Paul Scofield Quotes

A book is worth a few francs; we Germans can afford to destroy those. We all may not appreciate artistic merit, but cash value is another matter.

Paul Scofield

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• If only one in 1,000 people that I talk to goes on to write a good book, that's one more good book that I've helped along... and maybe it will be a book I love myself five or 10 years down the line.

  

  Garth Nix
  • People
  • Good
  • Love

• I've grown up with girls that are like Precious. I've grown up with people that are like everyone that I read about in that book. And so years later, when I was given the role, I just felt a huge responsibility to show the reality of that situation and to show that we're not making it up.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • People
  • Up
  • Book

• There are very few fundamental shifts in global infrastructure that can happen in our life times. The financial infrastructure is one of them, and the Blockchain is changing the way we think about the transfer of value.

  

  Adam Draper
  • Life
  • Value
  • Financial

• One of the pleasantest things about book writing is that sometimes it brings one in touch with old friends.

  

  Rachel Field
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Friends

• It's easier to release an ebook than a print book.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Book
  • Easier
  • Print

• Then is when I decided to take it to Archie to see if they could do it as a comic book. I showed it to Richard Goldwater, and he showed it to his father, and a day or two later I got the OK to do it as a comic book.

  

  Dan DeCarlo
  • Book
  • Father
  • Day

• I read that book, 'Lonesome Dove,' and I told my agent that they were gonna make a miniseries out of it and I wanted to be in it. I didn't care what part.

  

  Barry Corbin
  • Book
  • Care
  • Wanted

• This object that we hold in our hands, a book... that tactile pleasure, it's just not going to go away.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Book
  • Hands
  • Pleasure

• The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Important
  • Book
  • Earth

• God values you simply because He created you. You are precious to Him, and your value will never change.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • Change
  • Value

• We don't have to think up a title till we get the doggone book written.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Up
  • Book
  • Think

• A great comic-book cover occurs when it gets a potential reader to pick the book up and start thumbing through it. That's a comic cover's job: Attract someone's attention, and persuade them to try the issue out.

  

  Adam Hughes
  • Up
  • Great
  • Job

• That is what we know how to do better than anyone else: We know how to maximize value for our projects. If the government would like to hire my services to maximize value for their stake, they should approach me. No problem.

  

  Dan Gertler
  • Problem
  • Government
  • Value

• To this day, if you ask me how I became a writer, I cannot give you an answer. To this day, if you ask me how a book is written, I cannot answer. For long periods, if I didn't know that somehow in the past I had written a book, I would have given up.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Up
  • Long
  • Book

• A Jesuit once wrote a note to Father Arrupe, his superior general, asking him about the relative value of communism, socialism and capitalism. Father Arrupe gave him a lovely reply. He said, 'A system is about as good or as bad as the people who use it.' People with golden hearts would make capitalism or communism or socialism work beautifully.

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• I think everyone feels alone in their sadness, and there's a certain value to hearing other people's sad stories.

  

  Brandon Stanton
  • People
  • Alone
  • Value

• I just don't want to talk about my personal life. I feel like it's mine, I'm not trying to promote it. It's nice to have things that are your own, that you value enough that you don't have to use to sell a movie.

  

  Jennifer Jason Leigh
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Movie

• The emergence of open Internet protocols for value exchange, today led by the global adoption of Bitcoin's blockchain, paves the way for value to move as freely as information and data move on the Internet today.

  

  Jeremy Allaire
  • Today
  • Value
  • Adoption

• The rights of the individual should be the primary object of all governments.

  

  Mercy Otis Warren
  • Government
  • Individual
  • Objects

• When I was a kid, and God was talking to me about music, I was like, 'Okay, I'll sing mainstream music,' because I was afraid to sing Christian music to alienate my friends. Honestly, it was going on 'Idol,' having that kind of exposure, that I realized there's something different about me. I just crave God being a part of every moment.

  

  Lauren Daigle
  • Music
  • God
  • Different

• Tears are as sweet as laughter to some natures.

  

  Jerome K. Jerome
  • Sweet
  • Tears
  • Laughter

• Computation, storage, and communications capacity are in the hands of practically every connected person - and these are the basic physical capital means necessary for producing information, knowledge and culture, in the hands of something like 600 million to a billion people around the planet.

  

  Yochai Benkler
  • People
  • Culture
  • Knowledge

• A book is worth a few francs; we Germans can afford to destroy those. We all may not appreciate artistic merit, but cash value is another matter.

  

  Paul Scofield
  • Book
  • Value
  • Merit