William J. Brennan, Jr. Quotes
The public schools are supported entirely, in most communities, by public funds-funds exacted not only from parents, nor alone from those who hold particular religious views, nor indeed from those who subscribe to any creed at all.
Quotes to Explore
-
Of course, my faith has a lot to do with being able to be public without being a public nuisance.
-
I think India has several advantages in the knowledge sector, in the software sector.
-
If you're too scared to put your dreams, thoughts, desires, fantasies on paper and share them with the world, then being an author isn't the right career for you.
-
It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.
-
Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.
-
I did not know I was a Midwesterner until I got there. I just fell in love with the people.
-
Surely no one can be sure he has visited Cienega; people say to themselves, do they not: 'Was it a vision; or have I, some time or other, seen dusk in a valley like this?'
-
My first job ever was on 'Peak Practice.' I just had to walk up the stairs. They kept the take where I slipped slightly, which was annoying.
-
It's just my natural way - to be funny. I don't know why that is. But as I've said, humor is a quick cover for shock, horror, confusion. The critics hate funny writers for the most part. They think funny is not serious, but I think that funny can be even more serious than nonfunny. And it can be more affecting, too.
-
I know it sounds strange, but I'm one of those people who goes to a coffee shop to drink coffee.
-
The trick of this thing and the beauty of this thing is that it's a cowboy movie first and then stuff happens. Even after stuff happens it doesn't change - it hasn't suddenly changed into another kind of movie. It's still a cowboy movie. And that's what's incredible about it because nobody has done that before, that's new territory.
-
We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
-
Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
-
Here we were, corrupting all those Russians toward communism.
-
Juilliard definitely emphasizes the theater. They don't train - at all really - for film acting. It's mostly process-oriented, pretty much for the stage.
-
Growing up, I was always the small guy.
-
The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
-
Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
-
I considered a lot of different jobs as a kid. I thought about becoming a priest or a lawyer. My father had a big linen-supply business and I considered working for him. What dawned on me was: 'If I'm an actor, I get to do the fun parts of every job!' Without having to go to four years of law school.
-
In my early 20s, I was a big fan of Theodore Dreiser and might be one of the few people on the planet who have voluntarily read all his novels.
-
It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
-
I don't want to tell people what I make. It's a lot more than I ever dreamed of as a kid. I never think about it.
-
The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
-
The public schools are supported entirely, in most communities, by public funds-funds exacted not only from parents, nor alone from those who hold particular religious views, nor indeed from those who subscribe to any creed at all.
