Jonathan Demme Quotes

As a kid, a little kid, I loved going to the movies, and now I love making movies.

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• There was a time when no difficult subjects were ever aired in the 'Lady', and sadly, life isn't like that.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Life
  • Time
  • Difficult

• Networking is never easier than when people are coming to you.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • People
  • You
  • Networking

• Art is inspiring. Walking into a gallery, or when the lights go up on a stage; that thrill of getting something that has nothing to do with acquisition.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Up
  • Art
  • Walking

• When grand plans for scientific and defence technologies are made, do the people in power think about the sacrifices the people in the laboratories and fields have to make?

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • People
  • Power
  • Think

• It's always, 'Are you the runner girl?' I say, 'My name is Sally actually.' I used to always get that at school as well, 'Are you the runner girl?' I'm not even the runner girl, I'm a hurdler.

  

  Sally Pearson
  • School
  • Girl
  • Name

• Sleep is the best meditation.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Best
  • Sleep
  • Dreams

• She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).

  

  O. Henry
  • Woman
  • Act
  • Invisible

• I have an instinct to want to be part of a group of people. I feel safe there. That's why I was in school for so long.

  

  Laura Linney
  • People
  • Long
  • School

• Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Important
  • You
  • Memory

• If I do decide to review a product, I sometimes negotiate with a company the timing of the review but never its outcome or tone. I sometimes strive to be the first to publish a review, but I never promise a good review in exchange for that timing.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Good
  • Sometimes
  • Promise

• If we could create invention capitalism, that would be a helluva legacy, that would be a helluva thing to do... We could actually turbocharge the rate at which the world invents things.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • World
  • Legacy
  • Capitalism

• Georgia Tech beat us and Mississippi Southern tied us last year, and Texas beat us after we had the game won. We only played about five games the way we were capable of playing and lost one of those.

  

  Bear Bryant
  • Game
  • Lost
  • Year

• I remember being about eight and watching 'Pollyanna' with Hayley Mills. I looked at my mum and said, 'Mum, I want to be Pollyanna.' She said, 'You're going to have to make yourself cry if you want to be an actress.' So I turned my head away, and when I turned it back I was in floods of tears.

  

  Laura Haddock
  • Remember
  • Tears
  • Actress

• And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Women
  • Think
  • Comedy

• We have to keep the momentum going in the economy. And we have to make sure that we give small businesses as much cash and liquidity as possible so they have the confidence to hire that next worker.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Small
  • Confidence
  • Momentum

• I believe I could commit a crime. We all can. It depends on which situations we find ourselves in. In despair, I would steal food if my children were hungry.

  

  Karin Fossum
  • Believe
  • Children
  • Food

• It is difficult to remember just how formal middle-class life was in the 1930's and '40s. I wore a suit and tie at home from the age of 18. One dressed for breakfast. One lived in a very formal way, and emotions were not paraded. And my childhood was not unusual.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Life
  • Home
  • Remember

• You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• I still haven't heard anything from Apple about my hacks. There is a tool based on my work reverse-engineering Apple's FairPlay called jhymn that's been hosted on a U.S. server for over a year and nothing has happened.

  

  Jon Johansen
  • Work
  • Engineering

• At 15 I set my heart on learning; At 30 I firmly took my stand; At 40 I had no delusions; At 50 I knew the Mandate of Heaven; At 60 my ear was attuned; At 70 I followed my heart's desire without overstepping the boundaries of right.

  

  Confucius
  • Desire
  • Learning
  • Mandate Of Heaven

• I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Love
  • Acting
  • Theater

• There's no way I would have got to see so much of the world, with my humble background, without modelling. We were penniless and hungry for most of my youth. I washed the sheets in the bathtub in my bedroom and hung them out of the window on the clothes line, which in winter was difficult as the sheets would freeze and get stuck to the line.

  

  Carmen Dell'Orefice
  • World
  • Winter
  • Humble

• Since a week ago last Saturday, we can no longer expect them to defend the law of God. These sects will work out the very logic of their ways, and in 50 or 100 years there will be only the Catholic Church and paganism. We will be left to fight the battle alone, and we will.'

  

  Fulton J. Sheen
  • Work
  • God
  • Law

• As a kid, a little kid, I loved going to the movies, and now I love making movies.

  

  Jonathan Demme