Miranda Richardson (Miranda Jane Richardson) Quotes

I'm not someone who can lie on a beach and do nothing. I am not sure what you are supposed to do, so I get bored. I prefer to have a purpose, such as going to Alaska to see orca whales.

Miranda Richardson

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• Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Man
  • Impossible
  • Jump

• People often ask me whether I believe in God. I haven't seen God. But I think that one's beliefs are one's God - and, in those terms, yes, God is there.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • People
  • God
  • Believe

• I met Mos Def around that time but I didn't hook up with him until I was about 17 or 18.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Up
  • Time
  • Him

• Sometimes it's nice just being in your own room and having a quiet night and relaxing and getting ready for the game.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Game
  • Night
  • Nice

• I feel like woman was brought to this world to have family and kids.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • World
  • Family
  • Kids

• The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they failed to perceive facts - even widely known ones - that were outside their limited field of vision.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • War
  • Vision
  • Facts

• I didn't have the welfare. I didn't have the proper education. I didn't have these things. That's why it's almost like a complex in me that I want to explode myself in my films.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • Education
  • Me
  • Welfare

• The simplest comment on my book came from my ballet teacher. She said, 'I wish you hadn’t made every line funny. It’s so depressing.'

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • She
  • Book
  • Funny

• Jesus, give the wearyCalm and sweet repose.With Thy tend'rest blessingMay our eyelids close.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Rest
  • Jesus
  • Sweet

• There is no arguing with Johnson: for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Fire

• There are literally several levels of SCO being wrong. And even if we were to live in that alternate universe where SCO would be right, they'd still be wrong.

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • Live
  • Universe

• The idea of having to match a pair of socks to your tie or to your pants just doesn't make any sense to me... With boots, you don't have to worry about it. Nobody sees your socks.

  

  Markwayne Mullin
  • Worry

• I had written for Jimmy Kimmel and Sarah Silverman in the past. Jimmy had a different voice, and different priorities. He couldn't be the bad guy in the joke; he couldn't upset people, really.

  

  Anthony Jeselnik
  • People
  • Different
  • Bad

• My own thinking has evolved. You find Africanisms in American speech. You find an African influence on United States culture. There are all kinds of Africanisms in America, as you would expect, if you really thought about it... That whole thing is much broader; the influence is much broader than I first understood.

  

  Amiri Baraka
  • Thinking
  • American
  • America

• I never let my politics supersede my manners.

  

  Darren Criss

• If you were to ask me, 'What the hell does a musician have in common with a restaurant?' I would say a huge amount. It's show time every day, it's a team of people, like, running a circus, which is running a rock-and-roll band.

  

  Mick Fleetwood Fleetwood Mac
  • People
  • Time
  • Team

• I had some great high points and thought: 'This is fantastic. I'm going to be a huge star.' Then something happens, and you can't get a job to save your life.

  

  Adam Rayner
  • Life
  • Great
  • Job

• I have a little tiny Emily Dickinson so big that I carry in my pocket everywhere. And you just read three poems of Emily. She is so brave. She is so strong. She is such a sexy, passionate, little woman. I feel better.

  

  Maurice Sendak
  • She
  • Strong
  • Brave

• The feeling that's in your heart all the time comes out spiritually in your voice and the music.

  

  Dolores O'Riordan The Cranberries
  • Time
  • Music
  • Heart

• Labour has its unique place in a cultured human family.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Place
  • Labour
  • Human Family

• Adversity is the touchstone of character: it is not in success but in misfortune that hidden powers bear fruit.

  

  Alec-Tweedie
  • Character
  • Adversity
  • Fruit

• I love Shogun world. It's so beautiful. The performances are beautiful. It's like classic Japanese cinema, with a little 'Westworld' twist.

  

  Luke Hemsworth
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • Japanese

• Rhymes, meters, stanza forms, etc., are like servants. If the master is fair enough to win their affection and firm enough to command their respect, the result is an orderly happy household. If he is too tyrannical, they give notice; if he lacks authority, they become slovenly, impertinent, drunk and dishonest.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Art
  • Happy
  • Respect

• I'm not someone who can lie on a beach and do nothing. I am not sure what you are supposed to do, so I get bored. I prefer to have a purpose, such as going to Alaska to see orca whales.

  

  Miranda Richardson
  • Purpose
  • Lying
  • Beach