Sam Walter Foss Quotes

He had a startling genius, but somehow it did n't emerge;Always on the evolution of things that would n't evolve;Always verging toward some climax, but he never reached the verge;Always nearing the solution of some theme he could not solve.

Sam Walter Foss

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• My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • World
  • Mother
  • Father

• Brad Pitt is amazingly talented and equally good-looking, too.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Good
  • Talented
  • Too

• I'm such a girl because all the guys go for cars because of their engines or something like that. I like the colour and the design.

  

  Nathalie Kelley
  • Girl
  • Design
  • Colour

• Perhaps I have a wider range than I'd given myself credit for.

  

  Larry David
  • Myself
  • Given
  • Credit

• In all good westerns, the good guy is always a little bit questionable because he kind-of has to make moral judgments.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Good
  • Guy
  • Always

• If I'm going to produce something, it's going to be with somebody I think is special. Once I go beyond a handful of directors, like Scorsese, there are very few I want to work with.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Work
  • Think
  • Want

• Some people have been listening to the Beatles their whole lives; I didn't discover them until I was 18 years old.

  

  Danger Mouse
  • People
  • Listening
  • Years

• It would be easy to blame Hollywood to say that I was typed and forced to play the same role over and over. For a while, I did. But the truth is that I knew what I was doing. I was enjoying myself. I was making money.

  

  Sal Mineo
  • Money
  • Truth
  • Myself

• If you love food and you love red wine and they put you in France, you're in a good place and you're in a bad place at the same time. You have to weigh yourself every day, and you have to have an alarm number. When you get to that number, you have to start putting it in reverse.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Time
  • Good
  • Love

• I wouldn't want to be a James Bond.

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
  • Want
  • Bond
  • James Bond

• Women are, in general, less shallow visually. If their man gains 10, 20 pounds, they don't care as much.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Women
  • Man
  • Care

• Infants have around 30,000 tastebuds, only about a third of which survive into adulthood, so a child's sensitivity towards extremes of sweet, sour and bitter flavours is heightened.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Child
  • Sweet
  • Bitter

• I'm running because we need change.

  

  Zack Space
  • Change
  • Running
  • Need

• Sometimes you want to go for a walk and you don't want to be watched. You just want to be anonymous and blend in. Especially when I travel, I feel that way, because I can't really go out and see a city the way other people can and I miss out on a lot.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • People
  • City
  • Travel

• I guess a lot of comic-book adaptations strive for realism. Christopher Nolan is making Batman seem very real and very serious.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Real
  • Book
  • Serious

• Poetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Words
  • Poetry
  • Lyrics

• Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • People
  • Artist
  • Beauty

• I don't know what my future is.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Future
  • Know

• My siblings and I are known as ABCs, American-born Chinese.

  

  Jennifer 8. Lee
  • American
  • Chinese

• Our nation needs to say clearly once again that using drugs will destroy your life.

  

  Jeff Sessions
  • Life

• The work of intimacy, of course, is to learn to both show your own illumination, and to see it in a way that the physical eyes cannot reveal. In a way that only the heart can reveal: the illumined beauty in another person.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Work
  • Heart
  • Eyes

• I'm a super tomboy.

  

  Annie Ilonzeh

• I sold my soul to the devil. I'm going to hell. I'm headed to hell. I want the money, the women, the fortune, and the fame. That Means I'll end up burning in hell scorching in flames. Satan'll be in to see me later to see if I'm interested in being partners. Devil worshippin', Satan music.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Soul
  • Mean
  • Devil

• He had a startling genius, but somehow it did n't emerge;Always on the evolution of things that would n't evolve;Always verging toward some climax, but he never reached the verge;Always nearing the solution of some theme he could not solve.

  

  Sam Walter Foss