John Buchan Quotes
The world was arrogant and self-satisfied, but behind all this confidence there was an uneasy sense of impending disaster. The old creeds, both religious and political, were largely in the process of dissolution, but we did not realise the fact, and therefore did not look for new foundations.
John Buchan
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I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that.
Jacki Weaver
If large numbers of people believe they have no shot at a better life in the future, they will work less hard and generate fewer new ideas and businesses. The economy, as a whole, will be poorer.
Adam Davidson
I believe that movies are fast becoming antique and dinosauric as a medium. Film is a medium for the over-40s and television has gone the same way. If you're going to look towards the new generation, then of course you're going to have to be a lot more random, spontaneous, irreverent and provocative with your programming.
Malcolm Mclaren
The fun thing about doing origin stories is you are introducing the audience to characters.
Damon Lindelof
As every scuba diver knows, panic is your worst enemy: when it hits, your mind starts to thrash and you are likely to do something really stupid and self-destructive.
Daniel Dennett
I know where my body's at, know how it feels, you know.
Calvin Johnson
I've always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain - its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have.
Gary Numan
If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
Zooey Deschanel
Bands develop their own weird ways of doing things.
Flea
Red Hot Chili Peppers
All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.
Samuel Beckett
We know that reading to children is a crucial step. From the beginning, babies who are read to are exposed to the cadence of language, and school-age children who read at home for 15 minutes a day are exposed to millions of words.
Randi Weingarten
Some people remaster their records six, seven times, remix it three, four times, spend a million hours, then they always go back and hear a demo of it and they'll say, 'Aw that sounds so much better than the final mix.'
Jack White
The White Stripes
I mean... if you're raised as a decent human being, killing somebody is against every moral thing you've ever been taught. And so, generally, in combat it's 'krauts,' the 'gooks,' the 'yanks' - whatever you want to do to try and make it so that it's not a human being.
Karl Marlantes
A PERFUME SHOULD BE AS IMBUED WITH MEANING AS IT IS LIGHT TO WEAR.
Paco Rabanne
Make your friends your teachers and mingle the pleasures of conversation with the advantages of instruction.
Baltasar Gracian
I think Obama and the economists around him have a very sophisticated understanding of both globalization and the technology revolution and the impact they're having on the world economy and they way they're creating these winner-take-all spirals.
Chrystia Freeland
We pride ourselves on being a touring band. We work very hard to give a great and unique performance.
John Gourley
Portugal. The Man
The world was arrogant and self-satisfied, but behind all this confidence there was an uneasy sense of impending disaster. The old creeds, both religious and political, were largely in the process of dissolution, but we did not realise the fact, and therefore did not look for new foundations.
John Buchan
