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

• You can't sit here and try to predict what kind of character I'm going to be drawn to next. At the time when I read 'The Girl on the Train,' it wasn't like I was, 'Ooh, I want to play a hot mess next.'

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Time
  • Character
  • Girl

• 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 have always had extraordinarily good relations with very conservative colleagues. And that's not because I agree with any of them or fudge on my positions, but people feel I listen to them and give them the benefit of the doubt. I assume the best of people. And that, I think, is an attitude that is maybe rare in politics.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Good
  • Thinking

• Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it's done right.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Good
  • Work
  • Done

• 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

• For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread. The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet.... Shall we think of the day as a chance to come nearer to our Host, and to find out something of Him who has fed us so long?

  

  Rebecca Harding Davis
  • Thinking
  • Chance
  • inspirational

• The body expresses our very being. The striving for beauty is inborn among the Aryan.

  

  Baldur von Schirach
  • Body
  • Strive

• My faith in truth and nonviolence is ever growing, and as I am ever trying to follow them in my life, I too am growing every moment.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Truth
  • Faith
  • My Life

• 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