Ernest Hemingway Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.
-
As a result of 50 years of emancipation, feminine qualities were dying out or being transferred to the males. Pansies of both sexes were everywhere, not yet completely homosexual, but confused not knowing what they were. The result was a herd of unhappy sexual misfits... the women wanting to dominate and the men to be nannied.
-
You can't have integrity for breakfast, but try and keep it because it is perhaps the single most important word that defines not just writers but all human beings.
-
My father worked, and my mother played bridge. Every time I went out of the house, I was chauffeur-driven with my nanny next to me to stop me being kidnapped.
-
I'm just drawing it now. It's totally revolting. I'm sure you'll love it.
-
I think every actor wants to be an FBI or cop at one point.
-
There will be times when you just can't seem to land an acting job, and you feel like giving up. Don't! The only way to realise that dream is to keep working hard for it.
-
I can express gratitude for the simple act of being able to breathe in and breathe out. I can move away from darkness and depression to light and hope. I can be happy with who I am, not what I should be, or what I might have been, or what someone tells me I must be. I am me, the true me; you are you, the true you - and that's good. That's beautiful. That's enough.
-
Love on the rocks, ain't no surprise. Pour me a drink and I'll tell you some lies.
-
It just amazes me every time I have a debate with the ACLU on this. What would you want, to have innocent names made public?
-
A person who is keen to shake your hand usually has something up his sleeve.
-
Every time I create a character, I don't assume they speak like I do, even if they're Australian.
-
Sometimes the truth has difficulty breaching the city walls of our beliefs. A lie, dressed in the correct livery, passes through more easily.
-
I am a big fan of music in terms of storytelling device.
-
For any species to change, if they are unable and are unwilling to do so - I might, for example, have suggested to the dinosaurs that heavy armor and great size was a sinking ship, and that they do well to convert to mammal facilities - it would not lie in my power or desire to reconvert a reluctant dinosaur.
-
A big lie is more plausible than truth.
