John Dryden Quotes
Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped;And they have kept it since by being dead.
Quotes to Explore
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San Francisco lags behind other communities in providing a vital, vibrant and ecologically sustainable urban canopy, as well as open space in the city.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.
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Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.
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I don't want to build any image for myself. I don't want people to say, 'He does only a certain type of role.' I don't want only to be the hero of the story. An actor's weakness is the different roles that he can't do. But I am keen to grab only those roles as I am here to challenge myself.
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The game of basketball is one thing, but the image of the game is another thing.
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Singing in Yiddish was a great thrill for me and came about through Joe Papp, the founder of The Public Theater.
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It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before.
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I prefer doing interviews where people don't have to interpret what you say. I'm going to be real honest.
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I used to hate working out - until I learned how to do it properly.
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The fan support was the greatest. It's everything.
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Obviously, you have quieter years than others - you don't go jumping out of a plane every day.
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The President is going to benefit from me reporting directly to him when I arrive.
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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.
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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
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I was a political science major in college and dreamed of being a diplomat.
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In the Middle East, we don't have the luxury to indulge in fantasy.
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People in general are used to seeing me as the naughty girl because that's what they've always cast me as.
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THERE IS NEVER ANYTHING TO PRO-DUCE. In spite of all its materialist efforts, production remains a utopia. We can wear ourselves out in materializing things, in rendering them visible, but we will never cancel the secret. (p. 65)
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I know only that in my belief in Adolf Hitler I put all my strength at the disposal of my people. As a German soldier I could only put myself at the service of the defense against those destructive forces which had once brought Germany close to the abyss, and which today, after the collapse of the Reich, are still threatening the world. If I have made mistakes in my work through a false conception of obedience, if I carried out orders, all of which, insofar as they are alleged to be cardinal orders, were issued before my time of office, then they are part of a fate which is stronger than myself and which is carrying me along with it. I am accused here because substitutes are needed for the missing Himmler and other elements which were completely contrary to me. Whether my point of view and explanation are accepted or rejected, I ask you not to connect the fate and honor of hundreds of thousands of the living and dead of the General SS, of the Waffen-SS, and of the civil servants who, believing in their ideal, bravely defended, their Reich to the last, with your just curse against Himmler. Like myself, they believed that they were acting according to law.
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I have next to no interest in makeup as a thing in and of itself, and nothing stresses me out like Sephora's salespeople.
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There are no liberals behind steering wheels.
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I was interned in Auschwitz for one year. I didn't bring back anything, except for a few jokes, and that filled me with shame. Then again, I didn't know what to do with this fresh experience. For this experience was no literary awakening, no occasion for professional or artistic introspection.
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Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped;And they have kept it since by being dead.
