Henrik Ibsen Quotes
I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority.
Henrik Ibsen
Quotes to Explore
-
People go to movies on Saturday to get away from the war in Iraq and taxes and election news and pedophiles online and just go and have some fun. I like doing movies that are fun.
Samuel L. Jackson
-
As a working-class actor, leaving school with no qualifications, being a printer and then becoming an actor and then working with people who to a certain extent had had a leg up. I never had that advantage. It's less an artistic need to express myself and more a need to prove myself.
Eddie Marsan
-
I was 12 when it really hit me. I did children's theatre camp during the summers and played a fairy in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' The next summer, I played Clytemnestra in 'Agamemnon' and I was like, 'OK, this is amazing.'
Rachel McAdams
-
Nashville, there's people that are ten times more talented than me, ten times better singer than me, song writer than me, but for some reason you get the ball, and now - and now you run with it. And you do the best you can.
Garth Brooks
-
I believe accurately remembering - and honoring - our whole past is the first step in governing in a way that effectively represents the whole America.
Tammy Duckworth
-
I've never had a cold Christmas, as I always spend it back home in Australia.
Mallory Jansen
-
Even though I'm usually not conscious of it, I think drawing has always served a sort of therapeutic purpose in my life. There's something about the process of translating the messy chaos of real life into a clean, simple drawing that's always been comforting to me.
Adrian Tomine
-
If you pick up a ukulele, it will make you unbelievably happy.
Bette Midler
-
What if I said that every photograph I made was set up? From the photograph, you can't prove otherwise. You don't know anything from the photograph about how it was made, really.
Garry Winogrand
-
I get a thick book full of death, destruction, strife, and chaos. That's what I take with my morning tea.
Barack Obama
-
The building art is, in reality, always the spatial execution of spiritual decisions. It is bound to its times and manifests itself only in addressing vital tasks with the means of its times. A knowledge of the times, its tasks, and its means is the necessary precondition of work in the building art.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
-
I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.
Oscar Wilde
-
My clothes are built to show off the woman who wears them. I like them to be simple... to move well, to move with the times and a little ahead of the times.
Hattie Carnegie
-
In movies, you don't get reactions: Live, when you do a joke, you know in a second whether it's good or bad. But in a movie, since no one is allowed to laugh or do anything, when you're done with a scene, you're left asking, 'Was that funny?'
Carrot Top
-
As Ginny and Hermione moved closer to the rest of the family, Harry had a clear view of the bodies lying next to Fred: Remus and Tonks, pale and still and peaceful-looking, apparently asleep beneath the dark, enchanted ceiling.
Joanne Rowling
-
Never to have seen anything but the temperate zone is to have lived on the fringe of the world. Between the Tropic of Capricorn and the Tropic of Cancer live the majority of all the plant species, the vast majority of the insects, most of the strange ... quadrupeds, all of the great and most of the poisonous snakes and large lizards, most of the brilliantly colored sea fishes, and the strangest and most gorgeously plumaged of the birds.
David Fairchild
-
I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority.
Henrik Ibsen
