Ernest Shackleton Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
The whole Hollywood thing where people want to put me into this 'quirky-fashionista, daughter of' category makes me mad because it's promoting something that I don't believe in, and it's not who I am.
-
I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
-
Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.
-
Some guys play with their heads. That's okay. You've got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body.
-
As an actor, I still don't really know exactly what I am doing most of the time.
-
I don't ever want to be a person that I'm not. A lot of girls fall into the trap where they are trying to impress other people, and that's the time when they lose themselves.
-
Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
-
It's good that I put my personal ego aside. My basketball ego was, 'Why we negotiating?' But my personal ego didn't take it personal. I put my personal ego aside a little bit.
-
The average Englishman has no idea of the dynamism in the music scene here.
-
Oh God, don't envy me, I have my own pains.
-
Keeping house is as unpleasant and filthy as coal mining, and the pay's a lot worse.
-
Quotation, n. The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. The words erroneously repeated.
-
Study the field that you want to get into and know everything about it.
-
Maine people have a live-and-let-live philosophy, and tend to be fair and open-minded.
-
You can do too much and oversell your market.
-
I don't want, under any circumstances, to see in 'Haaretz' a picture of a woman with a baby in her arms crying while policemen deport her.
-
I've always enjoyed feeling a connection to the avant-garde, such as Dada and surrealism and pop art. The only thing the artist can do is be honest with themselves and make the art they want to make. That's what I've always done.
-
I don't care what anyone says. Being rich is a good thing.
-
If it can be dreamed, it can be done.
-
Don't you know, priests, why our sermons do not touch the people's heart? Because we do not preach to the eyes, only to the ears.
-
It is a quite special secret pleasure how the people around us fail to realize what is really happening to them.
-
Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
-
Forever is a long long time and time has a way of changing things.
-
Optimism is true moral courage.
