Sarah Bernhardt Quotes

The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd.

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• You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Day
  • Singing
  • Cold

• If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Time
  • Long
  • Country

• After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Hope
  • Smile
  • Seeing

• Cafe De Flore speaks of love, its joys, its pains and its dramas - to love and to lose. This story upset me, I was upside-down, in the depths of myself.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Story
  • Joys
  • Pains

• I admit I do have some drawbacks and limitations as a candidate. Although I am a professional comedian, some of my critics maintain that this is not enough. I cannot deny that I stand before you untested and inexperienced - I only spent two years in television, never as a romantic lead or a song and dance man.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Song
  • Man
  • Dance

• I'm sure there are some commercial applications for Twitter, but they don't really interest me. I mean, 140 characters? I am really not interested in Ashton Kutcher's daily walks. Not for me.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Twitter
  • Commercial
  • Applications

• I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Important
  • Myself
  • Ego

• I always played sports when I was young. I played football and baseball for eight years. I loved football.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Football
  • Sports
  • Baseball

• To be half-naked for a Greek mythology movie, it's a piece of art. You know, there's nothing vulgar in there.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Art
  • Movie
  • You

• My mother is the most supportive mother in the world, she's magical.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • World
  • She
  • Mother

• It's good to have a title that's not just one word. If you're gonna title it, you might as well try and say something.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Good
  • Try
  • One Word

• You can disagree without being disagreeable. That's always been my mantra.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • You
  • Always
  • Without

• Science today is a highly collaborative exercise, and to convert it into a contest, as the Nobel does, is a bad way to look at science.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Bad
  • Today
  • Science

• Our experience at Teach For America has been that the more people understand educational inequity, the more they want to do something about it.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • People
  • Experience
  • America

• If the people of Utah shall peacefully form a State Constitution tolerating polygamy, will the Democracy admit them into the Union?

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Democracy
  • Admit

• I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Better
  • Ground
  • Holding

• The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Art
  • Unique
  • Greatness

• So many Irish actors overplay that modesty because they're afraid people will judge them and say, 'The state of yer man, he thinks he's great,' or whatever.

  

  Jack Reynor
  • People
  • Great
  • Man

• I used to hitchhike a lot. I'd come home on the train from New York, and there'd be no cabs, but people would pick me right up and take me to my door because they recognised me. It was like a car service. I never really had a bad experience hitchhiking.

  

  John Waters
  • People
  • Up
  • Home

• We don’t break setups, or light a fire. We just point out to the foreman of that work center which job we would prefer he gets to next.

  

  Eliyahu M. Goldratt
  • Job
  • Fire
  • Setups

• But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memory the things that vanish, that are taken away. We fix them in our minds forever by yearning, by pain, by crying out. Pain, the pain that seems unbearable at the time, is memory's first imprinting step, the cornerstone of the temple we erect inside us in memory of the dead. Pain is part of memory, and memory is a God-given gift.

  

  Sue Miller
  • Mind
  • Remember
  • Pain

• I know one thing - if I didn't have TV and theatre and radio, the world would be a much more boring place.

  

  Rupert Penry-Jones
  • World
  • Theatre
  • Radio

• The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd.

  

  Sarah Bernhardt
  • Ideas
  • Theatre
  • Crowd