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

• At the beginning, I experienced writing as a sort of constraint. Starting so young as a writer is pitiable: it's beyond your powers; you have to lay bare things that are very heavy, and you don't have the means for that.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Writing
  • Beginning
  • Starting

• 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

• The referendum of 5th July will stay in history as a unique moment when a small European nation rose up against debt-bondage...

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Up
  • History
  • Small

• '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

• Sarasota-Bradenton is a unique community to live in.

  

  Carlos Beruff
  • Live
  • Community
  • Unique

• Too bad, Matson thought archly, that George Hoffman didn’t discover more planets in more star systems habitable by us, the frail needs of living, sentient, mentating biochemical upright bipeds which we humans are.

  

  Philip K. Dick
  • Bad
  • Star

• I wanted to join a company where I woke up every morning and felt happy : I wanted to build a better solution to deliver happiness to the WebEx customers, that's it.

  

  Eric Yuan
  • Morning
  • Company
  • Wanted

• The central problem in Syria is that Sunni Arabs will not be willing partners against the Islamic State unless we commit to protect them and the broader Syrian population against all enemies, not just ISIS.

  

  David Petraeus
  • Islamic

• "Best in the world," "lowest price in existence, " etc are at best claiming the expected. But superlative of that sort are usually damaging. They suggestion looseness of expression, a tendency to exaggerate, a careless truth. They lead readers to discount all the statements that you make.

  

  Claude C. Hopkins
  • World
  • Truth
  • Price

• 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