Montgomery Clift Quotes

I have enough money to get by. I'm not independently wealthy, just independently lazy, I suppose.

Montgomery Clift

• Enough
• Lazy
• Suppose
• Wealthy

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• Job-wise, I did have a moment of panic that I should have been a doctor a few years ago, but I hate when people vomit.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • People
  • Job
  • Hate

• I remember looking back on a photo of me... wearing a suit that was, like, two sizes too big for me. I think a lot of guys don't know what fits.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Remember
  • Think
  • Know

• In India, nobody really talks about works of art; they always talk about the appreciation of art. You buy this for 3,000 rupees, it'll become 30,000 in two months.

  

  A. Balasubramaniam
  • Art
  • Always
  • Appreciation

• Hippy people had a hopeful idea of what they wanted the world to be like, then most of them changed into corporate Yuppies. But I still have that hippy thing underneath somewhere.

  

  Patricia Arquette
  • People
  • World
  • Like

• I am gluten free, dairy free and sugar free, although I do slip up on the sugar sometimes because I have a big sweet tooth!

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • Free
  • Sweet
  • Dairy

• It is possible in this world to be pretty and funny and successful all at the same time.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Time
  • World
  • Pretty

• Finney is about the best writer of time travel stories ever, and I adore time travel stories - have to make a time travel game someday!

  

  Warren Spector
  • Time
  • Game
  • Best

• It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Woman
  • Catholic
  • Mathematics

• I don't work for Donald Trump. I work with him. I work for the people who sent me up here. He ran on repealing and replacing Obamacare. Those people that put him and me in office expect us to repeal and replace Obamacare.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace.

  

  Karl Barth
  • Life
  • Find
  • Grace

• When you saw Jon Lovitz or Dana Carvey or Phil Hartman doing something, they were acting. It was real acting. Like, they were acting like that person. They weren't like - it wasn't even like they were really trying to go for a laugh, especially in Phil Hartman's case.

  

  Bill Hader
  • Real
  • Trying

• 'Certifiably Jonathan' contrives crises for its subject - a bid to get his paintings into MOMA, among others.

  

  Elvis Mitchell

• He considers me just a uterus with legs.

  

  Mary Beth Whitehead

• We have a very close relationship with Google. We extend our offerings to all the markets that we expand into.

  

  Dan Schulman
  • Relationship

• A lot of Ivy League schools have presidents who are very politically active. And I don't think it has an impact on whether a student chooses a school or a donor gives to a school.

  

  Jerry Falwell, Jr.
  • School

• Life's too short to drink bad wine or smoke poor cigars.

  

  Don Johnson
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Wine

• The currencies of science are discoveries and ideas; the rewards are the excitement of going where nobody has been before and, if one is inclined to such things, the kudos of peer acclaim, plus funds to do more research.

  

  John Sulston
  • Science

• They're on you day and night. Their oversight is just too extreme [. . .] That's why our 10-year loan, we paid it back in three years. We couldn't stand the government. The bureaucracy kills you.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • Why
  • Night
  • Government

• And they heard the roaring thunder of a third brilliantly lighted express. "Are they pursuing the first travelers?" demanded the little prince. "They are pursuing nothing at all," said the switchman. "They are asleep in there, or if they are not asleep they are yawning. Only the children are flattening their noses against the windowpanes." "Only the children know what they are looking for," said the little prince. "They waste their time over a rag doll and it becomes very important to them; and if anybody takes it away from them, they cry..." "They are lucky," the switchman said.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Children
  • Prince
  • Travelers

• Kids delight in 'magical thinking', whether in the form of the Tooth Fairy or the saints: whether you see these as comforting lies or eternal verities, they are part of how we help kids make sense of the world.

  

  Emma Donoghue
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Kids

• Particularly the broad masses of the people can be moved only by the power of speech.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • People
  • Speech
  • Masses

• The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Hand
  • Eye
  • Bored

• I have enough money to get by. I'm not independently wealthy, just independently lazy, I suppose.

  

  Montgomery Clift
  • Enough
  • Lazy
  • Suppose