John Hurt Quotes

I like the physical activity of gardening. It's kind of thrilling. I do a lot of weeding.

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• We must strive to become good ancestors.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Good
  • Strive
  • Ancestors

• It's a wonderful feeling being a bridge to the past and unite generations.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Past
  • Feeling
  • Bridge

• Intelligence is sexy. Don't play dumb, especially young girls. Don't play dumb. And let people see that you are intelligent.

  

  Iman
  • People
  • Intelligent
  • Sexy

• You have to go through those mountains and valleys - because that's what life is: soul growth.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Growth

• What love is to man, music is to the arts and to mankind. Music is love itself - it is the purest, most ethereal language of passion, showing in a thousand ways all possible changes of color and feeling; and though true in only a single instance, it yet can be understood by thousands of men - who all feel differently.

  

  Carl Maria von Weber
  • Music
  • Men
  • Love

• It's a good thing that when God created the rainbow he didn't consult a decorator or he would still be picking colors.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Good
  • God
  • Rainbow

• The perils of duck hunting are great - especially for the duck.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Great
  • Hunting
  • Duck

• I can be quite surprised by what makes me cry, but it's usually spiritual things.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Me
  • Spiritual
  • Cry

• What is science? yard-measure and scale to philosophy, expert-accountant, bank clerk. What is poetry? miserable, ill-fed, underpaid, unionized labourer, pleased to oblige, grateful for work, flattering himself that poverty makes him an aristocrat.

  

  Laura Riding
  • Work
  • Science
  • Poetry

• Inside the henhouse from where he will be taken to be killed, the cock sings hymns to liberty because he was given two perches.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Taken

• I interpreted all you did as weakness - but I should have known that it was wisdom and strength, freely shared with all of us, even the ones who don't deserve it.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Wisdom

• 'This place ought never to have been dug up.'

  

  Edward VIII
  • Up

• Whatever we may do, excess will always keep its place in the heart of man, in the place where solitude is found. We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes and our ravages. But our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to fight them in ourselves and in others.

  

  Albert Camus
  • World
  • Heart
  • May

• To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre

• Oh, I've wept.  Yeah, I've definitely wept just with the world, you know, how judgmental they are.  You know what, I know I'm a good mom.

  

  Britney Spears
  • World
  • Good
  • Mom

• We live in a multi-cultural world, so embracing diversity is important in every industry.

  

  Elaine Welteroth
  • World
  • Important
  • Live

• I have always maintained a strong opposition to marriage because I would have to be in serious denial to pretend I wasn't born with a personality for divorce. Whatever the opposite of amicable is, that's how my breakups tend to play out.

  

  Chelsea Handler
  • Strong
  • Marriage
  • Serious

• I'd always dabbled in acting.

  

  Nelsan Ellis

• The best way to get anybody's attention is dinner. I have good kitchen skills and good grocery shopping skills.

  

  Al Roker
  • Good
  • Attention
  • Kitchen

• 'Day of the Dead' remains my favourite zombie film of mine.

  

  George A. Romero

• I am a very conscientious golfer. I count every stroke. I learned to play that way. That is the only way I can play. It taught me to be honest. There is no greater virtue than honesty.

  

  Martin Sheen
  • Honesty

• Christians are made, not born.

  

  Tertullian
  • Born
  • Christians

• To me acting and singing are worlds apart.

  

  Emmylou Harris
  • Singing

• I like the physical activity of gardening. It's kind of thrilling. I do a lot of weeding.

  

  John Hurt