Oscar Wilde Quotes
In England people actually try to be brilliant at breakfast. That is so dreadful of them! Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
Quotes to Explore
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Turn your attention for a while away from the worries and anxieties. Remind yourself of all your many blessings.
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I do not have bad days. I don't wake up in the morning and think that I'm going to get AIDS. I don't dream bad dreams about it. If I did, I'd be giving in to the negativity.
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Whenever I dream about flying, it's the best feeling in the world.
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We tend in this country to talk about Democrats and Republicans, and think there's little group over there called Independents that's maybe 2%. That is not the case, and it has not been the case for most of modern American history.
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Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups.
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The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.
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Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.
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It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.
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Death may simply be an alteration in consciousness, a transition for continued life in a nonmaterial form.
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I know: I am a freakish geek. Or is that a geekish freak?
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In Sierra Leone last year there was just the two of us hanging out of a helicopter and, when we were in Bosnia, I drove an armoured vehicle, thousands of miles.
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I was a good bartender. I wouldn't say I was the best bartender in New York, but I could hold my own.
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When I go into the studio, I completely detach. I let my emotions come out.
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I appreciate the constant evolution in refining food, but not in making food gimmicky.
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In China, you have to have a strong leader for a business to get anything done.
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Intimacy is something to be cherished, and intimacy is not something to be afraid of.
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In art and life we're always reading bodies and behaviors (and skies and skylines or whatever), constructing brief and shifting coherences, and I guess I want to capture that process of characterization and re-characterization instead of offering up a few stable, easily-summarized individuals.
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Being friends with anyone for 30 years is no easy task - people change, they drift apart, they move on.
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I don't want to write things that people don't want to read. I would have no pleasure in producing something that sold 600 copies but that was considered very wonderful. I would prefer to sell 20,000 copies because the readers loved it. When I write books I don't actually think about the market in that way. I just tell myself the story. I don't think I'm talking to a 10-year-old boy or a six-year-old girl. I just write on the level the story seems to call for.
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You have to lead by example. You have to be the calmest person in the room. You have to be very open. I think the qualities of a director are to enable and to find the best in everybody.
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I don't want to go around like some kind of bleeding giant or whatever, or thinking I'm a big deal, because it doesn't help you do your work. I think people like Hemingway got into an awful lot of trouble that way.
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In England people actually try to be brilliant at breakfast. That is so dreadful of them! Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
