Winona Ryder Quotes

When I was young, I was really, really obsessed with Gena Rowlands and John Cassavetes. Because my mom was a projectionist in college, she was somehow able to get a real projector. And she had some connections, so she would get real prints, and we'd put up a sheet. The first movies I saw were To Kill a Mockingbird 1962, Gigi 1958, A Woman Under the Influence 1974. Then when I was old enough to be able to rent movies, I went through a very big Cassavetes phase.

Winona Ryder

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• When I was writing 'The Satanic Verses,' if you had asked me about the phenomenon that we all now know as radical Islam, I wouldn't have had much to say. As recently as the mid-1980s, it didn't seem to be a big deal.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Writing
  • Deal
  • Islam

• It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Death
  • Cause
  • Martyr

• I play the guitar. This year at the Sundance film festival, I joined the band from 'The Guitar' on stage. We warmed up for Patti Smith, and then the director Michel Gondry got on the drums to play some songs from the soundtrack to his film Be Kind Rewind with Mos Def. It was pretty mad.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Band

• It is high time that the Arab world's professed desire for peace is matched by responsible action, and not more of the same equivocation.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Time
  • World
  • High

• I used to love it when I walked down the street and construction workers would whistle.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Street
  • Workers
  • Construction

• I was never afraid of anything in the world except the dentist.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • World
  • Afraid
  • Dentist

• What is the benefit of fasting in our body while filling our souls with innumerable evils? He who does not play at dice, but spends his leisure otherwise, what nonsense does he not utter? What absurdities does he not listen to? Leisure without the fear of God is, for those who do not know how to use time, the teacher of wickedness.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Time
  • God
  • Fear

• If you love something, you have to stay really focused and can't let outside things distract you.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Love
  • Focused
  • Outside

• When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Respect
  • Yourself
  • Content

• The fact that I am still alive after 100,000 laps is my championship.

  

  Jacky Ickx
  • Alive
  • Championship

• Every so often I'll go back down to earth and I'll make reference to a phone or a house or something, something that's a bit more real. But I suppose what that does, is it puts you in a surreal place but also my music doesn't get too carried away in that sense, which I quite like.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Music
  • Real
  • House

• I was feeling it. I felt like that put us in a good position to win the game at that point.

  

  Ashley Johnson
  • Good
  • Game
  • Feeling

• I've got the Jewish guilt and the Irish shame and it's a hell of a job distinguishing which is which.

  

  Kevin Kline
  • Job
  • Jobs
  • Hell

• Attack your instruments. Don't let them attack you.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Instruments
  • Attack

• When the Higher Man does something worthy of admiration, it is an evidence of his Mastership, not the object of it.

  

  Idries Shah
  • Evidence
  • Object
  • Mastership

• I was surprised to learn that research showed arranged couples tended to be happier in the long run.

  

  Aziz Ansari
  • Long
  • Research
  • Run

• For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves. And even more I revere them when they stand alone. They are like lonely persons. Not like hermits who have stolen away out of some weakness, but like great, solitary men, like Beethoven and Nietzsche.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Weakness
  • Families
  • Preachers

• My goal for 'Black Rock' was pretty simple: I wanted to make the feel-good record of the summer.

  

  Joe Bonamassa Black Country Communion
  • Pretty
  • Black
  • Goal

• Entrepreneurship is an art, not a job.

  

  Steve Blank
  • Art
  • Job
  • Entrepreneurship

• At the end of our lives, we will not be judged by the highest public office we attained in our lifetime, if that were true the current president George W. Bush would hold as much esteem as Franklin Roosevelt in our country, and Nelson Mandela in his. That cannot be the case. Rather, we will each be judged by the mark we've left on others.

  

  Elizabeth Edwards
  • President
  • Lifetime
  • Judged

• By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Country
  • Want

• Our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all and thought to include all; but now, to aid in making the bondage of the Negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, sneered at, construed, hawked at, and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Thought
  • Now
  • Independence

• When I was young, I was really, really obsessed with Gena Rowlands and John Cassavetes. Because my mom was a projectionist in college, she was somehow able to get a real projector. And she had some connections, so she would get real prints, and we'd put up a sheet. The first movies I saw were To Kill a Mockingbird 1962, Gigi 1958, A Woman Under the Influence 1974. Then when I was old enough to be able to rent movies, I went through a very big Cassavetes phase.

  

  Winona Ryder
  • Obsessed
  • Gena Rowlands
  • John Cassavetes