John Stuart Mill Quotes
Almost all rich veins of original and striking speculation have been opened by systematic half-thinkers.
Quotes to Explore
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The ad in the paper said 'Big Sale. Last Week.' Why advertise? I already missed it. They're just rubbing it in.
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What happens in the heart simply happens.
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Opportunity, n. A favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment.
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I had gone to the doctor. The doctor said, 'You're healthy as a horse. You've got two weight problems - two health problems because of your weight. Please do something.'
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I don't really have any plans in terms of what I want to do - movies, television, theater - but I'd love to do a play in New York.
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My mum took me to the ballet at three, and that was the only time I sat still, with jaw open, mesmerised. She brought me home, and I wouldn't stop dancing.
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People are going to assume whatever they want to assume.
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I think what matters most in literary work is the context, not the text.
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If you're a reporter, the easiest thing in the world is to get a story. The hardest thing is to verify. The old sins were about getting something wrong, that was a cardinal sin. The new sin is to be boring.
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I started singing in coffeehouses when I was still in high school, in Santa Barbara. I took a job washing dishes and busing tables in the coffeehouse, so I could be there, and would beg permission to sing harmony with the guy who was singing onstage. That was the first time I ever got on a stage in front of people.
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The Wellcome Foundation offered me the chance to establish a small academic research unit, modestly funded, but with total independence. The real opportunity, however, came from King's College, London.
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I have always been very rebellious and gone against the grain. I've always challenged the standards set before me.
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'Mr. and Mrs. Smith' - every scene is from those characters' point of view. They're in literally every scene, very unusual in a big studio film.
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Solitude is good in the evening. Dublin is a quiet city when you get to a certain age, when your friends settle down and have kids. Nothing much happens here.
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It was 1939. There was no money or jobs around. I did my parents a favor and joined the Navy.
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Drama is all about the moment of ultimate conflict for a person.
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I was pretty sure I lacked the wisdom to be the commencement speaker, but after stewing over the idea for about 48 hours, I decided that if the senior class at the University of Wisconsin wants me to come speak, I'll do whatever they ask me. I love that school.
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When you win, nothing hurts.
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'Ever seen a leaf - a leaf from a tree?' 'Yes.' I saw one recently - a yellow one, a little green, wilted at the edges. Blown by the wind. When I was a little boy, I used to shut my eyes in winter and imagine a green leaf, with veins on it, and the sun shining ...' 'What's this - an allegory?' "No; why? Not an allegory - a leaf, just a leaf. A leaf is good. Everything's good.'
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Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you're just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric.
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Informal conversation is probably the oldest mechanism by which opinions on products and brands are developed, expressed, and spread.
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Almost all rich veins of original and striking speculation have been opened by systematic half-thinkers.
