Ray Winstone Quotes

As a sex symbol, I don't know what is appealing to women. I think it's the way you treat women that makes you sexy if you like.

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• Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Fall
  • Woman
  • Grace

• Without being aware, I think I was being indoctrinated into what was called Vitalism, the idea that what makes life worth living, the good life, consists of accepting challenges, solving problems, discovery, personal growth, personal change.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Life
  • Good
  • Change

• I like the language in Proust but not the context.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Like
  • Language
  • Context

• Being in love is the best thing in my life.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Life
  • Love
  • Best

• Kochi, formerly called Cochin, is a former European settlement with a large Christian population and a seafaring heritage. It is a town of enormous charm that reminds some visitors of the Caribbean more than India.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Christian
  • India
  • Heritage

• I had seen AIDS patients in India and Africa, and knowing that people were dying even though drugs existed that could help them was shattering for me.

  

  Yusuf Hamied
  • People
  • Help
  • Dying

• I have never been able to pay attention to anything for more than a few minutes - the stories in my head have always been so much more entertaining. Only books could pull me out of my own imagination, and then it was only to plunge me into someone else's.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Me
  • Attention
  • Imagination

• Music is like a lifeblood - it changes the way I move; it changes the way I feel about myself. The way I walk into the room is different depending on the song I was just listening to.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Music
  • Different
  • Song

• In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville

• I don't perform. Seals perform.

  

  Morrissey The Smiths

• I love writing.

  

  Bonnie Hunt
  • Writing

• The opening of 'There Will Be Blood' with that score and then deafening silence was memorable.

  

  Jenny Scheinman
  • Silence

• The best ally you can have in breaking up a street fight is a grandmother.

  

  Joe Bob Briggs
  • Up
  • Grandmother

• I think one of the things that was a huge surprise to everyone with 'Silence of the Lambs' was that that was an Oscar-winning horror movie. It struck such a nerve with audiences that it was a very particular, special experience.

  

  Bryan Fuller
  • Experience
  • Movie
  • Winning

• We were discussing civilization and the fact that young men among the Greeks at that time were idiots and uneducated, so the men had emotional and friendly relationships with members of their own sex.

  

  Marion Zimmer Bradley
  • Time
  • Men
  • Emotional

• If you're in Hollywood, with no track record, it's pretty odds-on that you can get swamped and overwhelmed by the sheer scale of it all; particularly with the intense commercial push that you feel there.

  

  Lenny Abrahamson
  • Pretty

• The atheistic idea is so nonsensical that I cannot put it into words.

  

  Lord Kelvin
  • Words

• I love hip-hop and you can't tell me I'm not a hip-hop artist.

  

  Derek Luke

• Banking, as far as I can tell, seems to be almost as precise a science as using a slot machine. You either blindly hope for the best, delude yourself into thinking you've worked out a system, or open it up when no one's looking and rig the settings so it'll pay out illegally.

  

  Charlie Brooker
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Hope

• I think the whole human-induced greenhouse gas thing is a red herring... . I see climate change as due to the ocean circulation pattern. I see this as a major cause of climate change... . These are natural processes. We shouldn't blame them on humans and CO2.

  

  William M. Gray
  • Thinking
  • Humans
  • Process

• If there is effort, there is always accomplishment.

  

  Kano Jigoro
  • Effort
  • Accomplishment
  • Martial Arts

• How can people be anything but ignorant when knowledge isn’t saved, isn’t taught?

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • People
  • Knowledge

• I was faced with a choice: to deny my addiction and embrace that 'comfortably numb' but 'magicless' existence, or accept the burden of insight, take the road less travelled, and embark on the often painful journey to discover who I was and where I fit.

  

  Roger Waters Pink Floyd
  • Journey
  • Existence
  • Choice

• As a sex symbol, I don't know what is appealing to women. I think it's the way you treat women that makes you sexy if you like.

  

  Ray Winstone
  • Thinking
  • Symbols