Mel Gibson (Mel Colmcille Gerard Gibson) Quotes

I don't care if I don't act anymore.

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• To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.

  

  Quintilian
  • Man
  • Swear
  • Honorable

• That's one of the lucky things about getting the success later on. I know how I want to dress, I know what kind of house I want to live in, I just know more about myself, and that's true about the roles I want to play and what parts of myself I want to express. You're just more in touch with yourself.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Live
  • True
  • House

• America has much greatness left in her.

  

  Rand Paul
  • America
  • Greatness
  • Her

• I like them all - I don't always approve. I see myself as a sort of benevolent uncle to these characters, and I can see why they do what they do; sometimes they make some mistakes, but at heart I think they're decent.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • Heart
  • Why
  • Myself

• I've spent a lot of my life among people brighter than myself.

  

  Larry Niven
  • People
  • Life
  • Myself

• At first the English were very surprised by our disregarding the Hague Convention. But from 1916 onward they used at least as much poison as we did.

  

  Otto Hahn
  • English
  • First
  • Poison

• All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Now
  • Ridiculous
  • Purity

• In America, people are just so straightforward when they dislike things.

  

  Frances Mayes
  • People
  • America
  • Dislike

• One of the most important things, actually, when you're playing on grass, is to move.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Important
  • You
  • Grass

• Radio listeners often have a very fertile imagination when it comes to body shape.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Imagination
  • Body
  • Radio

• I think I've had the fantasy of a ray-gun that could erase the world from the time I was a very little kid.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Time
  • World
  • Think

• All my siblings became artists. One's a novelist, my brother is a painter, my sister was a costume designer.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • Brother
  • Sister
  • Costume

• People put me on a box, and I love when people think they know what I am capable of or not capable of. I thrive off of that.

  

  T.I.
  • People
  • Love
  • Capable

• Parents are trying to be friends with their kids rather than draw the line and tell them what proper public behavior would be.

  

  Gallagher
  • Trying
  • Kids
  • Friends

• I absolutely don't dislike children - I would choose their company over adult company any time.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Time
  • Children
  • Choose

• I was preppy, then suddenly switched around age 14. I asked my mother to go to this vintage store, and she let me buy a leopard swing coat, pink cigarette pants, and lime-green gloves.

  

  Kate Spade
  • She
  • Mother
  • Age

• If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late? Nobody.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Girl
  • Late
  • Meets

• The thing I can't figure out is why I have an undeniable compulsion to clean public spaces, airplane bathrooms, restaurant flatware, hotel gyms and Chapstick containers... yet I have no desire to make my own bed. Ever. Seriously, who made me, and where am I from?

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Desire
  • Bed
  • Seriously

• We must trust to nothing but facts: These are presented to us by Nature, and cannot deceive. We ought, in every instance, to submit our reasoning to the test of experiment, and never to search for truth but by the natural road of experiment and observation.

  

  Antoine Lavoisier
  • Truth
  • Nature
  • Trust

• The Washingtonian said it shouldn't be built. The gallery's East Building is now considered a triumph, and members of the American Association of Architects have voted it one of the best buildings of all time.

  

  J. Carter Brown
  • Time
  • American
  • Best

• This is the word tightrope. Now imaginea man, inching across it in the spacebetween our thoughts. He holds our breath.There is no word net.You want him to fall, don't you?I guessed as much; he teeters but succeeds.The word applause is written all over him.

  

  Carol Ann Duffy
  • Fall
  • Thoughts

• What I like about the American woman is she usually has a lot of dynamism. In the U.S., women have a tendency to go forward, to be more exaggerated than in Europe. Many times the rough ideas come from the States, then they are refined in Europe. The American women and the French women are still the best-dressed.

  

  Francoise Gilot
  • Women
  • She
  • American

• I think the music business is probably not happy with what we've done, because the people buying the record have actually got to pick what they want to buy, rather than being told what they should buy.

  

  John Otway
  • People
  • Music
  • Done

• I don't care if I don't act anymore.

  

  Mel Gibson