Richard Le Gallienne Quotes
A critic is a man created to praise greater men than himself, but he is never able to find them.
Quotes to Explore
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When my first child was born in 1962, I wrote a letter to my grandfather telling him how happy I was but how concerned; concerned because there were so many visions which were not very good.
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I was a pop-music junkie. My parents were into Frank Sinatra and Doris Day. They weren't too excited when I had Aretha or the Stones pumping.
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Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
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There is no myth relative to the manners and customs of the English that in my experience is more tenaciously held by the ordinary Frenchman than that the sale of a wife in the market-place is an habitual and an accepted fact in English life.
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I'm not very bright about money. I'm not domestic either. If I don't learn how to cook, maybe I won't have to.
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The health benefits of paid sick days policies are obvious. They prevent the spread of disease. But the impact is wider. If a working mom or dad loses a job because of sickness, the family may slip into poverty.
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As far as the grunge thing, there are three bands from Seattle that I would call true grunge.
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It's an advantage having a limited output. When George Gershwin is asked to play his repertoire, he plays all evening. I just play 'Lady Play Your Mandolin' and I'm through.
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Im gonna be something one of these days.
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We discover and invent new ways of finding out the same old things.
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The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach.
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My mission is to give girls the tools to be able to blossom into their best selves.
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She can kill with a smile. She can wound with her eyes. She can ruin your faith with her casual lies. And she only reveals what she wants you to see. She hides like a child, but she's always a woman to me.
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The world is a holographic universe, with every piece containing the whole.
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It's very hard for someone who makes $1,000 a year or some who makes less than $1 a day to care about the environment.
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My greatest concern was what to call it. I thought of calling it ‘information’, but the word was overly used, so I decided to call it ‘uncertainty’. When I discussed it with John von Neumann, he had a better idea. Von Neumann told me, “You should call it entropy, for two reasons. In the first place your uncertainty function has been used in statistical mechanics under that name, so it already has a name. In the second place, and more important, nobody knows what entropy really is, so in a debate you will always have the advantage.”
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There are so many sitcoms. So, when you get to be a part of something that feels exciting to you, you just want to be a part of it.
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I enjoy making people laugh. The trick is to tell them jokes against yourself. If you praise yourself, your stories aren't funny.
