Thomas Hobbes Quotes
The Present only has a being in Nature; things Past have a being in the Memory only, but things to come have no being at all; the Future but a fiction of the mind.
Quotes to Explore
-
The best thing an actor can be is flexible, because all directors are different and all actors are different.
-
Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.
-
I want to live in a country that is not just a place but also an idea, and Jerusalem is the heart of the idea. There may be practical considerations, but a country cannot exist without an ethos, and Jerusalem is an ethos.
-
My biggest crisis is that I don't understand what young people like.
-
I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
-
Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.
-
Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.
-
Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
-
Sometimes what you mustn't do is just as just as important as what you must do.
-
Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.
-
No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.
-
The more deeply connected you are with the people that you're working with, the better the work and the character, and then, I think, that really translates to life. It will help you in life to be more grounded and genuine.
-
People can't even imagine that it's possible to succeed anymore.
-
Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.
-
I go out with my band six months of the year and the rest of them with the Blues Brothers.
-
But to be the best, you must face the best. And to overcome your fear, you must deal with the best.
-
I am not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear.
-
It's the 21st century. It's untenable to suggest that women had no significance and no interest and that just because they didn't vote they had no relevance to the course of our history.
-
There is no comparing the brutality and cynicism of today’s pop culture with that of forty years ago: from High Noon to Robocop is a long descent.
-
I love people. And when you love people that much that you're disappointed in them every day, that love can turn to hate in a flash of a second.
-
I do big films just to experience personal satisfaction.
-
A champion owes everybody something. He can never pay back for all the help he got, for making him an idol.
-
I want to be more selfless and look outward.
-
The Present only has a being in Nature; things Past have a being in the Memory only, but things to come have no being at all; the Future but a fiction of the mind.
