Salvador Dali Quotes

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

Salvador Dali

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• So I feel a responsibility to help first-time film-makers in Brazil, but also to increase the dialogue between film cultures which are really wonderful and so much closer to us than what we do see on our screens.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Time
  • Help
  • Responsibility

• Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.

  

  Hannes Alfven
  • People
  • Believe
  • Today

• I studied music at the most remedial level when I was a kid, through the Los Angeles public schools, with a little private instruction.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Music
  • Kid
  • Los Angeles

• When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Relationship
  • Desire
  • Effort

• If I'm daring at all, I guess it would be emotionally. I try to keep things interesting for myself and to do things that challenge me.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Interesting
  • Me
  • Challenge

• Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

  

  O. Henry
  • Life
  • Smiles
  • Sniffles

• The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.

  

  Basmah bint Saud
  • Women
  • Children
  • School

• I'm lucky that I have my family, I'm lucky that my parents are still together. Those are the things that I cherish.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • Family
  • Together
  • Parents

• The older I get, the more I realize the importance of maintaining an even temperament - not getting too emotional, focusing on the task at hand. You don't want to make a business deal based on your emotions.

  

  Aaron Diehl
  • Business
  • Want
  • Hand

• One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their living guards, had a negative effect on the viewing public. The military in Iraq specifically banned the photographing of wounded soldiers and coffins, thus sanitizing this terrible and bloody conflict.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • War
  • Military
  • Conflict

• I think it's important that things are flawed.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Important
  • Think
  • Things

• I like things simple.

  

  Valentino Garavani
  • Simple
  • Like
  • Things

• Rey is so strong. She's cool and smart and she can look after herself. Young girls can look at her and know that they can wear trousers if they want to. That they don't have to show off their bodies.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • Strong
  • Smart
  • Bodies

• Acting offers me an outlet. Here is the perfect opportunity to spend fleeting moments becoming an entirely different person; to experience a character entirely unlike myself, but to also make such a character a part of me. There is no routine here; there is no boredom.

  

  Osric Chau
  • Different
  • Character
  • Experience

• One thing I really hate is experience. Experience for me doesn't work. Everybody's talking about experience this, experience that.

  

  Yohan Blake
  • Work
  • Experience
  • Hate

• I realized I had been keeping people around even when deep down I knew they were bad for me. I had overridden myself.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • People
  • Bad
  • Myself

• I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.

  

  Randy Quaid
  • Alone
  • Space
  • Creative

• He who awaits much can expect little.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Expect
  • Little
  • Much

• You can have everything in the world and still be the loneliest man. And that is the most bitter type of loneliness, success has brought me world idolisation and millions of pounds. But it's prevented me from having the one thing we all need: A loving, ongoing relationship.

  

  Freddie Mercury Queen
  • World
  • Success
  • Relationship

• I was a hyperactive kid, and it took awhile for me to find the right teacher. My master was a Shaolin kung fu teacher, but he also taught tai chi, Chinese medicine, brush painting - he was adept at all facets of Chinese culture.

  

  Daniel Wu
  • Culture
  • Teacher
  • Painting

• [My characters are] conglomerations of past and present stages of civilization, bits from books and newspapers, scraps of humanity, rags and tatters of fine clothing, patched together as is the human soul.

  

  August Strindberg
  • Together
  • Soul
  • Past

• I shudder when I think of the calamities which slavery is likely to produce in this country. You would think me mad if I were to describe my anticipations… If the gangrene is not stopped I can see nothing but insurrection of the blacks against the whites.

  

  John Adams
  • Country
  • Mad
  • Slavery

• How mad would it actually be to do an 'Avatar' type animation film, but about something mundane like a Winn-Dixie cashier's day at work? That'd be something else, I think.

  

  Diplo
  • Work
  • Mad

• There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Mad
  • Sane
  • Madman