Thomas Aquinas Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I used to stay up all night playing 'Resident Evil 2,' and it wouldn't stop until the sun came up. Then I'd walk outside at dawn's first light, looking at the empty streets of London, and it was like life imitating art. It felt like I'd stepped into an actual zombie apocalypse.
-
I don't know if I actually am good at the sight of blood. An accident on the street gets me very, very upset.
-
If you go back and watch 'The French Connection,' it's been cannibalized so many times. There are certain movies like that, where you see the original and think, 'This isn't so great.' And the reason it isn't so great is because everyone has copied it.
-
After 'Heart Skips A Beat' hit No.1, I barely had a chance to celebrate 'cos it was straight over to the judges' houses for the 'Xtra Factor,' filming in Greece, L.A. and Spain.
-
I don't say I was 'proceeding down a thoroughfare;' I say I 'walked down the road'. I don't say I 'passed a hallowed institute of learning;' I say I 'passed a school'.
-
Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
-
I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
-
When you think of all the conflicts we have - whether those conflicts are local, whether they are regional or global - these conflicts are often over the management, the distribution of resources. If these resources are very valuable, if these resources are scarce, if these resources are degraded, there is going to be competition.
-
In 1973, the Supreme Court ruled that individual communities should set obscenity standards. Whenever a case is tried, it will be based on a community standard for that particular place.
-
See, as much as I love the game, golf was my vehicle to competition. And I love to compete.
-
I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.
-
Help is dangerous because it exists outside the human economy: the only payment for help is gratitude.
-
I grew up in war and saw the United Nations help my country to recover and rebuild. That experience was a big part of what led me to pursue a career in public service. As Secretary-General, I am determined to see this organization deliver tangible, meaningful results that advance peace, development and human rights.
-
By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.
-
George W. Bush bought the election - period. End of story. There is no argument. You can try to come up with any argument you can, but there is none.
-
I listen to music almost any time I'm not sleeping, 'hanging out' with specific people, or showering.
-
I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.
-
It is more profitable for your congressman to support the tobacco industry than your life.
-
I love to talk to children about making mistakes. It's important that I tell them about how I don't get it right the first time. We live in such a perfectionist society, and they see so many finished products and polished performances.
-
I'm 42 and the age of a guy who has kids, so I guess I'm playing right where I'm supposed to be. I'm comfortable with that, but in the same breath I'd do something edgy. If someone came to me and offered me an edgy and funny story, then I'd do it.
-
We've just got to go up there and play well, no matter who we've got.
-
Words are acoustical signs for concepts; concepts, however, are more or less definite image signs for often recurring and associated sensations, for groups of sensations. To understand one another, it is not enough that one use the same words; one also has to use the same words for the same species of inner experiences; in the end one has to have one's experiences in common.
-
I understand that absinthe makes the tart grow fonder.
-
I cannot understand how anyone conscious of mortal sin can laugh or be merry.
