John Turturro Quotes

When I see these guys write all this macho stuff I want to smash their heads.

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• Advertising, music, atmospheres, subliminal messages and films can have an impact on our emotional life, and we cannot control it because we are not even conscious of it.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Life
  • Music
  • Control

• President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.

  

  Karen Mills
  • President
  • Priority
  • Top

• If I have a weakness, it's probably ice cream. That's where I get lax, sloppy. I'll sneak into the refrigerator at night and take two or three bites and put it back. Butter pecan. Only two or three bites, but it shows.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Night
  • Ice
  • Ice Cream

• It's super dope when you connect with something personally.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • You
  • Something
  • Dope

• There's the part of my life that the public and I share together. And there's the part that's mine to keep for myself. And that's mine. For me.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Life
  • Together
  • Myself

• One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.

  

  Man Ray
  • Power
  • Genius
  • His

• The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Time
  • Happy
  • Happiness

• The dominant invades the entire picture, as it were. In this way I seek to individualize the color, because I have come to believe that there is a living world of each color and I express these worlds.

  

  Yves Klein
  • World
  • Believe
  • Picture

• I was in my mid-teens when someone gave me a copy of 'Pears Encyclopaedia of Myth and Legends' as a birthday present. It sat on my shelves for many months before I looked at it. When I did, I couldn't stop reading it.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Stop
  • Reading
  • Present

• Pubescent girls, it seems, are manifestly more likely to exhibit extreme and bizarre psychological symptoms than are teenage boys.

  

  Caitlin Flanagan
  • More
  • Seems
  • Extreme

• The genealogy of fictional characters can become an obsession, like train-spotting, and should be firmly resisted.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Like
  • Become
  • Obsession

• The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • City
  • Now
  • British

• The Creator, in taking infinite pains to shroud with mystery His presence in every atom of creation, could have had but one motive - a sensitive desire that men seek Him only through free will.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Men
  • Free
  • Desire

• A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is – full of surprises.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Life
  • Story
  • Surprise

• That's why, when Alias came along, I knew I'd be OK if the show was on for five or six years because the writing was so good and the creative team was so strong.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Why

• A friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Friend
  • Talk
  • Mine

• In the busy haunts of men.

  

  Felicia Hemans
  • Men

• For the faithful, the patient, the hermetically pure, all the important things in this world - not life and death, perhaps, which are merely words, but the important things - work out rather beautifully.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Life
  • World
  • Work

• Hard systems are everything we're using right now - computers, phones, planes, the clothes you're wearing, the room you're in. Everything there involves 100% use of technology and expertise to make it, and nothing we make - including space exploration vehicles and so on - is complex. Everything we make is complicated. Nothing is self-renewing.

  

  Allan Savory
  • Space
  • Technology

• I'm an actor and it happened to go my way that day.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Way
  • Day
  • Actor

• Blind Willie Johnson is a pretty big vocal influence. He can be very harsh, like gargly, gruff vocals, but also just slip into some very delicate, vulnerable soft stuff. I like that combination.

  

  Benjamin Booker
  • Pretty

• To forgive and forget means to throw away dearly bought experience.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Experience
  • Means
  • Forgive

• No changing of place at a hundred miles an hour will make us one whit stronger, or happier, or wiser. There was always more in the world than man could see, walked they ever so slowly; they will see it no better for going fast. The really precious things are thought and sight, not pace. It does a bullet no good to go fast; and a man, if he be truly a man, no harm to go slow; for his glory is not at all in going, but in being.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Man
  • Wise
  • Glory

• When I see these guys write all this macho stuff I want to smash their heads.

  

  John Turturro