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

• For us to remain in this world, our animal brain has to be there to support us.

  

  Thomas Keating
  • World
  • Support
  • Brain

• To me, science fiction is about the sense of mystery, the sense of awe. Not 'shock and awe', just 'awe.'

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Science
  • Me
  • Sense

• Really, if the lower orders don't set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them? They seem, as a class, to have absolutely no sense of moral responsibility.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Responsibility
  • Moral
  • Sense

• If you come across an insane person who's talking gibberish, you can't make any sense of it at all and that would be one way that enlightenment is different. If you read Dogen, a lot of his stuff is very strange and is coming from a different place than what we're used to, but at the same time, it's not senseless ramblings and that's part of what attracted me to Dogen. I didn't get it, but it was sane. It's not some guy raving about UFO's or Moses living in his bathtub, it's was actually something sane that I just didn't get, if that makes sense?

  

  Brad Warner
  • Sense
  • Strange
  • Enlightenment

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

  

  Michael Douglas
  • Sense
  • Irresponsibility