • Get
  • Recognized

• I'll leave the swearing to the Jane Fondas.

  

  Irene Dunne
  • Leave
  • Swearing
  • Jane

• It is a process of finding the right music then planning a costume to fit that style of music.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Music
  • Style
  • Planning

• Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Literature
  • Said
  • Emotions

• What's happened to broadcasting is that broadcasting really used to be... it used to have a very clear public service quotient. And it's more or less now. And it's been lost.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Lost
  • Service
  • Clear

• Cheney refers to his vice presidency... as one of the most consequential vice presidencies in American history. And it clearly was.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • American
  • History
  • Vice

• I've been on the wrong end of violence, and I've done violence myself... I refuse to glorify violence in my movie and television roles.

  

  James Garner
  • Done
  • Movie
  • Violence

• It's getting so people no longer count the silverware when I come to dinner.

  

  Wilson Mizner
  • People
  • Dinner

• The strong man is he who knows how and is able to become and be himself; the magnanimous man is he who, being strong, knows how and is able to issue forth from himself, as from a fortress, to guide, protect, encourage, and save others.

  

  John Lancaster Spalding
  • Strong

• If you can find true contentment, it will last forever.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Forever
  • Find
  • Contentment

• I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

  

  Lord Byron
  • Future
  • Always
  • Console

• Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable.

  

  Jodie Foster