George Pierce Baker Quotes
Sensitive, responsive, eagerly welcomed everywhere, the drama, holding the mirror up to nature, by laughter and by tears reveals to mankind the world of men.
Quotes to Explore
-
We lived in Atlanta for a couple of years, and had a lot of fun, but my best work happens when I isolate myself. It's all about turning inward.
-
We were descended from royalty.
-
After spending three years of my life looking into this, I am more convinced than ever that the U.S. government's responsibility for the drug problems in South Central Los Angeles and other inner cities is greater than I ever wrote in the newspaper.
-
I'm encouraged because you pick up any food magazine and there's two or three recipes involving Indian spices.
-
I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
-
I remember in particular my first victory when I achieved a very fast time in what were perfect conditions but since then the wind has always been a factor against me.
-
As scary as it is, I like making real, direct eye contact with people from the stage. In a sense, it's like modeling: that feeling of locking in and projecting some kind of emotion to try to captivate people.
-
I tell my students, even if you are an opinion journalist, your opinion should be based on facts.
-
Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
-
Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
-
I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
-
We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.
-
I'd be interested to read Gull's paper on it, and I wish Alan would put it in somewhere. It gives him a relevance to our times, which he doesn't otherwise have. Gull, I mean, not Alan.
-
In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
-
There's no way to know the motives of another person totally, even a person that you know very well.
-
Sometimes I thank God... for cheeseburgers.
-
More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other's well-being, is source of happiness.
-
I don't have a big thing about leaving my mark or being historic.
-
Though I technically come from a film family, my father had stopped making films even before my brother and I were born. So I did not really grow up in a filmi environment. And when I was growing up, becoming an actress was still quite a taboo. And you may not believe this, but even my father did not want me to join films.
-
All I had to do was go out and perform. One of the hardest things was doing those back flips, where you had to jump up and land on the top rope. It's precision movement.
-
I have a band that I started with a buddy of mine, a Vietnam veteran pal named Kimo Williams from Chicago.
-
I call horses 'divine mirrors' - they reflect back the emotions you put in. If you put in love and respect and kindness and curiosity, the horse will return that.
-
At 90, I'm still working a couple of dates a month. My mind is very sharp on the stage, so why not? This may sound corny, but I do it because people - young and old - still come to see me, and they're very enthusiastic about my work. They treat me like the Godfather.
-
Sensitive, responsive, eagerly welcomed everywhere, the drama, holding the mirror up to nature, by laughter and by tears reveals to mankind the world of men.
