Max Nordau Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I am getting to that age where I am too old to play the boy next door and too young to play Uncle Fester.
-
Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.
-
We've heard that the hookup culture is destroying us. We've heard that it's saving us. We've heard that it's racist. We've agonized over which one of these is true.
-
I want to make the music that's not there anymore. I'm so passionate about the singing voice... What I'm trying to do actually with my album is show that it's my voice that's leading. It's my voice that's the instrument.
-
Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.
-
We have the 2004 M1 here for reference, which is useful. It worked well here last year; we won the race and always did fast lap times so it will be interesting to compare it to the new bike and it will help us to understand which parts have improved.
-
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
-
I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were.
-
I try not to second-guess editors; they're the clients, and I have no expectation that my strip is going to make it into every paper every day.
-
For me, the labor movement and public education are linked as the essential building blocks to a strong middle class and a path to the American dream. It's why I went to Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations as an undergrad and then to law school.
-
He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
-
To learn something new every day is still exciting!
-
Courtroom dramas can be boring.
-
To me, I approach a small-budget, artsy, European movie the same way as a big commercial Hollywood movie. That's the most important thing. Hollywood usually represents this big dream in people's minds, but to me, it's just hard work.
-
It's a Japanese way of thinking, that I give value for my merchandise. So I don't want to sell unnecessarily expensive dresses and make just 10 or 20 and then feel satisfied. I want to design for real women who can afford my dresses.
-
I can't predict the future and I don't have respect for people who try to.
-
It is always challenging bowling abroad - you don't get much spin, bounce. You do get bounce, but you don't get sideways spin. It is always drifting kind of spin you get.
-
I haven't put an ounce of effort into my families. I never have.
-
My first experience on a feature film was with Shane Meadows on 'This Is England.'
-
You have delivered up our holy German Fatherland to one of the greatest demagogues of all time. I solemnly prophesy that this accursed man will cast our Reich into the abyss and bring our nation to inconceivable misery. Future generations will damn you in your grave for what you have done.
-
I broke my neck, it's a classic neck break from chin to chest. If I had been alone, I would probably be dead.
-
Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
-
Doubt means don't. Don't move. Don't answer. Don't rush forward.
-
It is well to be alone. It fertilizes the creative impulse.
