Gene Tierney Quotes

I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed.

Gene Tierney

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• One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Truth
  • Always
  • Try

• Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Like
  • Scene
  • Theater

• The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Men
  • Sea
  • Forest

• Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical.

  

  Edgard Varese
  • Poor
  • Alphabet
  • Illogical

• My mum told me to have patience. It's about realising that when things aren't going the way you want them to, or you don't have inspiration, it will come.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Inspiration
  • Patience

• I would never want to be selected to a team just because I am going to set a record. It's critical to me to earn my way.

  

  Ian Millar
  • Team
  • Record
  • Earn

• I think we in the Alpha Band, which was a strange group anyway, weren't dealing with any of these issues. They sneaked up on us and took us over, before we know what was going on.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Up
  • Think
  • Know

• Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Imagination
  • Happiness

• Nothing is more enjoyable for me than when I'm watching a movie or a TV show and there's that sense that anything can happen. It is the most fun feeling in the world.

  

  Adam McKay
  • World
  • Movie
  • Sense

• A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • People
  • Work
  • America

• I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • People
  • Other
  • Involvement

• In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Law
  • Place
  • Conscience

• A clock struck out the hour of twelve, and the bird in the hedgerow was still singing as we marched out to the roadway, and followed our merry pipers home to town.

  

  Patrick MacGill
  • Home
  • Singing
  • Bird

• But nobody predicted anything of this magnitude in terms of resistance. And in part, the magnitude of the resistance was spurred by our failures in reconstruction.

  

  Wayne White
  • Anything
  • Nobody
  • Resistance

• I never think of myself as any kind of sex symbol, but I get letters from all over, all sorts. It's really cool. I get a lot from inmates, which is kind of scary. But the best was the guy who wanted to send me a plane ticket to fly me to his prom.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Guy
  • Myself
  • Best

• If the human body recognized agony and frustration, people would never run marathons, have babies, or play baseball.

  

  Carlton Fisk
  • People
  • Body
  • Baseball

• I've always loved mysteries, the something there that you didn't know, and with 'Case Histories' I just decide to make that more up-front.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Up
  • Know
  • Always

• All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.

  

  Adam McKay
  • You
  • Director
  • Tone

• In the early days of the Russian Revolution in 1917, I was completely in sympathy with it. I felt that it established a new era in the history of the modern world. I was so overwhelmed by it that, if people made any unfriendly comment, I would vigorously defend it. If people condemned the Communist party, I would speak in its defense.

  

  Chiang Kai-shek
  • People
  • World
  • History

• I was never given a trial. I never went before any magistrate, nor did my parents. To this day, I do not know what the charges that were lodged against me or my deceased parents at this time.

  

  Bob Matsui
  • Parents
  • Trial
  • Charges

• Those of us who participate realize the incredible honor bestowed on us, but to really understand the true scope and depth of the movement requires more investigation and concentration.

  

  Bill Toomey
  • True
  • Honor

• I was never really that aware of commercial things. The stuff that was really influential to me were bands like the Misfits or the Birthday Party, or things like that. If someone said, "Do you love Judas Priest?" - I never really even had a Judas Priest record. That's not what I grew up with. That wasn't really my scene, you know? That's why White Zombie never really fit. I still don't fit.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • Up
  • Why
  • Party

• The birth of a child is the imprisonment of a soul.

  

  William Gilmore Simms
  • Children
  • Soul
  • Birthday

• I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed.

  

  Gene Tierney
  • Birthday