Alex Webb Quotes

To a certain extent what I do is play with the world, but it's disciplined play.

Alex Webb

• World
• Play
• Disciplined

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish.

  

  Oliver Herford
  • Stone
  • Rolling
  • Moss

• The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Art
  • Energy
  • End

• There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Step
  • Ridiculous
  • Sublime

• All of my main characters have been under 30.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Characters
  • Been
  • Main

• As a child, I wanted to go into advertising. I had a love affair with the advertising industry.

  

  Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
  • Child
  • Industry
  • Advertising

• If you're governor of a state, and you have nothing to say when the president attacks the people that you represent, you are complicit.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • People
  • You
  • Nothing

• The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Best

• I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Time
  • Three
  • Take

• I still have a lot of my friends from high school. You just know who is there for you for real, and who is trying to get something out of you.

  

  Francia Raisa
  • Real
  • Trying
  • School

• It's a lot harder to do an ensemble because your energy is going in so many different places, and you have to cover everybody. You have to sort of split your attention.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Different
  • You
  • Energy

• I don't really get stuck in a time warp where, if my film is a success, I have to keep partying till the next one releases, or if my film is a flop, I keep wallowing in sorrow until the next comes my way. My hard work in each film is always there.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • Time
  • Work
  • Success

• I love being the sidekick. I'm pretty sure fans love seeing me that way.

  

  Jacob Batalon
  • Love
  • Pretty
  • Me

• Information on the Internet must be as free as in the newspapers.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Free
  • Internet
  • Information

• Using taxes to punish the rich, in reality, punishes everyone because we are all interconnected. High taxes and excessive regulation and massive debt are not working.

  

  Rand Paul
  • High
  • Reality
  • Rich

• For me, if I have the choice between an extra 45 minutes in bed or getting up at 4:30 A.M. to go to the gym, I will always choose bed.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Up
  • Me
  • Choice

• I'm all in favor of banks that play their part in community endeavors, private individuals looking for loans, people who want to start up a little business, and that's what banks are for.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • People
  • Up
  • Business

• For the sword outwears its sheath,And the soul wears out the breast,And the heart must pause to breathe,And love itself have rest.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Rest

• Great artists have no country.

  

  Alfred de Musset
  • Great
  • Country

• Architecture is the thoughtful making of space.

  

  Louis Kahn
  • Space
  • Architecture
  • Thoughtful

• I consider myself a Hindu, Christian, Moslem, Jew, Buddhist and Confucian.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Religions
  • I Consider

• The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Wise
  • Contradict

• The coward does not know what it means to be alone: an enemy is always standing behind his chair.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Enemy
  • Means
  • Chair

• It's going to cost trillions of dollars to rework the energy sources all over the world. Were going to have to move away from fossil fuels.

  

  Ted Turner
  • World
  • Energy
  • Over

• To a certain extent what I do is play with the world, but it's disciplined play.

  

  Alex Webb
  • World
  • Play
  • Disciplined