Nicolas Roeg (Nicolas Jack Roeg) Quotes

We're all influenced by everything unless we're locked in an empty room.

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• Power is a tool, influence is a skill; one is a fist, the other a fingertip.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Power
  • Influence
  • Skill

• I never exercise, and I eat everything.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Never
  • Exercise
  • Everything

• Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Life
  • Everything
  • Kindness

• I'm not really the type of person who wears my heart on my sleeve. I keep everything inside.

  

  Taylor Dye
  • Heart
  • Person
  • Everything

• What the Greeks and Romans considered myths, we consider fairy tales. We can see how very clearly the myths, which emanated from all cultures, had a huge influence on the development of the modern fairy tale.

  

  Jack Zipes
  • See
  • Influence
  • Development

• I've been a big Bob Marley fan forever. Forever. Like big, huge. Bob Marley and the Beatles, that's my big, giant music influence. I can listen to them all the time.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Time
  • Music
  • Forever

• Among physicists and chemists, cold fusion - nuclear fusion at close to room temperature - enjoys a reputation about on par with creationism.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Cold
  • Reputation
  • Room

• I came to feel very, very sentimental about those sets, which is ludicrous, because they represent everything which is transitory and insubstantial. It's absurd that one should feel sentimental about timber and canvas.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Feel
  • Everything
  • Very

• Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Movies
  • Young
  • Influence

• Everything is produced by the workers, and the minute they try to get something by their unions they meet all the opposition that can be mustered by those who now get what they produce.

  

  Harry Bridges
  • Everything
  • Try
  • Now

• Men are taught that if we are not the ultimate provider, we are a complete failure. We have to be number one in everything we do. There is nothing more delusional or paralysing than what I have just described.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Men
  • Failure
  • Everything

• Everything I do today is because of what I did when I was 14.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Today
  • Everything
  • Because

• When I was 14, I would sit up in my room and write till my eyes would bleed.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Up
  • Eyes
  • Write

• Everything's cyclical. Having been raised by actors, I watched their careers, and the challenge is to take time off.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Time
  • Challenge
  • Everything

• You cannot underestimate the influence of Shakespeare.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Influence
  • Underestimate

• I'm not that obsessed with making representations of ugliness. Everything I've seen is beautiful.

  

  Otto Dix
  • Beautiful
  • Everything
  • Seen

• Art is Art. Everything else is everything else.

  

  Ad Reinhardt
  • Art
  • Everything
  • Else

• There's backlash about everything I do.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Everything
  • About
  • Backlash

• Let it simply be asked where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation deserts the oaths, which are the instruments of investigation in the Courts of Justice? And let us with caution indulge the opposition, that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that National morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

  

  George Washington
  • Mind
  • Reason
  • Justice

• We wear our names heavily. And though we have tried to escape their influence, they have seeped into us, and we find ourselves living their patterns again and again.

  

  Eleanor Brown
  • Influence
  • Names
  • Escape

• Awaken its powers, and it will respect itself.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Respect
  • Will
  • Awaken

• Most famous people get younger and younger. I sometimes ask myself that question: 'How come I'm the only person who's getting older?'

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Question
  • Younger
  • Famous People

• People say the customer is always right, but you know what - they're not. Sometimes they are wrong and they need to be told so.

  

  Michael O'Leary
  • Right
  • Customer
  • Told

• We're all influenced by everything unless we're locked in an empty room.

  

  Nicolas Roeg
  • Influence
  • Everything
  • Room