Maxim Gorky Quotes

The most beautiful words in the English language are 'not guilty'.

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• To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • Faith
  • Religious
  • Moral

• I'm working now on a collection of Shakespearean sonnets, about 100 of them, that I may publish if anyone's interested. My take on life is a little different from the bard's.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Life
  • Different
  • May

• The mind must be cured as well as the body, as the mind so is the body.

  

  Daniel D. Palmer
  • Mind
  • Body
  • Well

• I've had five weddings but if I'm really honest and if I count significant de factos... I've had nine husbands... which sounds appalling but when you consider I started at 18 and I'm 65 it's not so bad.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Bad
  • You
  • Count

• Anna Wintour has guided me.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Me
  • Guided
  • Anna

• I always wanted to be an actress. And it wasn't ego. I felt so little about myself, considered myself such a sparrow. Not just my size. I thought I was so plain... I did plays not to show off but because if I did that - I didn't realize it at the time - I would be somebody other than this person I didn't really approve of.

  

  Frances Bay
  • Time
  • Myself
  • Thought

• People who get rich early should help the rest get rich.

  

  Zong Qinghou
  • People
  • Help
  • Rest

• This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • May
  • Like
  • Beauty

• Doo-wop is the true music to me, man. Doo-wop was what nurtured me and grew me into who I am, and I guess even when I was in school, the teacher probably thought I had ADD or something every day, because I'd be beating on the desks, singing like the Flamingos or the Spaniels or Clyde McPhatter or somebody.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Music
  • School
  • True

• I don't be remembering women that I've met before. I don't remember people as a whole. It's crazy. A lot of times, people get in their feelings, like, 'You don't remember me?!'

  

  Wale
  • People
  • Women
  • Remember

• This applies to many film jobs, not just editing: half the job is doing the job, and the other half is finding ways to get along with people and tuning yourself in to the delicacy of the situation.

  

  Walter Murch
  • People
  • Job
  • Yourself

• If you're a competitive person, that stays with you. You don't stop. You always look over your shoulder.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Stop
  • Always
  • Look

• One day, though, I was asked if I'd like to go to the University of Florida and become a Gator.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Day
  • Like
  • Florida

• I have a tendency to think that when you portray baddies in movies, they come out more human than good guys.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Good
  • Think
  • Movies

• I don't dwell on success. Maybe that's one reason I'm successful.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Success
  • Reason
  • Successful

• I think I'd be a great mom, honestly. I don't think I'll have any problem giving them all the love in the world. Discipline will be the hard part.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • World
  • Love
  • Giving

• Cerrone is a great opponent. The guy won eight fights straight.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Great
  • Guy
  • Straight

• I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.

  

  Yann Martel
  • World
  • Art
  • Think

• I think, taking too long to work on a record, you sort of lose some of the feeling, so I write as fast as I can; it's just this manic phase where I'm by myself and or on tour, and I write, and I write.

  

  John Darnielle
  • Work
  • Long
  • Feeling

• If you really look at it, I was trying to sell a dream … There was very little I could put in concrete to tell these people it was really real.

  

  Charles K. Kao
  • People
  • Real
  • Trying

• All my lyrics are open to interpretation by the individual and imply many different meanings, therefore their relevance is purely subjective.

  

  Ian Curtis Joy Division
  • Different
  • Individual
  • Lyrics

• Pergamon, a prosperous city in western Anatolia, was fabled to have been founded by Hercules' son. Like many Hellenistic cities populated by Greeks who intermarried with indigenous people, Pergamon after Alexander the Great's death (323 B.C.) had evolved a hybrid of democracy and Persian-influenced monarchy.

  

  Adrienne Mayor
  • People
  • Great
  • Death

• And then he greeted Death as an old friend, and went with him gladly, and, equals, they departed this life.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Life
  • Death
  • Friend

• The most beautiful words in the English language are 'not guilty'.

  

  Maxim Gorky
  • Beautiful
  • Words
  • English