Nicholas von Hoffman Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
-
You never know when your future wife might be in the stands.
-
The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
-
Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
-
But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements.
-
National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.
-
Some persons have ventured to say that it is only since Englishmen ceased to believe in the Bible that they began to discover how beautiful it was.
-
I've had a few ditty hits.
-
Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been.
-
I prefer to underplay scenes rather than, you know, be big and drive them. And sometimes you have to do that, but I like the more natural styles.
-
I'm obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think that's extremely compelling and interesting and really relies on the acting, even more so than when you have an actor speaking.
-
Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is subtler than the atom. That which is behind the mind, namely the individual soul, is subtler than the mind.
-
To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.
-
When I was 11 years old, I was a member of 'Press Pack,' which was a thing that would come out in 'The Sunday Times' in England. You'd write articles and send them off and would get a badge saying 'Official Press.' I was really excited about my badge.
-
I live my life day by day, and that's how I continue to live it.
-
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
-
Good style - regardless of fads - means the thing that suits your body.
-
'Analyze This' is a good movie because Robert De Niro and Billy Crystal are really good. But without the material to put on the play, of course, they couldn't be good. For me, it starts with the writing. I always think that the writer is doing the vast majority of the director's work, in a sense.
-
He couldn't see a belt without hitting below it.
-
When I was little, I was very loud and loved performing in front of people. I was fearless. When I hit puberty, I became very shy and self-conscious. I still get nervous sometimes before shooting and definitely before big auditions.
-
Reform is the mission from which we shall not digress; it is an expression of belief and determination between us and our people. With the help of Allah, we will proceed forward in this promising national process within the natural progress of the life cycle and the development of people and nation.
-
The concept of happiness has to be reorganised.
-
I am not someone who is afraid; I am someone who reasons.
-
We are the people are parents warned us against.
