Melvyn Douglas Quotes

It don't take long to kill things. Not like it does to grow.

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• They don't call it the Internet anymore, they call it cloud computing. I'm no longer resisting the name. Call it what you want.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Internet
  • Name
  • Cloud

• I have some girls who I look back on and I think, 'Wow, they were really horrible to me.' I would love an apology from a few girls, but whatever. I'm not holding any grudges. I'm over it.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Think
  • Girls
  • Horrible

• Over the years, humans have managed to incorporate nearly every element, light and weighty, common and obscure, into our daily lives. And given how small atoms are and how many of them there are all around us, it's almost certain that your body has at least brushed against an atom of every single natural element on the periodic table.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Small
  • Light
  • Single

• Working with Bill Cosby was incredible. I was lucky to be a part of that.

  

  Tatyana Ali
  • Working
  • Lucky
  • Incredible

• Americans call them hillbillies, rednecks, or white trash. I call them neighbors, friends, and family.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Trash

• Hemingway was a jerk.

  

  Harold Robbins
  • Jerk
  • Hemingway

• Actors aren't all the same. They have very different skills. There are actors of intellect who are very thoughtful about everything they do... and then there are actors of instinct who don't know what they're doing until the cameras roll... My father was actually quite thoughtful about what he did, while my mother was much more instinctual.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Different
  • Mother
  • Father

• It is not that I don't like contemporary country music because I do. I love it. I have recorded a lot and have had great success recording records that have not been very traditional country records.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Great
  • Music
  • Country

• Things were a lot simpler in Detroit. I didn't care about anything but boyfriends.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Care
  • Dating
  • Detroit

• Men who are not loyal to their wives are foolish.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Men
  • Loyal
  • Wives

• Young people are forced to mature sooner now than in the '40s. I was doing things at age 14 that guys in the movie were just beginning to do at 16 and 17.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • People
  • Movie
  • Age

• I love playing strong women, even if they're nuts.

  

  Karen Black
  • Women
  • Strong
  • Playing

• People seem good while they are oppressed, but they only wish to become oppressors in their turn: life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• Most directors have little lists in their heads of people they really want to work with.

  

  Alan Parker
  • People
  • Work

• The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.

  

  Claude Levi-Strauss
  • Wise

• Suffering is not good for the soul, unless it teaches you to stop suffering.

  

  Jane Roberts
  • Good
  • Soul
  • Stop

• To me, 'Warrior' was a real turning point - probably one of the greatest experiences I've ever had as an actor on set.

  

  Joel Edgerton
  • Real
  • Warrior

• We need to make sure that the things we are already working on turn out to do the things we believe they can do and creating value both for the world and ultimately for Google.

  

  Astro Teller
  • World
  • Believe
  • Value

• It seems like everybody's perception of me is very bipolar. To one group, it's overpaid, overrated; to another group, it's underpaid, underrated, underdog. It's funny to me because there's no real balance.

  

  Jeremy Lin
  • Real
  • Funny
  • Balance

• Of this they drank half a pint every day, and sometimes more or less, as it operated, by way of gentle physic. Two others had each two oranges and one lemon given them every day. These they ate with greediness, at different times, upon an empty stomach.

  

  James Lind
  • Different

• I've found that the more experts you have on a movie, the less control the director has.

  

  John Frankenheimer
  • Movie
  • Control

• Authority and place demonstrate and try the tempers of men, by moving every passion and discovering every frailty.

  

  Plutarch
  • Men
  • Passion
  • Moving

• Barcelona gave me everything, they took a chance on me when nobody else would. I never have any desire to play for anybody else, I will be here for as long as they want me.

  

  Lionel Messi
  • Long
  • Desire

• It don't take long to kill things. Not like it does to grow.

  

  Melvyn Douglas
  • Long
  • Grows