Stanley Kubrick Quotes

I have always enjoyed dealing with a slightly surrealistic situation and presenting it in a realistic manner. I've always liked fairy tales and myths, magical stories. I think they are somehow closer to the sense of reality one feels today than the equally stylized 'realistic' story in which a great deal of selectivity and omission has to occur in order to preserve its 'realist' style.

Stanley Kubrick

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• Fear is... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Fear
  • Kind
  • Born

• If I was a condiment, I'm gonna go ahead and say I would be Sriracha, because I go well with other things. I'm too much for some people, and hipsters like me.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • People
  • Say
  • Ahead

• Some children are tackling tough times without the support that can help them because the adults in their life are scared to ask.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Life
  • Children
  • Help

• In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King's, especially the discovery of French and German literature.

  

  Patrick White
  • Life
  • Literature
  • King

• The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Past
  • Action
  • Comforting

• I've actually had a copilot come out of the cockpit on a trip from L.A. to New York and ask me about Charles Manson.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Me
  • New
  • New York

• Before 'This is Our Youth', I did a week of table reading 'Airline Highway' at Steppenwolf in Chicago while the author, Lisa D'Amour, workshopped it.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Reading
  • Author
  • Chicago

• I have no television - I hate it.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
  • Hate
  • Television

• Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.

  

  Samuel Johnson

• American exceptionalism is a reaction to the inability of people to understand global complexity or important issues like American energy dependency. Therefore, they search for simplistic sources of comfort and clarity. And the people that they are now selecting to be, so to speak, the spokespersons of their anxieties are, in most cases, stunningly ignorant.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • People
  • Important
  • American

• Perhaps the biggest appreciation adjustment we need is toward the millions of men and women we call stepparents. We have taken for granted especially the stepparents who are raising no children of their own, and receiving no income from a significant other, but who have nevertheless chosen to invest love, time and money in children.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Time
  • Men
  • Women

• Our economy has been at risk by investment schemes aimed at making not just a few, but many extra dollars, and we need to start insisting on the right rules and transparency so this doesn't happen again.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Risk

• We were the first country to attempt and to succeed in rolling back the frontiers of socialism, which is the first cousin to communism.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • Country
  • Cousin

• I'm trying to build something where people will go every day.

  

  Max Levchin
  • People
  • Trying

• So many stories have been told about Black Lives Matter. The beauty of building out a decentralized network, the beauty of building out something that's a hashtag, is that so many people can take it and run with it. The bad part about that is so many folks can take it and run with it - and misuse it and co-opt it.

  

  Patrisse Cullors
  • People
  • Bad
  • Black

• I am convinced that the public, large majority of the Greek people, realize that policies pursued in the past and the market practices have to be changed, in order to improve the prospects of the Greek economy. So there is, I think, strong public support despite the increases in social tensions.

  

  Lucas Papademos
  • People
  • Past
  • Strong

• I always try to work hard and get things done as soon as possible, but never at the loss of quality of the product.

  

  Nicholas James Murphy
  • Work
  • Done
  • Quality

• The picture is a self-sufficient work of art. It is not connected to anything outside.

  

  Kurt Schwitters
  • Work
  • Art
  • Picture

• I'm trying to do the best I can. I'm not concerned with tomorrow, but with what goes on today.

  Mark Spitz
  • Trying
  • Today

• There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.

  

  Jonas Salk
  • Hope
  • Reality
  • Wish

• If you don’t have a plan, you will fail, and you can quote me.” You need a definite plan, it should be written down, and it should dictate, with military precision, the moves that you will be taking. Napoleon Hill said, “First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Reality
  • Military
  • Organization

• A good style must have an air of novelty, at the same time concealing its art.

  

  Aristotle
  • Time
  • Good
  • Art

• I have always enjoyed dealing with a slightly surrealistic situation and presenting it in a realistic manner. I've always liked fairy tales and myths, magical stories. I think they are somehow closer to the sense of reality one feels today than the equally stylized 'realistic' story in which a great deal of selectivity and omission has to occur in order to preserve its 'realist' style.

  

  Stanley Kubrick
  • Today
  • Reality
  • Style