William Henry Drummond Quotes
There can be no greatness in things. Things cannot be great. The only greatness is unselfish love.
Quotes to Explore
-
The next step for me with the Up is how it talks with the rest of the home. It's an object that can tell the home where I am and what I'm doing.
-
I'm glad I went through all the normal teenage dramas that a lot of people go through. I can really relate to 'Secret Life' because I witnessed those similar struggles.
-
In the CIA, they recruit you to be an officer, an ops officer, in part due to how well you cope with stress and how well you adapt to new situations.
-
If the Russian nuclear arsenal was fired at the United States and other targets, and we fired back at them with thousands of nuclear weapons, it would be the end of life on earth.
-
It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
-
I felt within myself that I needed to change what I was doing. I needed a new stimuli. So the interest from Manchester United was a perfect fit.
-
Reverence is fatal to literature.
-
English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
-
I would love the opportunity to create my own program. I feel like a TV show with a format of monologue with lots of sketches thrown in could be really fun. But you know, that may never happen. Minimally, I just want to keep making stand-up.
-
The biggest killer of people is food.
-
Jesus Christ was a patriot! His country was the world. His laws were the eternal principles of liberty, and his followers, in every age, have been the chosen champions of freedom!
-
Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
-
All the skills of housewifery are the ones I'm using as a producer.
-
I do like being busy. I'm not the kind of person who just sits around and goes to a spa when I'm not working.
-
I felt like I had two fathers. I had my real father and the father in my head.
-
I wish I wasn't so in love, wasn't so interested, in the Internet. I wish I spent less time online and more time outside and in my head. Writing requires solitude and deep, deep daydreaming, and the Internet just kills that - its lure is toward the external; it asks you to flit from place to place.
-
It's a constant challenge trying to find balance between styling, designing and being a mom.
-
Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.
-
It's important that period films aren't seen as just a lovely visual exercise.
-
On 'Swingtown,' I think that's when I was able to blend the character-slash-leading lady roles, and that's what I'm doing on 'Once Upon a Time' as well. She's a leading lady, but she's also this character.
-
Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.
-
Comedy and tragedy are two sides of the same coin. A talent in one area might also lead to a predisposition in the other.
-
Active creation is conceived as a transitive action in which there is always presupposed an object about which the agent is concerned; it is virtually but not formally transitive because it makes, not presupposes, an object.
-
There can be no greatness in things. Things cannot be great. The only greatness is unselfish love.
