Richard L. Evans Quotes

Remember to build each other up, to strengthen and sustain, to keep companionship lovely and alive. Remember dignity and respect; understanding; not expecting perfection; a sense of humor and a sense of what is sacred and serious; common purposes, common convictions, and the character to stay with a bargain, to keep a covenant - in these are the making of a good and solid marriage.

Richard L. Evans

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• Darling, when you're as old as I am, you cherish the very few musicals that have come your way that you know are great classics. You become their guardian.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Musicals
  • Guardian
  • Classics

• Architecture begins where engineering ends.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Architecture
  • Engineering

• I'm not going to be able to play it like somebody else.

  

  Sam J. Jones
  • Play
  • Like
  • Going

• In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can't afford it. And I refuse to renew them again.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Society
  • Worth
  • Tax

• I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Actor
  • Director
  • Rely

• I never participated in far-reaching political decisions, since I never belonged to the circle of the closest associates of Adolf Hitler, neither was I consulted by Adolf Hitler on general political questions, nor did I ever take part in conferences about such problems.

  

  Hans Frank
  • Political
  • Decisions

• I moved to Milan when I was 15. I was always looking for something; I never really felt like I belonged where I was, so I went to live overseas.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Live
  • Never
  • Looking

• Originally, 'The Windup Girl' started as a short story - a very gnarly, complicated short story set in Bangkok that didn't work very well.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Work
  • Girl
  • Short

• What fools call 'wasting time' is most often the best investment.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Time

• I was forgetting how it really was, I was remembering it through common, ordinary eyes, I was remembering it as the boy I was before, but now I remember that it wasn't me being weak or me being naked, or anything else that I should be ashamed of.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Remember
  • Eyes
  • Boy

• Oh, Thou who Man of baser Earth didst make, And ev'n with Paradise devise the Snake: For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man Is blacken'd - Man's forgiveness give - and take!

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Earth
  • Forgiveness
  • Paradise

• I break ground. I trailblaze.

  

  Dwayne Johnson

• I grew up with a concept of cinema as a directorial thing, meaning the director is allowed to sail the ship. Not a dictatorial thing.

  

  Luca Guadagnino
  • Up

• People are sensible enough to know who's dragging my name in dirt for publicity.

  

  Karan Patel
  • People

• In America, there's more of the question, should music be political or should it just be for entertainment purposes, whereas around the world that's not even an issue. I think people just assume that music should be everything.

  

  Serj Tankian System Of A Down
  • People
  • World
  • Music

• Education standards need to be set at the state level. High standards are an important way to ensure that the education system we are funding is actually working and producing, at a minimum, what we would expect it to.

  

  Doug Ducey
  • Important
  • High
  • Education

• Sometimes when I'm really enjoying a book, I'll read a sentence or paragraph and just think - how can someone's head be wired in such a way that they'd come up with that?

  

  Joe Abercrombie
  • Up
  • Book

• When I run barefoot, I put my shoes on my hands. Running around with shoe-hands looks a little weird.

  

  Danny Pudi
  • Running
  • Weird
  • Shoes

• I think the '60s and '70s were the peak period for the singer-songwriter, for sure.

  

  Andrew Gold
  • Period

• Our research centres are everywhere, in India, China, Turkey, Japan, and we all work as a team all the time.

  

  Pranav Mistry
  • Time
  • Work
  • Team

• One of the most important jobs of a great leader is to attract great talent.

  

  Joe Lonsdale
  • Great
  • Important

• I used to do a lot of serious theatre during my school and college days. Comedy was only reserved for youth festival and inter-college competitions. Then once 'The Great Indian Laughter Challenge' was launched, a regional channel in Punjab started a program based on that. I participated in it and emerged as the winner.

  

  Kapil Sharma
  • Great
  • School
  • College

• Remember to build each other up, to strengthen and sustain, to keep companionship lovely and alive. Remember dignity and respect; understanding; not expecting perfection; a sense of humor and a sense of what is sacred and serious; common purposes, common convictions, and the character to stay with a bargain, to keep a covenant - in these are the making of a good and solid marriage.

  

  Richard L. Evans
  • Character
  • Purpose
  • Understanding