Sidney Lumet (Sidney Arthur Lumet) Quotes

It's art. It's commerce. It's heartbreaking and it's fun. It's a great way to live.

Sidney Lumet

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• It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • You
  • Funny
  • Rap

• The primary way that we know about what lives in the ocean is we go out and drag nets behind ships. And I defy you to name any other branch of science that still depends on hundreds-of-year-old technology. The other primary way is we go down with submersibles and remote- operated vehicles. I've made hundreds of dives in submersibles.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Science
  • Technology
  • Ocean

• At the beginning of a new project, often before I do any actual writing, I collect photos, quotes, song lyrics, and even objects that relate to the characters or the world I'm creating.

  

  Kami Garcia
  • World
  • Writing
  • Song

• One cannot be too careful in the selection of adjectives for descriptions. Words or compounds which describe precisely, and which convey exactly the right suggestions to the mind of the reader, are essential.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Mind
  • Words
  • Right

• There's such a fan base for 'Dark Shadows'. I remember watching the show as a kid, but I wasn't an ardent fan. I didn't run home from school to watch it.

  

  Jackie Earle Haley
  • School
  • Home
  • Remember

• I love to smoke things; there's usually something always in the pot outside. That smell of something in the smoker just reminds me of home.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Love
  • Home
  • Me

• If the same energy went into marketing movies to women as they do on the other demographics we might see more of a spike.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Women
  • Energy
  • Same

• I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Important
  • Nice
  • Woman

• To be here recovers from a state of soul, from a state of mind. I have the memory of the heart. I know what I received. I must have the will to give back to others.

  

  Jacky Ickx
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Soul

• We worked lightly even in the heaviest parts.

  

  Ingrid Thulin
  • Worked
  • Parts
  • Even

• It just so happens that my oldest and best friend is Bob James, the Grammy-winning great jazz pianist!

  

  Jack O'Brien
  • Great
  • Friend
  • Best

• The very fact that I became mayor in 1977 conveys how you can't figure out what the people will do. Nobody thought I would be elected. When I entered I got four percent of the vote in the first poll, four percent.

  

  Ed Koch
  • People
  • Thought
  • Vote

• Dance is my passion.

  

  Manju Warrier
  • Passion
  • Dance

• No universal selfishness can bring social good to all. Communism - the effort to give all men what they need and to ask of each the best they can contribute - this is the only way of human life.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Life
  • Good
  • Men

• I loved all of the 'Zenon' movies. Those were my jam mostly because of the fashion. I loved something about the space buns and the weird neon colors. I couldn't just wear that in real life because people would look weirdly at me, but maybe at a party or something.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• She had that irony in her eyes. Knowledge without wisdom. Power without purpose. Like me.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • She
  • Power
  • Knowledge

• The Byrds weren't rock n' roll guys. We were kinda like your Seekers... folkies who took it a step further.

  

  Chris Hillman The Byrds
  • Rock

• None of my movies have ever made any money, so it's not about commercial success for me. It's always the same thing. I want to create something valuable, something unusual and different that the world has never seen.

  

  Kelly Masterson
  • World
  • Different
  • Money

• I'm a good Jewish boy from Edison, New Jersey, so I went and saw 'Fiddler on the Roof' because you have to: that's part of your bar mitzvah experience.

  

  David Bryan Bon Jovi
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Boy

• A man walks into a bar, and he said OUCH, cause it was an iron bar.

  

  Tommy Cooper
  • Said
  • Causes
  • Bars

• What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything. It is a matter of making something beautiful, moving, or dramatic - this is by no means the same thing.

  

  Fernand Leger
  • Music
  • Art
  • Beautiful

• There are two indices of genuine art: it is inimitable and it is ineffable.

  

  Auguste Renoir
  • Art
  • Genuine

• I want to take IBM back to its roots.

  

  Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.

• It's art. It's commerce. It's heartbreaking and it's fun. It's a great way to live.

  

  Sidney Lumet
  • Art
  • Fun
  • Commerce