Michelangelo Quotes

Genius is infinite painstaking.

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• All the girls today want to be famous, but they haven't earned their spurs.

  

  C. Z. Guest
  • Today
  • Want
  • Famous

• The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Men
  • Business
  • Failure

• I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don't go.

  

  Uta Hagen
  • Think
  • Acting
  • Theatre

• There are fans of Twenty20 cricket, and we need to ensure that we give them the cricket they want to see. We need to keep Test cricket alive, because there is a section of fans who love and worship Test cricket and have basically helped this game grow, and they are as important as anybody else.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Important
  • Fans
  • Give

• I feel like if I consider myself comfortable in something, then that's not exactly where I want to be. And in 'Jane the Virgin' specifically, I feel like I don't have to choose... We get to do drama and comedy sometimes within the same thirty seconds.

  

  Yael Grobglas
  • Want
  • Comedy
  • Myself

• It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Impossible
  • Even
  • Zero

• We need an unambiguous rule - a law - that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Law
  • Stop
  • Will

• The American president has a peculiar leadership responsibility to speak out for freedom.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • American
  • Freedom
  • Responsibility

• I would like to be in a superhero movie where I do martial arts.

  

  Dakota Goyo
  • Movie
  • Superhero
  • Martial Arts

• No man was ever great by imitation.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great
  • Man
  • Imitation

• If a company is profitable, the founder is in control. If it's not, investors are in control.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Control
  • Company
  • Founder

• If die I must, let me die drinking in an Inn.

  

  Walter Map
  • Me
  • Die
  • Drinking

• I was 13 and at summer camp when I had my first kiss.

  

  Carlos Pena, Jr.
  • Summer
  • First
  • Kiss

• Ineptitude and negligence directed British policies in India more than any cynical desire to divide and rule, but the British were not above exploiting rivalries.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Desire
  • India
  • Cynical

• In the dressing room, we've just made it really Zen: low lighting, lots of candles, and fresh, healthy food.

  

  Flume
  • Food
  • Healthy
  • Lighting

• Horror serves a cathartic role in human society, all throughout the world. It is a way of confronting the darkness, both within and without.

  

  Nancy A. Collins
  • World
  • Society
  • Darkness

• The Destiny of every Nation is bound to the Destiny of all Others.

  

  Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
  • Destiny
  • Nation
  • Others

• I was in Asia and people asked me about being considered sex symbol. I don't know if that's good or not, because where I come from, sex isn't something you're allowed to talk about.

  

  Bai Ling
  • People
  • Good
  • Me

• So you're quite right that when... as the Cold War grew and expanded out of Europe, we ourselves had to take refuge behind the shield of the Monroe Doctrine.

  

  E. Howard Hunt
  • War
  • Cold

• I sleep as much as I want. I'll sleep, like, 11 hours, unless I'm working. Sometimes I do feel like, 'This is weird; I should just get up so I can fit into the world.' Then I'm like, 'Why?' I don't have a nine-to-five job.

  

  Heather Graham
  • Job
  • Sleep
  • Working

• The energy of devils and angels is the same energy; it's how you use it. It's fuel. There is a saying: If you scare all your devils away, the angels will go away with them. You know, the halo and the horns are the same thing. I mean it's OK to be spiritually horny - that's what creative genius is all about. Geniuses don't have time to think about how it's going to be received... they don't have time to think whether people like it or not, is it morally right, will God like it?

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • God
  • Energy
  • Genius

• We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Joy
  • Thoughts
  • Minds

• Genius is infinite painstaking.

  

  Michelangelo
  • Genius
  • Painstaking