Rene Descartes Quotes

Give me extension and motion and I will construct the universe.

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• I am definitely romantic, and I love romantic stories - that's why I keep making romantic movies.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Love
  • Movies
  • Stories

• It's a fine balance for an athlete in enjoying the moment and being really satisfied, say, with a run, and with your day, and knowing you can make it better in the future.

  

  Hannah Kearney
  • Future
  • Day
  • Balance

• To think that guys who grew up in the '60s would make a miniseries supporting the idea that Oswald acted alone is something I certainly wouldn't have predicted. But time and evidence can change the way we view things.

  

  Gary Goetzman
  • Up
  • Time
  • Change

• One of the greatest gifts I've ever gotten is my daughter.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Daughter
  • Greatest
  • Gifts

• I think awards are good for the movie. They can bring a new audience to the movie. I've always claimed that things like that don't get you work. Work gets you work. That's my blue-collar, protestant work ethic.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Good
  • Work
  • Movie

• You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.

  

  Harold Prince
  • You
  • Couple
  • Years

• To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Wind
  • Lie
  • Anchor

• My father is very dry and very quick-witted, and my mother is very silly. It was the perfect combination because I got an education in physical and verbal comedy.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Education

• I don't need a piece of paper to suggest that I can commit myself.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Myself
  • Need
  • Paper

• You can't hold up a blog; you can hold up a magazine.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Up
  • You
  • Hold

• If you want to call me names, make jokes and doubt my intentions, go ahead, because the reality is I can take it.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Reality
  • Me
  • Doubt

• I'm so proud of my Chinese ancestry, but I was born and raised in America, and I really believe in American values, our American system, our freedom, our liberties.

  

  Gary Locke
  • Believe
  • American
  • America

• I am very shy with people I don't know.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Shy

• Admiration takes on a whole new level when you appreciate just how complex it is to run a modern business.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Business
  • Appreciate
  • Run

• I saw men go up and down, In the country and the town, With this tablet on their neck,- 'Judgement and a judge we seek.' Not to monarchs they repair, Nor to learned jurist's chair; But they hurry to their peers, To their kinsfolk and their dears; Louder than with speech they pray,- 'What am I? companion, say.'

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Up
  • Men
  • Country

• Has there ever been a revolution that produced something better than what it overthrew? The only thing people learn from being oppressed is how to oppress others!

  

  Kage Baker
  • People
  • Revolution

• There never was a bad man that had ability for good service.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Service

• I treat paintings as I treat objects. If a window in a picture looks wrong, I close it and draw the curtains, just as I would do in my own room.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Picture

• I guess the thing I would say most fervently is that your original impulse to write something is an impulse you should trust, and that if it doesn't work on the first draft, which it hardly ever does, the commitment to revising ought to be something you embrace really early. And to revise and revise and revise.

  

  Antonya Nelson
  • Work
  • Trust
  • Commitment

• Meaning doesn't lie in things. Meaning lies in us. When we attach value to things that aren't love - the money, the car, the house, the prestige - we are loving things that can't love us back. We are searching for meaning in the meaningless. Money, of itself, means nothing. Material things, of themselves, mean nothing. It's not that they're bad. It's that they're nothing. ("A Return to Love")

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Money
  • Love
  • Bad

• When the guy says go, you start to suffer - or you might as well not be out there. It's a small piece of your life, make it hurt.

  

  Aaron Cox
  • Life
  • Suffer
  • Piece

• The prosperity of Masonry as a means of strengthening our religion and propagating true brotherly love, is one of the dearest wishes of my heart, which, I trust, will be gratified by the help of the Grand Architect of the Universe.

  

  William Howard Taft
  • True
  • Universe
  • Religion

• Give me extension and motion and I will construct the universe.

  

  Rene Descartes
  • Universe
  • Motion
  • Construct