Stephen Dillane (Stephen John Dillane) Quotes

Am I melancholy? I certainly have moments. I like to think there's a capacity for joy as well.

Stephen Dillane

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• Research has shown that time pressure leads to tunnel vision and that people think more creatively when they are calm, unhurried and free from stress and distractions. We all know this from experience.

  

  Carl Honore
  • People
  • Time
  • Experience

• I'm proud to be among a bipartisan group of state attorneys general who consistently advocate against government infringement of Americans' Second Amendment rights.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Government
  • Proud
  • Group

• 'Sairat' is a film I absolutely loved. I have great regard for the movie and its film-maker. The movie blew my mind.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Movie

• Actively deciding to give to causes that move you deeply is far more fulfilling than the momentary gratification derived from signing a check and mailing it to a nonprofit about which you know little more than what's on the brochure they sent you.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • You
  • Know
  • Nonprofit

• There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Hair
  • Cure
  • Gray

• So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Success
  • Myself
  • Failure

• I think in spring, we don't want to wear makeup, we don't want to wear a ton of clothes, we just want everything to be easier.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Think
  • Spring
  • Makeup

• You can't write about an iconic Hollywood star of the sixties without bumping up against Elizabeth Taylor.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Up
  • Star
  • Write

• The scope of linguistics should be:

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure

• I am not an atheist but an earthiest.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Atheist

• Before creation Love was. After creation love is made. When love is consummated, creation will cease to be, and Love will be forever.

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • Forever

• I know you have a heavy heart, I can feel it when we kissSo many men stronger than meHave thrown their backs out trying to lift itBut me I'm not a gambleYou can count on me to splitThe love I sell you in the evening by the morning won't exist.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Men
  • Trying
  • Heart

• Surprizes are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.

  

  Jane Austen

• To hinder, besides, the farmer from selling his goods at all times to the best market, is evidently to sacrifice the ordinary laws of justice to an idea of public utility, to a sort of reasons of state; an act of legislative authority which ought to be exercised only, which can be pardoned only in cases of the most urgent necessity.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Justice
  • Sacrifice
  • Farmer

• We know what the Dixie flag represents and its heritage; the Civil War was fought over States rights.

  

  Gary Rossington Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • War

• There's something very special about seeing history so clearly in front of you through that architecture that you just don't get in the U.S. If I was asked to choose where I'd most like to live, I would always choose London.

  

  Charlie Cox
  • Live
  • History
  • Architecture

• I've known Kareem since I was kid. He lived in Manhattan, but my best friend used to go to high school with him, and he was in my house the day I graduated from high school in 1965.

  

  Billy Crystal
  • School
  • High
  • House

• We've always been into juicing. It's one of the things that my wife likes to do. She's a vegetarian, so she loves to juice. And I'm a big health freak - well, when I feel like being it.

  

  Demetrious Johnson
  • She
  • Health
  • Wife

• You can fix things with digital technology and there's a temptation to fix everything or make it perfect and what you're losing there is the human performance that may not be perfect but there may be magic in it. You can make it perfect but music doesn't sound good perfect for some reason.

  

  Joe Walsh The Eagles
  • Temptation
  • Digital technology
  • Human Performance

• There have been so many great moments in golf that you even forget some of them.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Great
  • Moments
  • Golf

• Throughout my career as a lawyer, teacher and labor leader, books have remained my constant companion - stuffed into a briefcase, overflowing on my bedside table, stacked on my desk at work. Books have carried me to distant worlds, opened new doors and made me feel empathy, compassion, anger, fear, joy, acceptance - and everything in between.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Work
  • Career
  • Fear

• In my peaceful moments, I yearn to write a bank heist like the one in 'Heat.'

  

  Peter Morgan
  • Moments

• I've never been afraid of big moments. I get butterflies.. I get nervous and anxious, but I think those are all good signs that I'm ready for the moment.

  

  Stephen Curry
  • Moments
  • Afraid
  • Butterflies

• Am I melancholy? I certainly have moments. I like to think there's a capacity for joy as well.

  

  Stephen Dillane
  • Joy
  • Moments
  • Melancholy