Melanie Lynskey Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact.
-
Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
-
It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.
-
I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.
-
Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.
-
I never had crushes on anybody when I was younger; I really didn't.
-
Husbands and wives, first be faithful to each other. Second, keep the romance going all of your life by courting each other every day.
-
We solve last year's problems without thinking about the future.
-
I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.
-
I never thought I would go to Gaza. It's incredibly difficult to get into, and when you get there, it's a war zone. Then they have this beach, and there's this incredible, vibrant beach culture there, which is something that I grew up with in Southern California.
-
I loved to sing in family parties, for my friends and family. That's how I discovered my talent.
-
I have never read 'To Kill A Mockingbird.'
-
I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
-
This is my seventh decade... and every once in a while I get a hankering to re-visit these songs again... songs with which I have had a great relationship.
-
Unsurprisingly, the poll-takers don't talk a lot in public about the ignorance of the electorate on political and public policy matters. And the politicians are not going to disclose the, let's say, limited body of knowledge in their constituencies. You don't get elected calling your voters airheads.
-
A lot of things trigger my inspiration. It can be the most banal things.
-
My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union, and there was very little time. The door was closing, and I wanted to get Bosnia through before it shut.
-
Honesty and loyalty are key. If two people can be honest with each other about everything, that's probably the biggest key to success.
-
The people will live on. The learning and blundering people will live on. They will be tricked and sold and again sold. And go back to the nourishing earth for rootholds.
-
Love is something that never goes out of style.
-
Why would heavy metal ever go away?
-
Pythagoras took the next important step by subordinating the mere matter of nature to its essential principle of form and order, identifying the latter with reason or the soul.
-
The attack on the transgender troops - disgusting, disgraceful, outrageous. It's just endless. And then you try to do your day job of finding good bipartisan work across the aisle... You're doing both all the time. I guess I would describe it as intense. Everything is very intense.
-
To take a job just so I can go on a fancy vacation doesn't really seem worth it.
