Michael Douglas Quotes

Being single is pretty good. It's a nice sense of irresponsibility.

Michael Douglas

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• Explosions are not comfortable.

  

  Yevgeny Zamyatin
  • Comfortable
  • Explosions

• The song 'Innocent' is a song that I wrote about something that really, really emotionally impacted me.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Song
  • Me
  • Innocent

• We're in a world that celebrates things: success, beauty, money. And I reckon that's really about 4 per cent of the world. The rest of us are just getting on with it.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • World
  • Money
  • Success

• If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Writing
  • Myself
  • Writer

• An individual voice can be heard in a choir that otherwise sings in unison. This is something that is not excused.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Voice
  • Individual
  • Choir

• And a friend of mine in the Christys, we used to sit up at night and talk and read and wonder if reincarnation, and if it wasn't reality, what would happen to the human spirit when the body dies? Is there an afterlife? Just questions like that.

  

  Barry McGuire
  • Up
  • Night
  • Reality

• There is no longer a way out of our present situation except by forging a road toward our objective, violently and by force, over a sea of blood and under a horizon blazing with fire.

  

  Gamal Abdel Nasser
  • Present
  • Road
  • Fire

• Dressing is a way of life.

  

  Yves Saint Laurent
  • Life
  • Way
  • Dressing

• It's crazy: when it's raining, it makes no sense to me that people drive 10 miles an hour faster than they normally would, but then the other thing that makes no sense is when people drive 30 miles an hour slower than normal.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Sense

• Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Friend
  • Enemy

• A European who goes to New York and Chicago sees the future... when he goes to Asia he sees the past.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Future
  • Past
  • Chicago

• If I had foreseen Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I would have torn up my formula in 1905.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Formula
  • Torn
  • Hiroshima

• There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. The Talmud tells us that by saving a single human being, man can save the world.

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • Time
  • World
  • May

• My elder sister used to get the fashion magazines, and I would go through them and find things I liked and buy fabric and copy them. But I hated what I looked like. I mean, I was sooo skinny.

  

  Lesley Lawson
  • Fashion
  • Sister
  • Magazines

• A pessimist is a person who is always right but doesn't get any enjoyment out of it, while an optimist, is one who imagines that the future is uncertain. It is a duty to be an optimist, because if you imagine that the future is uncertain, then you mu

  

  Victor Cherbuliez
  • Future
  • Optimist
  • Pessimist

• I lose myself in my performances so I wouldn't say that I ever act on stage. I don't find it to be an acting drill for me. I just find it to be something very real that comes from a very gut-driven, honest place.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Real
  • Acting
  • Honest

• Also something that you don't have to listen to from beginning to end - you can enter at any point and leave at any point.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Beginning
  • Listen
  • Leave

• There are plenty of reasons for hope. There need be no war with Russia, and those who would fight her now, on the theory that we had better do it and get it over with, are lightheaded promoters of world destruction.

  

  Harold W. Dodds
  • World
  • War
  • Hope

• The complete man must work, study and wrestle.

  

  Aristotle
  • Work
  • Man
  • Study

• Gandalf: Confound it all, Samwise Gamgee. Have you been eavesdropping? Sam: I ain't been droppin' no eaves sir, honest. I was just cutting the grass under the window there, if you'll follow me. Gandalf: A little late for trimming the verge, don't you think? Sam: I heard raised voices. Gandalf: What did you hear? Speak. Sam: N-nothing important. That is, I heard a good deal about a ring, and a Dark Lord, and something about the end of the world, but... Please, Mr. Gandalf, sir, don't hurt me. Don't turn me into anything... unnatural.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Dark
  • Hurt
  • Cutting

• It's terrifying to have a voice right now. It's so terrifying, and it's so essential.

  

  Deborah Kampmeier
  • Voice
  • Essential
  • Terrifying

• Being single is pretty good. It's a nice sense of irresponsibility.

  

  Michael Douglas
  • Sense
  • Irresponsibility