Peter O'Toole Quotes
I found him perhaps the least terrifying man I've ever met in the theater—because at first glance I could see through him and he could see through me, and he knew that I knew that he knew. Look, love, I've been bullied all my life by bigger experts than Larry Olivier, I can assure you, and he's just got to get in line.Peter O'Toole
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
Oscar Wilde -
By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.
Iain Banks -
To me, there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form – and local human passions and conditions and standards – are depicted as native to other worlds and universes.
H. P. Lovecraft -
Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
H. G. Wells -
Small businesses all across this nation are tired of the uncertainty created by Washington.
Sam Graves -
We're not going to make Evolution or any of our other products depend on Mono anytime in the near future.
Nat Friedman
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I've loved every minute I've spent in television. And I've had much more failure, as traditionally measured, than success in television. I've done four shows, and only one of them was the 'West Wing.'
Aaron Sorkin -
There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily!
Saint Francis de Sales -
We're seeing TV series that are as good as movies were in the '70s and '80s - shows like 'The Wire,' 'The Sopranos' and 'Breaking Bad.'
Tahar Rahim -
I never refused my help to any person black or white; and I liked the office nonetheless because there were neither fees nor salary connected with it.
Salmon P. Chase -
The future of the world's film industry is in China because we have 1.3 billion people.
Wang Jianlin -
He wanted to be who he was, not the person he would become if he lost the one trait that distinguished him from everybody else, no matter how perverse that decision seemed to others.
Iain Banks
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Only a thoughtless observer can deny that correspondences come into play between the world of modern technology and the archaic symbol-world of mythology.
Walter Benjamin -
The rainy Pleiads wester,Orion plunges prone,The stroke of midnight ceases,And I lie down alone.
A. E. Housman -
Both knowledge and wisdom extend man's reach. Knowledge led to computers, wisdom to chopsticks.
Alan Perlis -
The knowledge of past times and of the places on the earth is both an ornament and nutriment to the human mind.
Leonardo da Vinci -
I had three jobs in college. The best day of my life was when I paid off my student loans, on my own.
Jessica Seinfeld -
Difficult times require difficult decisions. But supporting this bill shouldn't be a difficult decision.
Jim Bunning
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I thought Mr. Millward never would cease telling us that he was no tea-drinker, and that it was highly injurious to keep loading the stomach with slops to the exclusion of more wholesome sustenance, and so give himself time to finish his fourth cup.
Anne Bronte -
I think films about men are often about characters who don't want to express their feelings. You're supposed to kind of admire them for not expressing their feelings. And I feel that's a bit dull. Women's stories often have stronger emotional content, which I enjoy doing. What I really love doing is mixing that with humor.
Nigel Cole -
I found him perhaps the least terrifying man I've ever met in the theater—because at first glance I could see through him and he could see through me, and he knew that I knew that he knew. Look, love, I've been bullied all my life by bigger experts than Larry Olivier, I can assure you, and he's just got to get in line.
Peter O'Toole