Buster Keaton Quotes

I don't act, anyway. The stuff is all injected as we go along. My pictures are made without script or written directions of any kind.

Buster Keaton

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• Life is not easy for anyone. You have to have ups and downs. You can make mistakes. You learn and try not to make them again. That's pretty much my principle.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • Learn

• Every frame of a Coen brothers movie is filled with history and meaning, and the deeper you go, the deeper you get. That's why their movies stand up particularly well to repeated viewing and investigation.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Up
  • Why
  • History

• The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. You are what you are.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • You
  • Like
  • Personality

• It was in a stonecutter's house where I went to have a headstone made for Raftery's grave that I found a manuscript book of his poems, written out in the clear beautiful Irish characters.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Book
  • House
  • Beautiful

• Taste is one of the five senses, and the man who tells us with priggish pride that he does not care what he eats is merely boasting of his sad deficiency: he might as well be proud of being deaf or blind, or, owing to a perpetual cold in the head, of being devoid of the sense of smell.

  

  E. F. Benson
  • Man
  • Proud
  • Pride

• I don't like cooking just for myself; I enjoy feeding other people, particularly outdoors.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • People
  • Myself
  • Enjoy

• This uprising of 1976-77 was, of course, the historic watershed... Within a short period of time, it propelled into the forefront of our struggle millions of young people.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • People
  • Time
  • Struggle

• Michael is a funny character, for whom I have a great deal of affection. He sat across his desk and seemed to be a bit of a blunt fellow. We began talking about the characters and he opened up about his vision.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Up
  • Great
  • Character

• I don't think films about elderly people have been made very much.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • People
  • Think
  • Elderly

• As more women 'lean in' and we collectively continue to fight sexism, there's another barrier to progress that hasn't been addressed: Many men who would like to see more women leaders are afraid to speak up about it.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• I was a real daydreamer at school, gazing out of the window and losing myself in imaginary worlds.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Real
  • School
  • Myself

• This ain't fun. But you watch me, I'll get it done.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Done
  • Fun
  • Me

• I believe in breakfast. It's the one meal that my kids usually eat without a fuss, so that's huge. As for myself, I can't function without it, and I see it as a great way to get some healthy greens in, some coffee, and on a good day, maybe even some news of the world via the newspaper.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • World
  • Good
  • Great

• In the end, there's something of the puritan work ethic about me that roles really must sustain me on an intellectual level.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Work
  • End
  • Work Ethic

• The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • Science
  • Lies
  • Claim

• Many Indians and Israelis seem set to elect, with untroubled consciences, those who speak the language of torturers and terrorists. More disturbingly, these corrupted democracies may increasingly prove the norm rather than the exception.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • May
  • Language
  • Speak

• You can go to Pinterest, and they'll get to know who your friends are, but they don't get to know very much about what you've done in the past. They're starting with little information about you, and they have to do this personalization.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • Done
  • Friends
  • Past

• 'What, now?' 'Soon equates to good, later to worse, Uagen Zlepe, scholar. Therefore, immediacy.'

  

  Iain Banks
  • Good

• It's funny, I never think I'm doing that well. I've never, ever. I just constantly think, 'This isn't working out.'

  

  Dominic Cooper
  • Funny

• At independence, Tanzania had 350,000 elephants... in 1987, there were only 55,000 elephants left.

  

  Jakaya Kikwete

• Tell me a fact, and I'll learn. Tell me a truth, and I'll believe. But tell me a story, and it will live in my heart forever.

  

  Ed Sabol
  • Truth
  • Learn
  • Story

• Learn to be good readers, which is perhaps a more difficult thing than you imagine. Learn to be discriminative in your reading; to read faithfully, and with your best attention, all kinds of things which you have a real interest in,--a real, not an imaginary,--and which you find to be really fit for what you are engaged in.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Attention
  • Learn
  • Interest

• 'We build our computers the way we build our cities-over time, without a plan, on top of ruins.'

  

  Ellen Ullman
  • Time

• I don't act, anyway. The stuff is all injected as we go along. My pictures are made without script or written directions of any kind.

  

  Buster Keaton