Sydney Pollack (Sydney Irwin Pollack) Quotes

I mean, the truth of the matter is, I like the failures as much as I like the successes, it's only the world that doesn't like the failures.

Sydney Pollack

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• Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient.

  

  Barney Oliver
  • Energy
  • Source
  • U.S.

• This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Life
  • Time
  • Job

• Eventually you get bored and you want to work.

  

  Kate Mara
  • Work
  • Want
  • You

• Tell that to the marines-the sailors won't believe it.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Believe

• Hearts are worn in these dark ages;You're not alone in this story's pages.Night has fallen amongst the living and the dying,And I try to hold it in, yeah I try to hold it in.

  

  Sarah McLachlan
  • Night
  • Alone
  • Dark

• The U.S. government uses cash accounting. That is illegal for any enterprise of any size in America except for the U.S. government. Every for-profit business, every not-for-profit business, every state and local government has to use real accounting except for Uncle Sam.

  

  Jim Cooper
  • Real
  • Business
  • America

• I think there was a time when I was too strict and controlling. I think I asphyxiated my children.

  

  Donatella Versace
  • Time
  • Children

• The majority of people who get in the sport of gymnastics do not go to the Olympics or get a Division 1 scholarship, but it doesn't mean that they can't get something positive from the sport.

  

  Dominique Dawes
  • People
  • Positive
  • Gymnastics

• From beginning to end it's about keeping the energy and the intensity of the story and not doing too much and not doing too little, but just enough so people stay interested and stay involved in the characters.

  

  Deborah Cox
  • People
  • Energy
  • Beginning

• The hardest part is making the time to write. Not finding the time to write, mind you. Making.

  

  Carmen Agra Deedy
  • Time
  • Mind

• History has always judged silence and complicity harshly in these times of moral consequence.

  

  Pramila Jayapal
  • History
  • Moral
  • Silence

• When I moved from consumer banking to international banking, I thought I brought a lot of insights from India we could implement globally.

  

  Chanda Kochhar

• The influence of Paris, for instance, is now minimal. Yet a lot is written about Paris fashion.

  

  Geoffrey Beene
  • Fashion
  • Paris

• My children's books are written on the belief that every child has a talent and a passion. Each story unfolds into an adventure of nurturing that confidence until a passion blooms.

  

  Masiela Lusha
  • Children
  • Passion
  • Confidence

• Superbia, invidia e avarizia sonole tre faville c'hanno i cuori accesi.

  

  Dante Alighieri

• I have never been one to flinch or crawfish when faced with an unpleasant task.

  

  Charles Portis

• Sheep run to the slaughterhouse, silent and hopeless, but at least sheep never vote for the butcher who kills them or the people who devour them. More beastly than any beast, more sheepish than any sheep, the voter names his own executioner and chooses his own devourer, and for this precious "right" a revolution was fought.

  

  Octave Mirbeau
  • People
  • Revolution
  • Silent

• In your discipline, if doubt comes, let it come. You do your work and let doubt carry on with its work. And let us see which gives up first!

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Up
  • Work
  • Doubt

• I get to represent somebody I don't think is getting represented right now. The regular dude: the guy who believes in God but still likes pussy.

  

  Kanye West
  • God
  • Guy

• When I was young, I wanted to be the face of a makeup campaign or a hair campaign, so that's something that I've always dreamed of that hopefully comes along. And then obviously starring with Ryan Gosling in a movie wouldn't be so bad, either.

  

  Emeraude Toubia
  • Bad
  • Movie
  • Hair

• Words are things, but things which mean. We cannot do away with meaning without doing away with signs, that is, with language itself. Moreover, we would have to do away with the universe. All the things man touches are impregnated with meaning.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Man
  • Words
  • Universe

• Even when sisters are different... Their likeness comes shining through!

  

  Mary Elizabeth Lease
  • Different
  • Sisters

• Readers appreciate the truth. Why say, 'Some think a situation is a mess?' Based on my reporting, if a situation is a mess, then I say that. The truth is always what reporters tell each other when they get back to the newsroom.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Why
  • Truth
  • Appreciate

• I mean, the truth of the matter is, I like the failures as much as I like the successes, it's only the world that doesn't like the failures.

  

  Sydney Pollack
  • Truth
  • Matter
  • Failures