William Inge Quotes

The fact is that Americans are not a thoughtful people; they are too busy to stop and question their values.

William Inge

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• I was practically driven to Rome in order to obtain the opportunities for art culture and to find a social atmosphere where I was not constantly reminded of my color. The land of liberty had no room for a colored sculptor.

  

  Edmonia Lewis
  • Art
  • Culture
  • Color

• I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Love
  • Happy
  • Silence

• I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Good
  • Thought
  • Looking

• When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • May
  • Today
  • Struggle

• There's nothing that's in an actor's control. I've learned at this point you do things and you let them go. There's no way to control the outcome. The only thing I have any sort of reign over is my own experience.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Experience
  • You
  • Control

• You want private education for your students? No problem whatsoever; pay for it.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Want
  • Education
  • Problem

• You know, I've just always been sort of goofy and kind of gone with it. I actually usually work more in drama, but I have been floating back and forth with comedy, and somehow they keep giving me jobs in comedy, so I guess there's something funny about me.

  

  Zachary Knighton
  • Work
  • Giving
  • Funny

• When you're a kid, to be honest, you could be in the worst situation ever, but you're still going to have ways to enjoy it.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Enjoy
  • Situation
  • Kid

• In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Building
  • Fact
  • Tools

• The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Movie
  • Dream
  • Lost

• I was always quite good with accents - I always had quite a good ear - so from the age of about 13, I used to do a lot of voiceover and dubbing for foreign films.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Good
  • Age
  • Always

• Teasing and a sense of humor, if you can develop that in your kids, and if you can exercise it with the kids, just makes for a pleasanter atmosphere.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Kids
  • You
  • Exercise

• Home is where your rump rests.

  

  Rachel Brosnahan
  • Home
  • Where
  • Your

• Millions of people gave their lives fighting fascism and imperialism, but Pearl Harbor was the event that forever changed the course of human history.

  

  Sam Graves
  • People
  • History
  • Fighting

• I am not an oligarch. I am a servant and I try to align my interests and those of my investors.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • Interests
  • Servant
  • Investors

• A democracy thrives on diversity. Tyranny oppresses it.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Democracy
  • Diversity

• Chile's mines are very dangerous; the country has a lot of earthquakes.

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • Country
  • Dangerous
  • Very

• The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Own

• The whole process of making 'Bloody Sunday' was difficult but extraordinary.

  

  James Nesbitt
  • Sunday

• In the NBA, as in nowhere else in America, white people are utterly beholden to black people, and they're not about to let us off that easily. It's a kind of very mild payback for the last 500 years.

  

  David Shields
  • People
  • America
  • Black

• If people can keep track of all the celebrity gossip, there's no reason we can't also assimilate the key concepts of economic philosophy.

  

  Pedro Reyes
  • People
  • Celebrity
  • Gossip

• In a world that is defined by what separates us, sharing a meal with someone from a different country, showing what we have in common with the people, it's very powerful and important.

  

  Andrew Zimmern
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• Musclemen grow on trees. They can tense their muscles and look good in a mirror. So what? I'm interested in practical strength that's going to help me run, jump, twist, punch.

  

  Jason Statham
  • Good
  • Help
  • Mirror

• The fact is that Americans are not a thoughtful people; they are too busy to stop and question their values.

  

  William Inge
  • People
  • Busy
  • Thoughtful