Wilhelm Rontgen Quotes
For me photography was the means to the end, but they made it the most important thing. (On the discovery of X-ray photography.)
Quotes to Explore
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A person that says, 'Losing is not difficult,' I don't even want to be around that person. And obviously, that person has never won anything relevant in their life.
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After 'Sesame Street,' it's a hyper-familiar world to me and I have this childlike ability to ignore the fact that I'm talking to scraps of cloth. Every country I go to, I see posters promoting the film in different languages. 'Los Muppets' - I love that!
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I like to dress for my body type and for my coloring.
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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
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I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France.
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I would describe my sound as classic Motown.
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I've done some music for films and I really enjoy doing it.
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The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media.
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I had really bad obsessive-compulsive disorder. At its worst, I was compelled to leave my house at three o'clock in the morning and go out in the alley because I just knew that the paper-towel roll I threw in the recycling bin was uncomfortable, like it was lying the wrong way, and I would be down in the garbage.
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I don't want to be on the Internet.
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I live in, literally, the same home when I was swiping my first bank card and wondering if I'd have to put back the Charmin. We still don't have a dishwasher. My mom has done all these gardens so now my house looks like the garden shack in the middle of Versailles.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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I de-stress with my family, just at home pruning roses, cutting, working in the garden.
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I wish my teammates, coaches and the entire Lions organization all the best.
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I grew up in New York.
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We play a hip-hop song and suddenly 25 people on the left jump up and put their hands in the air; then you play Lost Cause and they're like, I don't know about this one.
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It became obvious in 1957 that I was endangering my health by carrying so much weight.
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People read more mysteries than they do political pamphlets.
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Edward Heath and Richard Nixon took personal awkwardness with each other to new and excruciating levels.
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I write about my life and my own experience, but I also write about things that I have no knowledge of whatsoever.
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After filming, I can't wait to shake off all that '50s primness. I'll go out to a gig and dance ridiculously. I love to lose myself in music. Just letting go - it's dead important.
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I've had experiences where people say, 'I hated jazz before I heard you guys!' I'm like, 'You didn't hate jazz before you heard us, you hated the idea of jazz.'
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Sarajevo was this beautiful city, very cosmopolitan, multiethnic, full of wonderful people, artists and writers and poets and Serbs and Muslims and Croats, and living side by side. And then this medieval siege, and it was a medieval siege, came, and the Bosnian Serbs were on the hills lobbing in rockets and grenades and mortars.
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For me photography was the means to the end, but they made it the most important thing. (On the discovery of X-ray photography.)
