Paul Newman (Paul Leonard Newman) Quotes

Choose between yesterday and tomorrow.

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• The legacy of the fairy story in my brain is that everything will work out. In fiction it would be very hard for me, as a writer, to give a bad ending to a good character, or give a good ending to a bad character. That's probably not a very postmodern thing to say.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Good
  • Work
  • Character

• The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Little
  • Matters
  • Field

• The attitude and identity that we want to play with doesn't change.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Change
  • Attitude
  • Identity

• Angels possess greater powers than do human beings.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Human
  • Human Beings
  • Angels

• You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Work
  • Girl
  • Yourself

• Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Political
  • Organization

• In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.

  

  Sallust
  • Opinion
  • King
  • Overcome

• The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Business
  • Earth
  • Rights

• If people still trust me with a funny line, then that is fine. If that is what gets me work.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • People
  • Work
  • Funny

• Each album takes two or two-and-a-half years to finish between recording and touring. It's like being with an old boyfriend every single night watching the same things on TV. There is a world out there going on that I'm missing.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • World
  • Night
  • Single

• We can climb mountains with self-love.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Mountains
  • Climb
  • Self-Love

• I find British men very gentlemanly... like opening doors. There is a certain chivalry about British men which I like, and I'm a sucker for an accent.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Men
  • Find
  • Doors

• The vice presidential candidate does not usually make much difference at the polls. But that may be changing as voters become more aware that the understudy must be ready to take over if needed.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • May
  • Difference
  • Presidential

• I accrued anger from people's low opinion of me and my work, and for the work I might be capable of.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • People
  • Work
  • Opinion

• I'm going to trust my instincts when something's wrong.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Trust
  • Wrong
  • Instincts

• I have to say, I do love the Ovation guitars. If I had one guitar to play, it would be that one, and it's got nothing to do with having my name on it. I absolutely rely on it.

  

  Kaki King
  • Play
  • Having
  • Rely

• This is a great continent. I went to primary school on this continent, secondary school, university. I've worked on this continent, and I think that it's a great disservice that, for whatever reason, people have usurped an imagery of Africa that is absolutely incorrect.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • People
  • Great
  • School

• They took away time, and they gave us the clock.

  

  Abdullah Ibrahim
  • Time
  • Away
  • Clock

• If you set your bar at 'amazing' it's awfully difficult to start. Your first paragraph, sketch, formula, sample or concept isn't going to be amazing. Your tenth one might not be either. Confronted with the gap between your vision of perfect and the reality of what you've created, the easiest path is no path. Shrug. Admit defeat. Hit delete. One more reason to follow someone else and wait for instructions. Of course, the only path to amazing runs directly through not-yet-amazing. But not-yet-amazing is a great place to start, because that's where you are.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Reality
  • Perfect
  • Reason

• Mother is a verb, not a noun.

  

  Shonda Rhimes
  • Verbs
  • Nouns

• Our thoughts about the future go far toward creating it; our minds and hears are like filaments taht connect today to tomorrow, they are conduits for either the status quo or the emergence of different, hopefully more loving, possibilities. How we think and how we behave determine where we are going.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Different
  • Future
  • Today

• Painting becomes interesting when it becomes timeless.

  

  Peter Doig
  • Interesting
  • Painting

• Choose between yesterday and tomorrow.

  

  Paul Newman
  • Tomorrow
  • Yesterday