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
  • Colors

• 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

• The secret of love is in opening up your heart.It's okay to feel afraid,But don't let that stand in your way, no.'Cause anyone knows that love is the only road.And since we're only here for a while yeahMight as well show some style.

  

  James Taylor
  • Up
  • Heart
  • Style

• '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

• Está triste, porque te abandonan y no estás caído.

  

  Antonio Porchia

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

  

  Elaine Welteroth
  • World
  • Important
  • Live

• So many Muslims have this belief that everything between the two covers of the Koran is just God's unaltered word. They like to quote the textual work that shows the Bible has a history and did not fall straight out of the sky, but until now the Koran has been out of this discussion. The only way to break through this wall is to prove that the Koran has a history too. The Sana'a fragments will help us do that.

  

  Gerd R. Puin
  • Helping
  • Belief
  • Prove

• I am going to retire, and it is going to be a permanent retirement.

  

  Art Bell
  • Retirement

• There was never an age in which useless knowledge was more important than in our own.

  

  C. E. M. Joad
  • Important
  • Age
  • Knowledge

• A life is such a strange object, at one moment translucent, at another utterly opaque, an object I make with my own hands, an object imposed on me, an object for which the world provides the raw material and then steals it from me again, pulverized by events, scattered, broken, scored yet retaining its unity; how heavy it is and how inconsistent: this contradiction breeds many misunderstandings.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Broken
  • Hands
  • Life is

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

  

  John Hurt