Yul Brynner Quotes
When I am dead and buried, on my tombstone I would like to have it written, 'I have arrived.' Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'd love to see more middle and high school teachers who are not teaching English develop classroom libraries. Our message to kids should be that reading is for everyone.
-
Music was a big outlet for me. Being able to play an instrument and sing was definitely a good way for me to escape things I was dealing with: family issues, growing up, being a kid and not knowing what I wanted to do with my life.
-
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
-
I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith, a desire to fulfill their spiritual longings, but they are not experts in understanding the history of their religion.
-
Kids in a home with grandparents are healthier.
-
One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
-
I know I'm never going to be as successful as my dad, but I get bored doing nothing. I couldn't go from vacation to vacation and have no motivation.
-
Australia has a very big history of incarceration. What does that mean to us? What does it mean that we came over to a country that's not necessarily ours and filled it with white prisoners?
-
One of the great things about Sydney is that it has a great acceptance of everyone and everything. It's an incredibly tolerant city, a city with a huge multicultural basis.
-
I got into politics because businessmen should be spending your money.
-
There's a smartphone gait: the slow sidewalk weave that comes from being lost in conversation rather than looking where you're going.
-
Christianity, Judaism and Islam all share a gospel, loosely, and it's important that we all realize that.
-
People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
-
My head's never really quiet. The only time I can get it to turn off is if I watch 'CSI' or 'Law & Order,' where I have to follow the crime. If I can't turn my head off during that, I know I've really got a problem.
-
At the age of 11 I was about 6 ft. tall and my voice had completely broken. That caused problems. I was this gangly, spotty, very unattractive kid. I wasn't cool and I wasn't a nerd. I didn't even want to fit in with anyone.
-
The more that I looked at DNA, the more I realized it was nature and nurture. It's how genes and your environment work together to produce the person you are.
-
There's a molecule inside of you that is connected to everything - every person, every energy, every thing. You look for it, and when you find it, then you allow it to magnify and grow and be the dominating chemistry inside of you.
-
You have a new role: family caregiver. It's a role nobody applies for. You don't expect it. You won't be prepared. You probably won't even identify yourself as a caregiver.
-
The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.
-
The problem with the British film industry is the nervousness and insecurity about - and genuflection toward - Los Angeles.
-
I've been writing songs all my life. My mom said I wrote my first song when I was two.
-
Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.
-
If we don't have God in our life, we're considered dead.
-
When I am dead and buried, on my tombstone I would like to have it written, 'I have arrived.' Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.
