Anthony Lane Quotes
That's the trouble with cookbooks. Like sex education and nuclear physics, they are founded on an illusion. They bespeak order, but they end in tears.
Quotes to Explore
-
Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.
-
I just don't think the title 'MJ's daughter' fits me.
-
I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
-
But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject of myth, sort of like Grendel in Beowulf - you know, not seen very often but often talked about.
-
Take life slowly and deliberately, making sure to acknowledge the people who have helped you succeed along the way.
-
From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example, Python and Ruby provide almost the same power to the programmer.
-
For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.
-
The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
-
We all have hierarchies at work - even on set, the runner would never walk up to the director and ask for a cup of coffee.
-
I've had some threaten not to give Communion to me, even though they don't know my position, just because I'm a Democrat. I've had cardinals refuse to shake my hand because I'm a Democrat.
-
The U.S. government has known since the early 1990s about Soviet-era smallpox weapons, and collected circumstantial evidence of programs elsewhere.
-
I've never had a relationship with a record executive. I always went to the record company by someone that liked my playing. Then they would get fired, and I'd be left with the record company. And then – because they got fired – the record company wouldn't do anything for me.
-
Guns are the ultimate bulwark against government misbehavior.
-
'The Exorcist' is the scariest movie ever made. It just felt dead-on real, like you were watching the existence of the devil.
-
Every commodity is compelled to chose some other commodity for its equivalent.
-
'And the sad fact is that all nanotech life out of our control-out of anyone’s control. The essence of nanotech life’s evolution is autonomy, self-will, and goals which have nothing to do with those of the harboring life form.''Humanity, you mean,' said Lourdusamy.'Precisely.'
-
Nobuddy ever listened t' reason on a empty stomach.
-
I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
-
What slavery really demonstrated was that we don't really know how to use energy wisely and that we can be incredibly abusive and barbaric.
-
I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's cool. Let's look at who Billie was: she was this person, this singer, this beautiful diva who could move the audience with the slightest gesture of her hand.
-
One of my favorite places in San-Francisco is Aunt Charlies drag show. You pay $3 and see shows that literally give you goose bumps and bring you to tears. As a performer, you know they're giving 100% and you can't help but cry.
-
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
-
That's the trouble with cookbooks. Like sex education and nuclear physics, they are founded on an illusion. They bespeak order, but they end in tears.
