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

• How fantastic that the American ingenuity of NASA scientists got us to Mars. It makes me proud to be an American. I can't get enough of these images from when the probe touched down. These scientists are American heroes.

  

  Jennifer Granholm
  • American
  • Proud

• Then she fell on her knees, saying: 'I beg thee!' 'Nay, lady,' he said, and taking her by the hand he raised her. The he kissed her hand, and sprang into the saddle, and rode away, and did not look back; and only those who knew him well and were near to him saw the pain that he bore.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Hand
  • Pain
  • Raised

• When you work hard all day with your head and know you must work again the next day what else can change your ideas and make them run on a different plane like whisky?

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Different
  • Ideas
  • Next

• Ask any teenage girl to describe her perfect bedroom, and you'll get answers like 'a room with a private phone line, a place to hang out with friends, and for it to be way-cool and funky.' Ask parents the same question, and 'a locked door that opens on their 21st birthday' might top the list!

  

  Candice Olson
  • Friends
  • Parents
  • Girl

• When I retired from the NFL, my son was born on my birthday two weeks later, which is Valentine's Day. Imagine having a son born on your birthday.

  

  Jim Kelly
  • Son
  • Birthday

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

  

  Gene Tierney
  • Birthday