Charles Garfield Quotes

It takes no genius to observe that a one-man band never gets very big

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• It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Law
  • Me
  • Seems

• There's always the ongoing actor frustration of finding the great role to do next. I don't go to work a lot. I wait as long as I can until the money runs out or a great part comes along.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Work
  • Great
  • Long

• The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • People
  • High
  • Day

• I guess I'd be put in the ID politics camp. But there is really nothing in the world-view of, say, Bernie Sanders I actually disagree with. I'd like a guaranteed income, single-payer health care, a stronger safety net, etc. The problem is the temptation to paper over historically fraught issues to achieve that is tempting.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • World
  • Health
  • Single

• PETA's campaign should be included in school curricula. If we can open children's hearts and minds to animals' needs, teach them to treat a dog or a chicken as if they feel fear and love and pain - as they do - then they will grow up to understand that we are all worthy of respect.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Up
  • Children
  • School

• The extras are a nice bonus feature, but the main incentive is the musical experience.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Experience
  • Nice
  • Bonus

• I'm not an ardent feminist - well, maybe I am an ardent feminist. I just roll my eyes at the way women are constantly used and how sensitive men are about photographs of themselves.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Men
  • Women
  • Eyes

• It was all men, and there I was prancing around in gowns that barely got past the censors.

  

  Karen Morley
  • Men
  • Past
  • Got

• They forbade me from flying, despite all my protests and arguments. After being once in space, I was desperately keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Me
  • Space
  • Flying

• I am attracted to intelligence, a witty sense of humor, an adventurous outlook on life and spiritual awareness about one's self and the world.

  

  Tanit Phoenix
  • Life
  • World
  • Spiritual

• If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Why
  • Sports
  • Matter

• I don't think there's more than half-a-dozen cartoons that I've been really truly happy with in all the time I've been doing it.

  

  Pat Oliphant
  • Time
  • Happy
  • Doing

• Our epoch is a time of tragic collision between matter and spirit and of the downfall of the purely material world view.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Time
  • World
  • View

• Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Life
  • Slavery
  • Shadows

• You’ve got to get the fundamentals down because otherwise the fancy stuff isn’t going to work.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Work

• Peace is far more preferable to war.… I believe that peace is the only path to true security. … And there is no question that the only path to peace is through negotiations.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Believe
  • War
  • True

• If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture...In a house, we all feel of the proper proportions. Everything is subordinated to us, fashioned for our use and our pleasure.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Nature
  • Pleasure
  • Mankind

• Shelley was kicked out of Oxford-I think the story is unauthenticated, but who cares-because he painted a sign on the end wall of a dead-end alley: THIS WAY TO HEAVEN. I feel that every now and then his sign needs repainting.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Heaven
  • Wall

• When your enemy is doing something wrong, do not interrupt him.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Enemy
  • Wrong
  • Interrupt

• Basically, in our society, you can never fix anything enough. The minute you get your head above water about one thing, they let you know that 12 other things about you suck. It's like playing 'Self-Esteem Whack-A-Mole.'

  

  Lisa Ann Walter
  • Society
  • Water

• I wonder if Eve could write letters in Paradise! But, poor Eve, she had no one to write to - no one to whom to tell what Eden was, no beloved child to whom her love traveled through any or all space. Poor Eve!

  

  Catharine Sedgwick
  • Writing
  • Children
  • Wonder

• I don't feel ashamed to be loud, which is an argument I've had with lots of men, who thought I was too sassy and unladylike.

  

  SZA
  • Men
  • Sassy

• It is commonly said that men are forward to believe whatever is connected with their own interest. This in common cases is true; but it is also true, that when some very great and unexpected good news is brought to us, we find it very difficult to credit it.

  

  Archibald Alexander
  • Good
  • Great
  • Believe

• It takes no genius to observe that a one-man band never gets very big

  

  Charles Garfield
  • Men
  • Band
  • Genius