Buster Keaton Quotes

We used to get arrested every other week - that is, the old man would get arrested.

Buster Keaton

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• Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Mistake
  • Individual

• The power should be in individual democracies in individual communities. It shouldn't be an oligarchy or some small group of elite. Power should be with the people and not with some politician or some heir to the throne or some madman.

  

  Finn Jones
  • People
  • Power
  • Small

• The worship of youth has diminished - perhaps generally - in recent years.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Years
  • Youth
  • Worship

• Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Great
  • Live
  • May

• From 1962 to 1965, the guitar became this icon of youth culture, thanks mostly to the Beatles.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Culture
  • Guitar
  • Thanks

• Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • God
  • Beautiful
  • Opportunity

• People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • People
  • Become
  • Accomplish

• You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and five the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Why
  • Game
  • Man

• I am pop, but like to shake things up a bit - funky things people wouldn't expect.

  

  Manika
  • Things
  • Expect
  • Pop

• You can change the feel of your sofa by adding a thick, cozy throw and playing a couple of classic pillows off a more Moroccan-inspired one.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Change
  • Couple
  • Feel

• It would be nice to say the rich people, the fancy people, all behaved like bastards and the poor slobs all came through like heroes. But as a matter of fact, sometimes the poor slobs behave like slobs and the great, noble, privileged characters come off very well, indeed.

  

  Walter Lord
  • People
  • Great
  • Nice

• Every day I do something that freaks me out.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Me
  • Day
  • Everyday

• It is a stern fact of history that no nation that rushed to the abyss ever turned back. Not ever, in the long history of the world. We are now on the edge of the abyss. Can we, for the first time in history, turn back? It is up to you.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• At the opening of the Odyssey, Telemachus, inspired by the male-born Athena, searches for his father by turning against his mother. Jesus too publicly spurns his mother to be about his father’s business. Male adulthood begins with the breaking of female chains.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Business
  • Mother
  • Father

• I feel like a million tonight. But one at a time.

  

  Mae West
  • Time

• Over and over, we hear politicians say they can't spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile.

  

  David Suzuki

• The only reason ever to make a sequel is to spend more time with the characters that people love: to tell more of their story.

  

  Elizabeth Banks
  • People
  • Time

• Arguably, my student status and perhaps my gender were also my downfall with respect to the Nobel Prize, which was awarded to Professor Antony Hewish and Professor Martin Ryle. At the time, science was still perceived as being carried out by distinguished men.

  

  Jocelyn Bell Burnell
  • Time
  • Men
  • Science

• By the time I went up to Cambridge, I was extremely quiet and well behaved, although I now meet people who remember me as not like that at all.

  

  Claire Tomalin
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• When some were saying that if Cæsar should march against the city they could not see what forces there were to resist him, Pompey replied with a smile, bidding them be in no concern, 'for whenever I stamp my foot in any part of Italy there will rise up forces enough in an instant, both horse and foot.'

  

  Plutarch
  • Up
  • City
  • Smile

• No, painting is not interior decoration. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Enemy
  • Painting
  • Decoration

• In general, I would think that at present prose writers are much in advance of the poets. In the old days, I read more poetry than prose, but now it is in prose where you find things being put together well, where there is great ambition, and equal talent. Poets have gotten so careless, it is a disgrace. You can’t pick up a page. All the words slide off.

  

  William H. Gass
  • Thinking
  • Together
  • Talent

• Real revolutionaries adorn themselves on the inside, not on the surface.

  

  Che Guevara
  • Real

• We used to get arrested every other week - that is, the old man would get arrested.

  

  Buster Keaton