Bruce Bawer Quotes

Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity.

Bruce Bawer

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• There's this sort of cloud that hangs where people are like: 'How long can you keep the heat of 'Homeland' going?' People have short memories is the truth, and Hollywood loves the new and shiny.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • People
  • Long
  • Truth

• If two people were exactly alike, one of them would be unnecessary.

  

  Larry Dixon
  • People
  • Two
  • Two People

• No, but there are people I grew up with from the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains that would give any person on 'Justified' a run for their money in the scary department.

  

  Walton Goggins
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• Michael is a funny character, for whom I have a great deal of affection. He sat across his desk and seemed to be a bit of a blunt fellow. We began talking about the characters and he opened up about his vision.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Up
  • Great
  • Character

• I don't mind being called 'Supernova.' If one nickname is going to stick, that's not a bad one!

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • Mind
  • Bad
  • Going

• Latins are predisposed to thinking about the past. Catholicism has a lot to do with it because Catholicism is a contemplation of the past, of symbols that are supposed to be eternally present.

  

  Oscar Hijuelos
  • Thinking
  • Past
  • Present

• Take the complications, rules, shoulds, musts, have tos, and so on out of your life. By uncomplicating your life and removing the trivial pursuits that occupy so much of it, you open a channel for the genius within you to emerge.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Genius
  • Rules

• travesty and a strategic blunder of epic proportions on the part of the Defense Department.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Strategic
  • Travesty
  • Defense Department

• It's when most of the guests have gone that the party really gets interesting - peering under the table and into the bath to see who's stayed and what shape they're in. It is then that those who are still conscious divulge things you had not known before: sometimes about themselves, sometimes about other people and sometimes about you. It does not necessarily make pleasant hearing but it is always fascinating. In the relaxed atmosphere, in the wake of the hubbub, they unwind and grow confidential - nay, indiscreet. If they are not already, they end up as your closest friends.

  

  Alice Thomas Ellis
  • People
  • Up
  • Friends

• I think this is the kind of thing where we're rapidly moving toward an age where most of the populace will be almost unable to imagine life without an Internet component interlocked with it.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Life
  • Age
  • Moving

• How terrible it is to have wisdom when it does not benefit those who have it.

  

  Sophocles
  • Wisdom
  • Terrible
  • Benefit

• Art is man added to Nature.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Art Is

• Positive images of the future are a powerful and magnetic force... They draw us on and energize us, give us courage and will to take on important initiatives. Negative images of the future also have a magnetism. They pull the spirit downward in the path of despair.

  

  William James
  • Important
  • Giving
  • Powerful

• Inspiration is nothing without work.

  

  William Morris Hunt
  • Work
  • Inspiration

• I mean, there are some amazing storytelling being done on the small screen right now. That's what so cool about being in television right now. Studios, networks are starting to throw more resources, better writers, more production values... and to be part of that is awesome.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Done
  • Small
  • Amazing

• I'm the kind of person, if, if I have a day that is nerve-wracking, or my week has been bad or something's going down, I won't eat. Some people eat, I don't eat. And it shows in my physical frame.

  

  Whitney Houston
  • People
  • Bad
  • Kind

• Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity.

  

  Bruce Bawer
  • Strive
  • Clarity
  • Obscurity