Ruth Gordon Quotes

Aim above morality. If you apply that to life, then youre bound to live life fully.

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• I've never used my weight to get a laugh. That is, used my size as the subject for humor. You never saw me stuck in a door-way or stuck in a chair.

  

  Fatty Arbuckle
  • Way
  • Humor
  • Laugh

• I never considered the working class anything other than something to get out of.

  

  Dalton Trumbo
  • Never
  • Working
  • Class

• Along with our friends in the GCC, the first order of business is stability. Beyond the imperative of stability, the most important priority is job creation for all Bahrainis.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • Important
  • Business
  • Job

• The VA does a lot of good things, but determining if a firm is a small business is not one of them.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Good
  • Business
  • Small

• Walt Disney got away with portraying me in the light that they were portraying me in. I have always been a fighter, so... But I have no regrets, man. It's just like God brought me through the drugs, I know he'll bring me through this.

  

  Ike Turner Ike & Tina Turner
  • God
  • Man
  • Light

• People will tell you that you can't do it, no matter what you are trying to do, so you just have to really keep at it.

  

  Madisen Beaty
  • People
  • Trying
  • Matter

• My opinion on who's wrong or who's right has nothing to do with the fact that we have to bring together people who are against each other, to transform antagonism into cooperation.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • People
  • Together
  • Opinion

• In design as in life, smart can also mean wise, kind, inspiring - and cost-effective. And that has a charm all its own.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Life
  • Design
  • Wise

• You can be powerful without being loud and aggressive.

  

  Ed Skrein
  • You
  • Powerful
  • Aggressive

• I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Famous
  • Driving
  • Prison

• The family is a court of justice which never shuts down for night or day.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Family
  • Night
  • Day

• I'm one of the few adults lucky enough to love their job. And when you've got bills to pay, you get on with it! I like challenges.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Love
  • Job
  • Challenges

• Women are often worried about how they look, and that's not superficial. We know that our appearance has nothing to do with how smart, creative, or hardworking we are, but it plays powerfully into what society decides we are worth.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Women
  • Society
  • Smart

• A different script calls for different things. It always takes me a long time to get to know the part, and know the logic behind the words. I have to be with the script for quite a long time before things start to fall into place, before they become part of the character.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Time
  • Different
  • Long

• A destruction only man can provoke, only man can prevent. Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures, it is our gift to each other.

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • God
  • Remember
  • Peace

• Don't you find it rather heavy, to have everything really in front of you – all the people who are going to matter, whom you haven't met yet, all the choices you are going to have to make, everything you might achieve, and all the possible failures – unreal now? The future flaps round my head like a cloud of midges.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • People
  • Future
  • Choices

• It’s like losing gravity and falling into space – the moment of pitching headlong when the endlessness of space asserts itself and there is no more down, only an eternity of up, and you realize you can fall forever and never run out of stars.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Space
  • Moment
  • Stars

• Therefore Lord, not only are you that than which a greater cannot be thought but you are also something greater than can be thought.

  

  Anselm of Canterbury
  • Lord

• A fool's bolt is soon shot.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Fool
  • Shots
  • Folly

• I was a dancer of no repute. But dance taught me a lot. You walk into a dance studio knowing you have to walk out with a dance. You improvise.

  

  Dan Phillips
  • Dance
  • Knowing
  • Taught

• Students and scholars of all kinds and of every age aim, as a rule, only at information, not insight. They make it a point of honour to have information about everything, every stone, plant, battle, or experiment and about all books, collectively and individually. It never occurs to them that information is merely a means to insight, but in itself is of little or no value.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Books
  • Students
  • Aim

• There is such a thing as honest pride and self-respect.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Pride
  • Self-respect

• Aim above morality. If you apply that to life, then youre bound to live life fully.

  

  Ruth Gordon
  • Morality
  • Aim
  • Bounds