Ana Monnar Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.
-
You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.
-
I do not have the angst and the anxiety of my youth. I've gotten to a place where I'm very comfortable with who I am.
-
Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
-
To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
-
There's a lot of people who feel there's a tabloid journalist who had it coming.
-
I believe the Thai people are patient, and the people at least give me a chance to prove my ability to help them.
-
Education is at the heart of achieving your dreams.
-
I am pretty hard on myself. But I think that's how it has to be if you want to keep growing as an actor.
-
A fallen lighthouse is more dangerous than a reef.
-
Indeed, eventually, random outcomes all revert to the mean, meaning that streaks eventually end. Understanding this is a key part of intelligent and rational investing.
-
My mom is, for 89 years old, is extraordinarily open-minded.
-
'Don't Look Now' is a masterpiece. I think it's the best-edited movie of all time. I adore it.
-
Right whales - so named because they were 'the right whale to kill' - grazed the waters off Nantucket as if they were seagoing cattle, straining the nutrient-rich surface of the ocean through the bushy plates of baleen in their perpetually grinning mouths.
-
It's my job to know what's available from every retailer, catalog, website, antiques mall, and craftsperson. A good designer or decorator has to have an almost encyclopedic knowledge.
-
I'm really, really emotional.
-
Almost everybody's happy to be a fool for love.
-
If you look at the opening of 'Private Ryan,' you are so in the point of view of those guys and there is a whole world swirling all around them. You are learning that geography as they are learning it.
-
Clarke's Law of Revolutionary Ideas: Every revolutionary idea - in science, politics, art, or whatever - seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases:(1) 'It's completely impossible - don't waste my time';(2) 'It's possible, but it's not worth doing';(3) 'I said it was a good idea all along.'
-
I am such a huge fan of both of those shows - I've seen every episode of 'Sex in the City' and every episode of 'Girls' at least once, some multiple times.
-
I love fire. As a child I loved setting light to things. I'd always be in the forest putting matches to pieces of wood. I've always regarded fire as my friend.
-
There is the joy that is one's state of the being and there is the joy that is one's state of mind. The first is permanent and the second is impermanent.
-
When something is at risk or in danger or about to be lost, those are the moments you start to realize how much it means to you.
-
Strength of the mind is more powerful than strength of the muscles.
