William Collins Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Always remember that better days are ahead - if not in this life, in the next.
-
Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
-
A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.
-
My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
-
Most of the time, as a model, I feel like I'm just a doll. They control how I should move.
-
Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.
-
I don't think being a writer who is religious means you have to write about nothing but religion. When I do write about religion, it's to inform the story, not to push a certain agenda.
-
As frightening as this may sound, what you see in the books is the way I see the world. And so far I haven't seen anything, either in Florida or elsewhere, to dissuade me from it.
-
People assume actresses are afraid to get older; the truth is the roles get a whole lot more compelling once you're too old to play dumb.
-
All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
-
As long as I know my head's in the right place, my feet are on the ground, I think I'll be fine.
-
Being an actor is a good way to earn a living. And to meet fabulous people. It's great to live very comfortably. I've been lucky, I've had a lot of fun with great roles, but it is true that if I were extremely rich, I would stop and I would go to play football on a beach in the Caribbean with my children.
-
We need to rekindle those values, those strengths as a nation and as a people... And we must do so as one people with one goal.
-
Our concept of governing is derived from our view of people. It is a concept deeply rooted in a set of beliefs firmly etched in the national conscience, of all of us.
-
My mother was always supportive.
-
Every 20 minutes you've got to have a bump, you've got to have a change in course, you've got to unsettle the audience. It can't be too predictable so something has to happen. I think that was something that Hitchcock did very well too. You couldn't let an audience feel too settled in.
-
Science fiction is the ugly stepchild of mainstream literature, and fantasy is the ugly stepchild of science fiction, and tie-in novels are the ugly stepchild of fantasy... and on and on and on.
-
Mike Bloomberg may be a Republican these days. But he has been a Democrat for most of his adult life.
-
Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.
-
One should always avoid unnecessary unhappiness. Especially if one is an immortal. They taught us that in school.
-
The destiny of the woman must be shaped to a large extent on her own conception of her spiritual imperative and her place in society.
-
So, Americans, then. Self-appointed vigilante defenders of the world, kind of like Superman, if Superman was retarded and only fought crime when he felt like it.
-
The thing about dancing - what it taught me all those years - is it gives you an amazing sense of discipline in forcing yourself to do things that you know are good for you but you don't really want to do.
-
Beloved, till life can charm no more; And mourned, till Pity's self be dead
