Moira Kelly Quotes

I get a lot of recognition for my voice. That always surprises me.

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• Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Going
  • Everybody
  • Surprises

• Even the best scientists are often insecure and feel the need for recognition.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Best
  • Need
  • Recognition

• When I do a horror or a fantasy film it all boils down to something in the script that surprises me. It could be a big thing or a small moment. If it's there I'll do it.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Film
  • Moment
  • Fantasy

• The power of celebrity backing has been crucial. I would say that 90 percent of our brand recognition comes from celebrities wearing my pieces.

  

  Naeem Khan
  • Power
  • Celebrity
  • Brand

• The new, though engaging at times, may often start as offensive to us. The latter is often proof of the worth of this, while in the long run it will receive more recognition, than some, of what we liked so much in the beginning.

  

  Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
  • Long
  • May
  • Beginning

• I await joyous surprises while working, an awakening of the materials that I work with and that my spirit develops.

  

  Odilon Redon
  • Work
  • Spirit
  • Materials

• As soon as we abandon ourselves to God and do the task He has placed closest to us, He begins to fill our lives with surprises.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Surprises
  • Soon

• No one is exempt from the rule that learning occurs through recognition of error.

  

  Alexander Lowen
  • Learning
  • Error
  • Recognition

• All thought begins with the recognition that something is out of place.

  

  Plato
  • Place
  • Recognition
  • Begins

• We know the road of lack of recognition, of people telling us that we can't headline a movie because black women don't translate overseas, that every time we try to break the glass ceiling, people say no, people push back. And it's everything that people don't see out there.

  

  Viola Davis
  • People
  • Trying
  • Black

• The beginning of philosophy is the recognition of the conflict between opinions.

  

  Epictetus
  • Philosophy
  • Opinions
  • Recognition

• A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises. One ought to reserve an hour a week for receiving letters and afterwards take a bath.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Letter
  • Surprises
  • Reserve

• If our free society is to endure, those who govern must recognize human dignity and accept the enforcement of constitutional limitations on their power conceived by the Framers . . . . Such recognition will not come from a technical understanding of the organs of government, or the new forms of wealth they administer. It requires something different, something deeper-a personal confrontation with the wellsprings of our society.

  

  William J. Brennan, Jr.
  • Different
  • Understanding
  • Dignity

• When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty, There arises the recognition of ugliness. When they all know the good as good, There arises the recognition of evil.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • People
  • Good
  • Recognition

• The goal ever recedes from us. The greater the progress the greater the recognition of our unworthiness. Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Goal
  • Victory
  • Satisfaction

• Every man, however obscure, however far removed from the general recognition, is one of a group of men impressible for good, and impressible for evil, and it is in the nature of things that he cannot really improve himself without in some degree improving other men.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Evil
  • Recognition
  • Improving

• Toleration ought in reality to be merely a transitory mood. It must lead to recognition. To tolerate is to affront.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Mood
  • Recognition
  • Toleration

• There was a time when I looked to other people for recognition, because I didn't have enough confidence to trust my own judgment. Now I'm not looking for reassurance, because I realize how fickle people are. My own strength is the best I can have.

  

  Annie Lennox Eurythmics
  • People
  • Time
  • Trust

• A statute of 1344 shows some weakness; but the statute of 1391 is memorable, not merely as being the Mortmain Code of three centuries, but as extending the rule of mortmain to all bodies, religious and secular alike, having perpetual succession. For this extension marks the definite recognition by English Law of the corporation, or, as it is sometimes called, the 'fictitious person' - the legal personality which is not restricted to the limits of individual life. The gradual evolution of this institution is one of the most fascinating chapters in legal history...

  

  Edward Jenks
  • History
  • Rule
  • Weakness

• I still don't understand why when you put a piece of paper in a tray with solution in it, it comes up. It's still, in a sense, magic to me. It's a funny thing, you know. I've got two kids, and when they were very young, they used to come in the darkroom and I thought they'd be astounded by that. Nothing. When they got a little older, then they got astounded by it.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Up
  • Why
  • Kids

• I live a half mile from the San Andreas fault - a fact that bubbles up into my consciousness every time some other part of the world experiences an earthquake. I sometimes wonder whether this subterranean sense of impending disaster is at least partly responsible for Silicon Valley's feverish, get-it-done-yesterday work norms.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• Even when the winds of misfortune blow, amazing things can still happen.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Blow
  • Misfortune
  • Winds

• Any country if you go really, really in depth somewhere, the human rights are not totally respected.

  

  Sepp Blatter
  • Country
  • Human Rights
  • Depth

• I get a lot of recognition for my voice. That always surprises me.

  

  Moira Kelly
  • Recognition
  • Surprises