Salvador Dali Quotes

Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire.

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• Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Today
  • Struggle
  • Religion

• The secret to a long-lasting relationship is perpetually imagining the worst. It's a world view tracing back to my Eastern European ancestry and one I draw upon regularly.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • World
  • Long
  • Relationship

• Ritesh Deshmukh is rock star. He has a lovely family. He works so hard, and he's a great actor. He's funny, friendly, doesn't have an ego, and is so nice to everyone. He's a fine professional, a good husband, and a good father. That's a rock star for me.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Good
  • Great
  • Family

• I just love crafting and shaping sounds. Actually, many of the sounds that I work with start off as organic instruments - guitar, piano, clarinet, etc. But I do love the rigidity of electronic drums.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • Work
  • Love
  • Start

• Everybody in my family were great storytellers. My dad and his brothers would just go on and on; they could tell amazing stories. I think it was something to do with the Celtic, oral storytelling tradition. People very much had that propensity towards telling tales.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Great
  • Family

• Forty years ago, my dad gave up a safe seat in Congress to run for governor and, finally, forty years later, we're gonna have a Larry Hogan in the governor's mansion.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Up
  • Dad

• Expressing oneself is like a drug. I’m so addicted to it.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Drug

• I always wrote as a vehicle for expression but did not try writing for publication until my mid-thirties, at which time I started writing for magazines. I wrote essays and then short stories, then moved into novels.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • Time
  • Writing

• Maybe because I am from a sports background, I don't give up easily. I am a fighter.

  

  Deepika Padukone
  • Up
  • Sports

• I'm a synthesizer. We need to synthesize more the relationships between artists and scientists, and men and women.

  

  Leonard Shlain
  • Men
  • Women

• What does it mean to be an American? While each of us may have our own specific answer to that question, we likely can agree on the basic principles of America: freedom, equal opportunity, and rights accompanied by responsibilities.

  

  Ben Nelson
  • May
  • American
  • America

• Nobody really knows what they're doing. Some are just better at pretending like they do.

  

  Kumail Nanjiani

• Woody Allen is in his '70s and he's making movies, so I look forward to getting there.

  

  Brett Ratner

• Sometimes, when you work with directors who have done it a lot and are established in the business and know the game, there are all these rules that they have. First-time directors will allow you to come in with choices. They're not so jaded by actors that they're like, 'Ugh, just do your job, man.'

  

  Jake Johnson
  • Time
  • Work
  • Done

• There's got to be structure and great comedy. When you start with that, everything else falls into place.

  

  Aries Spears
  • Great
  • Comedy

• Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.

  

  John F. Kennedy
  • War

• I'm shockingly terrible at action movies.

  

  Emma Stone
  • Action

• There is some lack either of sense or of character in one who becomes involved in difficulties with the worthless or the vicious.

  

  John Lancaster Spalding
  • Character

• My generation has failed to stop the arms race. But it's really the men who have failed. Now it's up to the women, and I believe they can do it.

  

  Gene La Rocque
  • Women
  • Really
  • Generation

• Nirvana is this moment seen directly. There is no where else than here. The only gate is now. The only doorway is your own body and mind. There’s nowhere to go. There’s nothing else to be. There’s no destination. It’s not something to aim for in the afterlife. It’s simply the quality of this moment.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Quality
  • Destination
  • Nirvana

• Seth put his ear against the door. "I can't hear anything." "There are probably ten of them patiently waiting on the far side, ready to pounce." Brownies are shrimps. All I'd need are some heavy boots, a pair of shin guards, and a weed whacker." The image made Kendra giggle.

  

  Brandon Mull
  • Image
  • Guards
  • Brownies

• The point I wish plainly to bring before you on this occasion is the individuality of each human soul--our Protestant idea, the right of individual conscience and judgment--our republican idea, individual citizenship. In discussing the rights of woman, we are to consider, first, what belongs to her as an individual, in a world of her own, the arbiter of her own destiny, an imaginary Robinson Crusoe with her woman Friday on a solitary island. Her rights under such circumstances are to use all her faculties for her own safety and happiness.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Happiness
  • Destiny
  • Judgment

• Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Gate
  • Guards
  • Repulsion