Gene Tierney Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
For about a year, I just didn't know what to do. I did laboring jobs, working in the docks, construction sites.
-
I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist.
-
Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.
-
People ask me, 'Isn't it scary living on your own?' but in this industry, being at events, doing interviews, and doing promotion and constantly chatting about yourself, sometimes it's really nice to just sit in silence or take a day where you can sleep in until 3 P.M. and then stay up as late as you like.
-
Since the age of 14, I have littered – excuse me, adorned – the Internet with Taylor Swift analyses.
-
I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all.
-
Actors do like watching girls parade down the runway for some reason.
-
There doesn't seem to be a lot of middle ground with me.
-
I would not invest in any shoe that is too trendy.
-
We need to conceptualize; we need to articulate conservative domestic policy with a laser focus on opportunity, on easing the means of ascent up the economic ladder.
-
Human beings are very complex creatures. This desire, this greed, this love is very complex.
-
Seriously, some Americans just shouldn't leave the country.
-
Perhaps concentrated wealth will inspire a nation of innovative problem-solvers. But if the view of many economists is right - that it sometimes discourages innovation - then we should worry.
-
One day, I want to make a PG film.
-
Nabokov, who I loved more than any other writer when I was young, had such contempt for dialogue. When I was younger, I never wrote a word of dialogue because of him. I thought it was a childish part of a novel.
-
I'm not on Facebook, and I don't tweet, but I know plenty of people who love both.
-
You can never solve a problem without talking to people with whom you disagree. The United States Senate is predicated and based on consensus building. That was certainly the vision of the founding fathers.
-
I don't really have any ditties left in me anymore.
-
Heaven to me is percussion and bass, a screaming guitar and a burbling Hammond B-3 organ. It's a soup I love being immersed in.
-
The name of the album is 'Non-Fiction'. And, I'm calling it that because the name of every song on this album is derived from a true story. Now, some of the stories are mine. Some of the stories belong to some of my fans.
-
A Galileo could no more be elected president of the United States than he could be elected Pope of Rome. Both high posts are reserved for men favored by God with an extraordinary genius for swathing the bitter facts of life in bandages of self-illusion.
-
Anyone can make anyone else look bad if they really want to pull things apart enough.
-
I pride myself on my personilty and not my looks because one day, I will be old and crusty with a moustache, and someone is going to love me for my personality and not looks. So whoever is going to marry me is going to laugh till he dies.
-
In later years, I craved foods that were almost always fattening.
