Michael Douglas Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire.
-
When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.
-
The movie medium will eventually take its place as art because there is no other medium of interest to so many people.
-
A woman - even if she is the primary breadwinner - really needs to keep in mind that at some point, she may have a diminished earning capacity because of the fact that she will bear children. Of course, this is case by case. I had two kids, and it didn't really slow me down at all.
-
I love to get a massage but I'm quite a baby with it. I don't like them too hard or anyone walking on me or anything. When it's good, it's the best thing ever. When it's bad, it's an hour of absolute agony.
-
I always wanted to be a mom.
-
I am not trying to conform to an unrealistic model of beauty. I am, however, being proactive in being the healthiest I can be.
-
I feel quite fearless protecting the people I love.
-
Money without brains is always dangerous.
-
Why movies are so powerful is because you are right in there and you stay in there until they want you to come out, and then you've really gone somewhere.
-
Everything happens for a reason - I'm a believer of that for sure.
-
People can't see that if I had not been a poet, I could never have had such success as a traveler.
-
I really do believe there are things passed down. Behaviour, not just DNA. Psychological make-up. You can see it in dogs. If you want to breed a calm dog, don't get two fighters.
-
Many adult book authors supplement their income by teaching at the college level. Full-time professors fare well, but pay for adjunct professors is notoriously shabby. Children's book authors have a sweeter deal. We're invited by schools, libraries, law firms, and Fortune 500 companies to share our best writing tips and strategies.
-
He'd been mistaken in thinking that if he killed himself the sordid bourgeois world would perish with him.
-
Temerity is not always successful.
-
I had 16 other prisons that I needed to pay attention to, and we did. And I had 3,400 soldiers who were depending on me to take care of them, and I did.
-
Romance is quite an overblown word. This idea of chocolates and champagne and that's it. There's more to love than that. Romance is quite a soppy word. Love is much more important.
-
I could never understand why other kids wanted to truant - my education here gave me everything. It's the place where I really got to flourish.
-
The best way to learn was by looking, to become articulate in the language of sight. The eye could learn to look after itself. (p. 180).
-
Comparing [our] blessings [with others] is almost certain to drive out joy. We cannot be grateful and envious at the same time. If we truly want to have the Spirit of the Lord and experience joy and happiness, we should rejoice in our blessings and be grateful.
-
I still have a fear of theater. I don't know if I will manage that. I used to do it. I developed a bit of a phobia. It's not a real phobia. I can go in and watch.
-
Fear goes hand-in-hand with artistic creation, and no amount of success will make the fear go away entirely.
-
Actresses have more fear of being disliked. I, on the other hand, revel in it.
