Thomas Starr King Quotes

Though I weigh only 120 pounds, when I'm mad, I weigh a ton.

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• 'The Omen,' 'The Exorcist,' those movies for me are the quintessential horror movies that still scare me as an adult.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Me
  • Movies
  • Horror

• Carelessness makes me cross. And unkindness.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Makes
  • Cross
  • Carelessness

• I write a book a year while creating TV and film projects. And being a writer isn't just writing: I have to chase down paychecks and manage foreign tax payments. I maintain a vibrant relationship with readers and bloggers. And when it comes to Hollywood, I typically have to have fifteen business meetings in the hopes that one leads to a project.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Writing
  • Business
  • Book

• I love making movies, but there's nothing like being in front of an audience.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Like
  • Audience
  • Movies

• I never saw 'Titanic' as a springboard for bigger films or bigger pay cheques. I knew it could have been that, but I knew it would have destroyed me.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Me
  • Pay
  • Films

• I am not hungry for roles on TV or in films. I am happy being a social media sensation.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • Happy
  • Media
  • Social Media

• My parents had normal jobs, and I didn't just want to work all day, and so I thought if I could break into music I wouldn't have to work all day. And I had an uncle who was on Broadway, so I was like, 'I have to be able to sing.'

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Work
  • Music
  • Parents

• Wild at Heart made a few people angry-they thought I was exploiting women by showing that when a woman says no she really means yes.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Women
  • Heart

• We have a bad image in the world, I've got to admit. I just want people to think twice about Colombia. Don't go by the first impression.

  

  Camilo Villegas
  • People
  • World
  • Bad

• A good newspaper is never nearly good enough but a lousy newspaper is a joy forever.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Good
  • Joy
  • Forever

• Sarah Palin is treated like a bimbo sometimes, but she has never given the public the respect they deserve. She acts silly and doesn't know stuff. She didn't even finish her term.

  

  Gail Collins
  • She
  • Respect
  • Silly

• I began writing 'Matterhorn' in 1975 and for more than 30 years I kept working on my novel in my spare time, unable to get an agent or publisher to even read the manuscript.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Years

• Like 'real', 'free' is only used to rule out the suggestion of some or all of its recognized antitheses. As 'truth' is not a name of a characteristic of assertions, so 'freedom' is not a name for a characteristic of actions, but the name of a dimension in which actions are assessed.

  

  J. L. Austin
  • Real
  • Truth
  • Free

• 'I used to tell everyone I meant to be an artist..... I don't do that any more.'

  

  Banksy

• They never lynch children, babies, no matter what they do they are whitewashed in advance.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Children

• If the ignorance of nature gave birth to such a variety of gods, the knowledge of this nature is calculated to destroy them.

  

  Baron d'Holbach
  • Nature
  • Knowledge
  • Ignorance

• One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. … All you need to do is to be curious, receptive, eager for experience. And there's one strange thing: when you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.

  

  Eleanor Roosevelt
  • Life
  • Experience

• I like the triangle. My first season, the whole first season, we played nothing but the triangle, so I know it pretty well.

  

  Kristaps Porzingis
  • Pretty

• I play games on-set at work. Sometimes I can't remember people's names, so I start throwing out clues. Like if I can't think of George Clooney, I'll say, 'You know, drop-dead gorgeous, was on a big TV show... ' Until someone says his name, I can't finish my story!

  

  Andie MacDowell
  • People
  • Work
  • Remember

• If one does away with the fact of the Resurrection, one also does away with the Cross, for both stand and fall together, and one would then have to find a new center for the whole message of the gospel.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • Together
  • Fall
  • Find

• The Japanese drive on the left side of the road. Most streets literally do not have names.

  

  Charles C. Mann
  • Road
  • Japanese

• This is a perfect snapshot of the West at twilight. On the one hand, governments of developed nations microregulate every aspect of your life in the interests of 'keeping you safe.' ... On the other hand, when it comes to 'keeping you safe' from real threats, such as a millenarian theocracy that claims universal jurisdiction, America and its allies do nothing. ... It is now certain that Tehran will get its nukes, and very soon. This is the biggest abdication of responsibility by the Western powers since the 1930s.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • Life
  • Real
  • America

• You understand sleep when you are awake, not while you are sleeping. You can see mistakes in arithmetic when your mind is working properly; while you are making them you cannot see them. Good people know about both bad and evil; bad people do not know about either.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Good
  • Mind

• Though I weigh only 120 pounds, when I'm mad, I weigh a ton.

  

  Thomas Starr King
  • Mad
  • Pounds