F. Thomson Leighton Quotes
If you're not doing anything wrong, you shouldn't be worried about being watched.
Quotes to Explore
-
Some things are so tragic that you don't know what's funny in it, and some things are so ridiculous you don't know if it's worth talking about it.
-
One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.
-
Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to the Moon, to Mars, to the stars.
-
I enjoy mediation. I think the artist's position is often to mend the things we feel are broken. Whether that's between two cultures or two thoughts. We're always trying to reach, trying to expand something.
-
We need workfare over welfare.
-
Many of the wars we see around the world start as domestic conflicts that are fueled by external forces and powers. My view is that we can help peace if we help communities transform from the inside, on their own terms.
-
I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm.
-
The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.
-
We're not a nation divided: we're a nation broken, and anything broken can be fixed.
-
Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.
-
I've never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.
-
I've made a dozen films in the English language. But then, for love, for my family and friends, I returned to Europe... I annoyingly - looking back - turned down films like 007, 'For Your Eyes Only,' written specially for me.
-
Twitter should ban my mother.
-
Anyone should be able to read comics.
-
Today the arts exist in isolation, from which they can be rescued only through the conscious, cooperative effort of all craftsmen. Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and in its separate parts.
-
In my own life, I've seen myself ramping up the amount of text I consume digitally. For me, it's the weight and inconvenience issue – I want anything that will spare me having to carry around reams of paper.
-
I'm always keeping an eye out for a period piece. I was trained in theatre, so most of the things we did were classical - Shakespeare, Moliere, and Chekhov.
-
There is no reason to change this system. I don't think we'll abandon it. For us the most important thing is to be compact in the back. That's the kind of game we have to play here and it will be very difficult to beat us.
-
Few Indians only had breech cloths, most being wrapped in buffalo robes, otherwise quite naked.
-
There is a moment in your story when you can pinpoint the exact time you fell in love, be it with a place or a person. I can remember both like it was yesterday.
-
Every single figure on Mount Rushmore was a third party at one time or another, so third parties become major parties, and I think that the Libertarian Party may become my major party.
-
Happiness is a continuous creative activity of imaginatively comparing your experiences to things that aren't as good and thereby feeling happy and grateful.
-
It is only in the lonely emergencies of life that our creed is tested: then routine maxims fail, and we fall back on our gods.
-
If you're not doing anything wrong, you shouldn't be worried about being watched.
