Michael York Quotes

I had been in a film, playing a young British aristocrat. My wife told me that she was invited to a dinner and she invited me to dinner and the hostess had seen me and said, 'You cannot bring him.' but I think that I've done enough to shatter the image

Michael York

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• When I was in high school in the early 1970s, we knew we were running out of oil; we knew that easy sources were being capped; we knew that diversifying would be much better; we knew that there were terrible dictators and horrible governments that we were enriching who hated us. We knew all that and we did really nothing.

  

  Carl Safina
  • School
  • High
  • Running

• I am an opponent of war and of war preparations and an opponent of universal military training and conscription; but entirely apart from that issue, I hold that segregation in any part of the body politic is an act of slavery and an act of war.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • War
  • Military
  • Slavery

• I think my resignation was the only way to avoid bloodshed.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • Think
  • Way
  • Resignation

• If you break up with a girlfriend or a boyfriend, you're in this vulnerable state where you're still kind of half in the relationship with them, but you're single, and it takes a while to feel solid in yourself again.

  

  Sam Palladio
  • Up
  • Relationship
  • Single

• Could one live on the sense of beauty alone, exempt from the necessity of 'creature comforts,' a sea-voyage would be delightful.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Live
  • Alone
  • Beauty

• By mid-morning, I take a break from my novel and work on my Sunday Style column, which is about pop culture and what I find on the web. I usually start writing it at the beginning of the week and give it a couple of days to marinate before I return to it.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Culture

• I turned pro as a 20-year-old, won a world title a year later, and remained a world champion ever since.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • World
  • Year
  • Champion

• We are two abysses - a well staring at the sky.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Sky

• I hope, that in our archives and historical filings of the future, we do not allow the techie traditions of hierarchy and false regularity to be superimposed to the teeming, fantastic disorderlyness of human life.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Future

• Sed quo fata trahunt virtus secura sequetur.Crimen erit superis et me fecisse nocentem.

  

  Lucan

• Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair. I remember the killers, I remember the victims, even as I struggle to invent a thousand and one reasons to hope.

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • Remember
  • Hope
  • Struggle

• I never thought in my wildest dreams that I would have my very own school - no way. And I had no idea I'd be coaching girls. It's wild.

  

  Liang Chow
  • School
  • Coaching

• More people are listening to opera, and I'm happy - everybody must be given that opportunity.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • People
  • Happy
  • Opportunity

• No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

  

  Max Planck
  • Happy

• Give tax breaks to large corporations, so that money can trickle down to the general public, in the form of extra jobs.

  

  Andrew Mellon
  • Money

• I felt like my parents were always involved with abstraction, and I wanted to do something very specific.

  

  Lena Dunham
  • Parents

• Irrespective of its size, Greece, with its intellectual heritage and the brilliance of Hellenism, together with the liveliness of its people, can contribute politically, morally and culturally to the realisation of the idea of a united Europe.

  

  Konstantinos Karamanlis
  • People
  • Together

• To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent.

  

  Dave Barry
  • World

• I absolutely love low-key restaurants.

  

  Andy Cohen

• It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.

  

  Jean Baudrillard

• Mumford and Sons and Adele are both incredible artists and are great for popular music. There's a lot of club music with heavy beats, so to have that Mumford record and hear banjos being used is so cool.

  

  Dave Haywood Lady Antebellum
  • Great
  • Music
  • Cool

• Adventure-travel is any activity used as a conduit to observe, share, enjoy, suffer, encounter, or experience that which is outside the boundaries of one's own day-to-day life. You don't have to go to Thailand or Central America to be an adventurer-traveler, but you can. And it's probably better not to have a specific goal, but there are no requirements about that, either. 'Boundaries' is the operative word here; real, implied, or imagined, if your body or mind crosses a boundary, you are doing it.

  

  Randy Wayne White
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Real

• Absorb ideas from every source.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Ideas
  • Source
  • Absorb

• I had been in a film, playing a young British aristocrat. My wife told me that she was invited to a dinner and she invited me to dinner and the hostess had seen me and said, 'You cannot bring him.' but I think that I've done enough to shatter the image

  

  Michael York
  • Thinking
  • Young
  • British