Anthony Standen Quotes

Physicists, being in no way different from the rest of the population, have short memories for what is inconvenient.

Anthony Standen

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• We all go to the theater and cinema to be inspired and moved on an emotional level, sometimes to laughter, sometimes to tears. Once I discovered that acting could have such an effect, I was sold. It has been one of the most rewarding discoveries I have ever made.

  

  Ian Anthony Dale
  • Emotional
  • Acting
  • Inspired

• Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Growth
  • Ambition
  • Proceeds

• I'm originally from San Francisco. I might move there some day. But, I like L.A., I have fun in L.A. It's a fun town if you've got money in your pocket. It's a good town.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Good
  • Money
  • Fun

• What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Faith
  • Kind
  • Speculation

• I have to be socially aware; I feel like that's my job.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Job
  • Like
  • Feel

• I really feel it's time to dissolve the current relationship of governor and lieutenant governor by running as a ticket.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Time
  • Relationship
  • Running

• And when you start talking about the practicality of winning a race like that - you've got to remember we're not talking about winning 51 percent of the vote. We're talking about winning 36, 37, 38 percent of the vote.

  

  Hamilton Jordan
  • Remember
  • Winning
  • Start

• You are only three or four hours from taking your glasses off for keeps.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard

• 'Sight-seeing is the art of disappointment,' I quoted.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Art
  • Disappointment

• If the Lord - who is the light of all things - vouchsafe to enlighten me, I will treat of Light; wherefore I will divide the present work into 3 Parts... Linear Perspective, The Perspective of Colour, The Perspective of Disappearance.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Work
  • Light
  • Present

• 'You're no help,' he told the lime. This was unfair. It was only a lime; there was nothing special about it at all. It was doing the best it could.

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • Help

• Obviously, I'm at the beginning of my career, contrary to what anyone else thinks. I'm 19 years old. In any other country, everywhere else, you're a prospect. And that's what I am right now in Europe. I'm a prospect. I'm not a seasoned veteran.

  

  Freddy Adu
  • Country
  • Career
  • Beginning

• The greatest hockey player who ever lived: Bobby Orr, and I love him.

  

  Donald Stewart Cherry
  • Player
  • Hockey

• The cinema is there to heighten the imagination; I have always tried to make sure it does so.

  

  Ken Adam
  • Imagination

• Can you design a Rorschach test that's going to make everyone feel something every time - and that looks like a Rorschach test? It's easy to show a picture of a kitten or a car accident. The question is, how abstract can you get and still get the audience to feel something when they don't know what's happening to them?

  

  Jason Reitman
  • Time
  • Question
  • Car

• One of the great things about the 'Arrow' crew is that no one is settling for what they did yesterday. They're always thinking about what they can do tomorrow.

  

  Marc Guggenheim
  • Great
  • Thinking

• My mission today is to go forth and tell people about why I follow Christ and also what the Bible teaches, and part of that teaching is that women and men are meant to be together. However, I would never treat anyone with disrespect just because they are different from me. We are all created by the Almighty and like Him, I love all of humanity.

  

  Phil Robertson
  • People
  • Men
  • Different

• Roman history was kind of unavoidable where I was growing up. It was everywhere - all the place names and ruins and forts. My dad's a history buff, and I spent a lot of time on Hadrian's Wall. I became fascinated by the idea of what was so terrifying up there that the Romans built a 60-mile long, 30ft high stone wall to keep it out?

  

  Neil Marshall
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• To make the journey without falling deeply in love, you haven't lived a life at all. You have to try, because if you haven't tried, then you haven't lived

  

  William Parrish
  • Trying
  • Journey
  • Havens

• I have a strange relationship with influences because mine are mostly literary or painters or poets, who I'll even quote. I don't do tributes to cinema.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Relationship
  • Cinema

• It's the most annoying question and they just can't help asking you. You'll be asked it at family gatherings, weddings, and on first dates. And you'll ask yourself far too often. It's the question that has no good answer. It's the question that when people stop asking it, you'll feel even worse. - WHY ARE YOU SINGLE?

  

  Liz Tuccillo
  • People
  • Good
  • Family

• No one has schizophrenia, like having a cold. The patient has not "got" schizophrenia. He is schizophrenic.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Cold

• In the theory of psycho-analysis we have no hesitation in assuming that the course taken by mental events is automatically regulated by the pleasure principle. We believe, that is to say, that the course of those events is invariably set in motion by an unpleasurable tension, and that it takes a direction such that its final outcome coincides with a lowering of that tension that is, with an avoidance of unpleasure or a production of pleasure.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Events
  • Theory
  • Mental

• Physicists, being in no way different from the rest of the population, have short memories for what is inconvenient.

  

  Anthony Standen
  • Memories
  • Physicists
  • Inconvenient