Richard Widmark Quotes

I loved Jack Ford. I got him in his later days, and he was a total tyrant and a total autocrat and an Irish drunk. But I had a great time.

Richard Widmark

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• Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • World
  • Business
  • Kings

• When I was in high school,we were, like, 4,000 or 5,000 students, and 50 girls - and I didn't have a date for my prom. My father paid my cousin to take me.

  

  Iman
  • School
  • High
  • Father

• I think about food literally all day every day. It's a thing.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Food
  • Day
  • Everyday

• I was not really aware of the dystopian genre before I read 'The Handmaid's Tale.' Many poets as well, like John Donne and Emily Dickinson, would be the influences; I specialized in Emily Dickinson at university. Both of those poets have really interesting ways of looking at life and death.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Life
  • Death
  • Interesting

• I always find Victoria's Secret models a bit weird.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • Always
  • Weird
  • Find

• I feel like great TED Talks are ones that are a little bit subject to interpretation, that do provoke further conversation - and potentially controversy.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Great
  • Feel
  • Conversation

• I was in a group called Wild Orchid and it just wasn't working. I wasn't being myself. What I should have done was say. 'Girls, it's really time for me to go on my own. I need to fulfill this dream of mine to have a solo album.' And I didn't know how to do that. I wanted to please them.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Time
  • Dream
  • Working

• It's because I have no sense of shame that I'm always willing to give things a go: I've ridden horses naked into the sea, I've climbed rocks, all kinds of things.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
  • Always
  • Sea
  • Rocks

• I always wish I could go back and see the people that I love as children.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • People
  • Children
  • Love

• 'And how are you?', said Winnie-the-Pooh. (...)'Not very how', he said. 'I don't seem to have felt at all how for a long time.'

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Time
  • Long

• 'I sometimes think,' said the Eternal, 'that the stars never shine more brightly than when reflected in the muddy waters of a wayside ditch.'

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Shine

• Jury - A group of twelve men who, having lied to the judge about their hearing, health and business engagements, have failed to fool him.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Men
  • Business
  • Health

• It took dominion everywhere. The jar was gray and bare. It did not give of bird or bush, Like nothing else in Tennessee.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Bird

• I think I'm happier with that. $rubyometer += 0.3 or so.

  

  Larry Wall

• There is no such thing as a Republican position on Zika or Democrat position on Zika because these mosquitoes bite everyone, and they're not going to ask you what your party registration is or who you plan to vote for in November.

  

  Marco Rubio
  • Party
  • November

• I remember plastering the kitchen with Black Power pictures of Angela Davis.

  

  Mary Beard
  • Power
  • Remember
  • Black

• You can't be afraid to not have everything figured out. There's too much pressure on young people today to have it all figured out when they're in college.

  

  Charlie Trotter
  • People
  • Today
  • College

• Put three grains of sand inside a vast cathedral, and the cathedral will be more closely packed with sand than space is with stars.

  

  James Jeans
  • Space

• But you know, I'm just not a quitter.

  

  David Duval

• People have said on blogs - which is kind of where I decide where to describe my style, from other people telling me - so I don't know, people say it's like, "electro-pop with glam and old rock influences." Or it's "indie pop" or whatever that means.

  

  Børns
  • People
  • Mean
  • Influence

• A solitary ascetic is a symbol of the most cowardly egotism; a hermit who flees from his brothers instead of helping them to carry the burden of life, to work for others, and to put their shoulders to the wheel of social life, is a coward who hides himself when the battle is on, and goes to sleep drunk on an opiate.

  

  H. P. Blavatsky
  • Life
  • Work
  • Sleep

• Looking good kept me out of trouble. When I worked for Michael Alig, everybody was overdoing partying. It would take me so long to get ready, because I was never one of those girls that were naturally the cover of Vogue. I had to really work hard to look nice. I would take hours and hours to get ready. If you have high heels on, if you're dressed nice, you really can't be drunk or sloppy because it's dangerous. It's part of being a lady, so it really kept me out of trouble.

  

  Amanda Lepore
  • Long
  • Trouble
  • Dangerous

• It flows through old hushed Egypt and its sands,Like some grave mighty thought threading a dream,And times and things, as in that vision, seemKeeping along it their eternal stands.

  

  Leigh Hunt
  • Dream
  • Vision

• I loved Jack Ford. I got him in his later days, and he was a total tyrant and a total autocrat and an Irish drunk. But I had a great time.

  

  Richard Widmark
  • Times
  • Drunk
  • Tyrants