Errol Flynn Quotes

By instinct I'm an adventurer; by choice I'd like to be a writer; by pure, unadulterated luck, I'm an actor.

Errol Flynn

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• I remember starting out and covering songs.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Remember
  • Songs
  • Starting

• Mark Twain cannot be defined.

  

  Hal Holbrook
  • Mark
  • Mark Twain
  • Twain

• It may be that Tolstoy and Virginia Woolf were sitting around fretting about their Amazon reviews or their pre-pub whatever, but I kind of doubt it. I don't think that's how the work probably got made.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Work
  • May
  • Think

• You learn from the things that happen in your career. You get up and down. You never give up. All the things that happened in my career, thank God it happened early rather than late in my career.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Up
  • God
  • Career

• We don't have any power other than our intellect and our hearts.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Power
  • Hearts
  • Other

• I love helping out good people who are doing good things.

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • People
  • Good
  • Love

• I believe you are more believing in the Bible than I. I am not, and, you are much happier than I. I must say that so often in earlier times when I saw people of the lower classes, simple manual laborers who could believe so rightly with their hearts, I always envied them, and now tell me how does one begin this?

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • People
  • Believe
  • Simple

• Some terror in the swishing tall grass seemed added to that of the diabolically pounding sea, and I started up crying aloud and disjointedly, 'Tiger? Tiger? Is it Tiger? Beast? Beast? Is it a Beast that I am afraid of?'

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Up
  • Sea
  • Crying

• The principles of pleasure are not firm and stable. They are different in all mankind, and variable in every particular with such a diversity that there is no man more different from another than from himself at different times.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Different
  • Diversity

• The idea of storage as a solution of economic problems at least has the support of common sense.It is diametrically opposed to the topsy-turvy Alice-in-Wonderland reasoning that has marked so much of our depression thinking and policy.

  

  Benjamin Graham
  • Thinking
  • Support
  • Depression

• Has venido a este mundo que no entiende nada sin palabras, casi sin palabras.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• I once threw a water balloon on a girl because I caught her cheating on me. She was kissing my friend and I thought, 'Oh, this can't be happening.' It was bad and I was much older than you think throwing a water balloon. I was 14.

  

  Breckin Meyer
  • Girl
  • Friend
  • Kissing

• There's the pressure of being a No. 1 on the call sheet, being a lead actor. There's almost this feeling like being captain of the team. You want to put a bit of energy into actually setting a good example.

  

  Joel Edgerton
  • Good
  • Feeling
  • Energy

• Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'

  

  Max Planck
  • Work
  • Science
  • Words

• Edge will be missed. It was an honor to share the ring with him, and compete against him.

  

  Charlie Haas
  • Honor

• Who's to say because you're just a basketball player, or you are a basketball player, who's to say you can't chime in on other subjects or other important topics?

  

  Jaylen Brown
  • Important
  • Player
  • Basketball

• The union movement has been the best middle class job creating program that America has ever had, and it doesn't cost the government a dime.

  

  Andy Stern
  • Job
  • America

• If you can walk into a set and feel the reality of it, then immediately you're not having to work to bring yourself into the character.

  

  Jerome Flynn
  • Work
  • Character
  • Reality

• Alice: "How long is forever?" White Rabbit: "Sometimes, just one second."

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Forever
  • Second

• I probably am a cranky writer, but I am actually a fairly nice, normal person. Since I'm a grouchy writer, of course I have friends whose books are doing way better than mine.

  

  Sarah Vowell
  • Book
  • Funny
  • Nice

• It is difficult to be a good noncommissioned officer. If it had been easy, they would have given it to the officer corps.

  

  William A. Connelly
  • Difficult
  • Army
  • Given

• Once upon a time, a historian told me that the most important choice a new historian could make was of his or her specialist subject. Most of the good stuff was far too overcrowded, so you had to pick about in the exotic and extinct. His recommendations were the Picts or the Minoans, because hardly anything was known about them and you could spend a happy lifetime of speculation.

  

  Adrian Anthony Gill
  • Important
  • History
  • Choices

• By instinct I'm an adventurer; by choice I'd like to be a writer; by pure, unadulterated luck, I'm an actor.

  

  Errol Flynn
  • Choices
  • Actors
  • Luck