Wilkie Collins Quotes
Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.
Quotes to Explore
-
My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!
-
Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.
-
It's more important to fly midpoint in deals and work together than to try to haggle for the last dollar.
-
The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.
-
With legitimate journalists I've always had a great time - I've never gone out of my way to court the press. That's probably cost me some money, but I've always had the respect of my peers.
-
The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.
-
One of the things I have to do, and I'm working on it, is making sure I enjoy the ride along the way. I have to remind myself, 'Take a look around, look at things, and enjoy it.'
-
You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
-
Thoughts are fine when you don't confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a wonderful tool to create things in this world. It only becomes problematic and a source of suffering when you confuse thinking with who you are.
-
They say TV has a tendency to diminish actors, and I think that's probably true in the long run - it wears on 'em like bad dental work - but Cheech doesn't show any of the signs of being damaged that way. And as a man, he's fantastic.
-
If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.
-
Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction without making the novel itself disorderly or dysfunctional.
-
When I got out of high school, I started breaking out. I tried everything from A to Z as far as seeing doctors and getting prescriptions. I even did home remedies, and I had no luck. A fan gave me Proactiv, and it cleared my skin, but there were too many steps. I lose everything, and I lost one of the products. My acne started to come back.
-
The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.
-
One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
-
Being in Harlem on the night of Barack Obama's election was extraordinary. It was the best street party I have ever gone to, and it felt like the period of American history which began with slavery had ended that evening.
-
I remember immediately - immediately - feeling like, 'I don't want to play 'We Are Young' when I'm 35. I don't want to be defined by this.'
-
I am the bridge between the East and the West. I don't want to abandon one for the other.
-
I'm a spiritual person, I'm an America, I'm a Jew, and all of those things influence every breath I take, everywhere I go.
-
Guys will definitely settle for women who get the joke. But a woman who can make you laugh? It's not high on a guy's must list. Perhaps it should be.
-
From out of all the many particulars comes oneness, and out of oneness come all the many particulars.
-
The road to hell is paved with intractable recursions, bad equilibria, and information cascades.
-
In order not to hold a frame with someone, you have to be intimidated by them.
-
Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.
