Ian Hamilton Finlay Quotes

As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes.

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• Sundance is going to be a defining moment in my life. But the unfortunate thing about Sundance is, when you have a film there, you can't have the opportunity to see other films.

  

  Gavin O'Connor
  • Life
  • Opportunity
  • Moment

• I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Business
  • Find
  • Act

• Love should be an inspiration, not an obligation.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Love
  • Inspiration
  • Obligation

• Lord of the Rings made me realize that I'm not interested in doing anyone else's work.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Work
  • Lord
  • Interested

• I've had to fight for roles and I've lost a hundred roles, but 'Smoking' and 'Smith' were phone calls. That's the dream.

  

  Adam Brody
  • Dream
  • Lost
  • Fight

• There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • World
  • Man
  • Old Man

• I think we have to pay attention to the Arab masses not just in the Gulf States, but also in the hinterlands.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Think
  • Attention
  • Just

• I like it when my wife is in her jeans, with very little makeup. But, I also appreciate the range - the different ways she can look. The moment she walks out all dressed up and... whoa! That's always good.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Up
  • Good
  • Different

• I'm proud of my hard work. Working hard won't always lead to the exact things we desire. There are many things I've wanted that I haven't always gotten. But, I have a great satisfaction in the blessings from my mother and father, who instilled a great work ethic in me both personally and professionally.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Work
  • Great
  • Mother

• I got into politics because I was tired of complaining.

  

  Patrick Murphy
  • Politics
  • Tired
  • Complaining

• Sometimes it's so weird just to do an interview. This morning I was back in my parents' house, with my brother, and we went for a jog together, then had breakfast as a family. And a couple of hours later I'm wearing high heels and a dress and makeup, and talking about my job.

  

  Carey Mulligan
  • Family
  • Job
  • Together

• The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • Life
  • Man
  • Lost

• What I'd like to pass on to my children is the thirst for knowledge. It's something I experience every day that I learned from my father. He always taught me that no matter how long you've done something, you can always learn something new and be better at what you do.

  

  Francesco Quinn
  • Long
  • Children
  • Done

• I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Protect
  • Harm

• I don't deny the importance of genetics. However, the fact that I might be altruistic isn't because I have a gene for altruism; the fact that I do something for my children at some cost to myself comes from a history that has operated on me.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Children
  • History
  • Myself

• Behavior used to be reinforced by great deprivation; if people weren't hungry, they wouldn't work. Now we are committed to feeding people whether they work or not. Nor is money as great a reinforcer as it once was. People no longer work for punitive reasons, yet our culture offers no new satisfactions.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• I tell you, 'Firefly'? Best job I ever had. Heartbroken when it was canceled, but had it not been canceled, I never would have gotten 'Serenity'. I think 'Serenity' is the most incredible thing I've ever been able to actually get my hands on and do. I can't even tell you how much love I have for that project.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Love
  • Job
  • Best

• If America don't come around, we're gonna' burn it down.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • America
  • Down
  • Burn

• All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex and vital.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Art
  • Really

• Conflicts between nations will continue to arise. The real issue is whether they are to be resolved by force, or by resort to peaceful methods and procedures, administered by impartial institutions.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Real

• I visited the Chinese side last year. The Chinese are in a constant state of military readiness. They have all their nuclear weapons in the area, presumably trained on targets across the border.

  

  Harrison Salisbury
  • Military
  • Chinese
  • Year

• If I played characters who were like me, I'd be super bored.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Like
  • Bored
  • Characters

• I'm well aware that I have been described in some quarters as being 'enigmatic, taciturn, prickly, explosive and forbidding'. Well, I have my moods like anyone else; I won't deny it.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Like
  • Being
  • Well

• As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • Like
  • Sometimes
  • Concrete