Adriaan Kortlandt Quotes

Behind their lively, searching eyes one senses a doubting, a contemplative personality, always trying to make sense out of a puzzling world.

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• Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Live
  • Like
  • Audience

• I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Always
  • Audience
  • Movies

• For those unfortunate enough to experience it, long-term unemployment - now, as in the 1930s - is a tragedy. And, for society as a whole, there is the danger that the productive capacity of a significant portion of the labour force will be impaired.

  

  Barry Eichengreen
  • Long
  • Experience
  • Society

• My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Feeling
  • Military
  • Last

• I would not hesitate to vote for a white person as president if I thought he was the best person for the job.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Job
  • Best
  • Thought

• In the United States, man does not feel that he has been torn from the center of creation and suspended between hostile forces. He has built his own world, and it is built in his own image: it is his mirror. But now he cannot recognize himself in his inhuman objects, nor in his fellows.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • World
  • Man
  • Mirror

• This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments - and you get the tears at the end, too.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Great
  • Father
  • Joy

• But it's fun to be something, have that, and you don't have to be real. It's like, comedians. They go on and they're doing all these jokes. I would be like that if I were more awake.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Real
  • Fun
  • You

• Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • True
  • Lies
  • Tell

• If I see a movie on TV that I'm in, I usually will watch it for that reason: It's like I'm watching another person.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Movie
  • Reason
  • Person

• I think it's our job to create a culture and an environment where a gay player knows he is safe and welcome. If and when that happens, believe me - that person will have the full support of the commissioner's office.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Believe
  • Job
  • Culture

• Libraries are at a cultural crossroads. Some proffer that libraries as we know them may go away altogether, ironic victims of the information age where Google has subverted Dewey decimal and researchers can access anything on a handheld device. Who needs to venture deep into the stacks when answers are but a click away?

  

  Sam Weller
  • May
  • Age
  • Deep

• I kind of grew up in the indie world, and now that sort of writing and material is on television.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Up
  • World
  • Writing

• Youth is that period when a young boy knows everything but how to make a living.

  

  Carey Williams
  • Boy
  • Period
  • Young

• Deus seu Natura

  

  Baruch Spinoza

• Sexual freedom, sexual liberation. A modern delusion. We are hierarchical animals. Sweep one hierarchy away, and another will take its place, perhaps less palatable than the first.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Freedom

• You had better love the music... because sometimes the music doesn't love you.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Music
  • Sometimes
  • Better

• One thing more dangerous than getting between a grizzly sow and her cub is getting between a businessman and a dollar bill.

  

  Edward Abbey

• I have chosen to keep my personal life separate from my music, as the two are exclusive from each other, and I want to remain that way. I'll talk music, production, writing songs, touring with anyone but keep religion, politics and world affairs off the table, as my expertise is in songs and music.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Life
  • World
  • Music

• Keep interested in others; keep interested in the wide and wonderful world. Then in a spiritual sense you will always be young.

  

  Fredric March
  • World
  • Spiritual

• There is a wide world out there, full of pain, but filled with joy as well. The former keeps you on the path of growth and the latter makes the journey tolerable.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • World
  • Pain
  • Joy

• Behind their lively, searching eyes one senses a doubting, a contemplative personality, always trying to make sense out of a puzzling world.

  

  Adriaan Kortlandt
  • World
  • Personality
  • Sense