Eyedea (Micheal David Larsen) Quotes

I can only build if I tear the walls down, even if it breaks me I won't let it make me frown, I'm falling but no matter how hard I hit the ground, I'll still smile.

Eyedea

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• Build
• Falling

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• Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Desire
  • Principle
  • Obsession

• I don't know if it has set in or not. Honestly, it's crazy. It's such an amazing honor. I remember thinking back to being in my room waiting for the call to see if I got the part. It's like winning the lottery. I'm proud to be a member of such an amazing cast - that's the best award of all.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Amazing

• I was sent the script for 'Silver Linings' when I was doing a play in D.C. at The Kennedy Center with Cate Blanchett and I was sent the script and asked if I was interested, and I said 'Oh, boy am I!'

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Boy
  • Doing
  • Silver

• I am not thinking about life after football, but I know it will be another life, another world.

  

  Francesco Totti
  • Life
  • World
  • Thinking

• The best thing I can think of would be to create a union between something as beautiful and powerful and wonderful as Hollywood films and a criticism of the status quo. That's my dream, to make such a German film.

  

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • Beautiful
  • Dream
  • Best

• It doesn't matter how precisely the onion is cut as long as the person chewing it is happy.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Long
  • Happy
  • Matter

• I don't do the super-clean-living L.A. thing.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Thing

• A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she'll appear in film and it won't work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don't know.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Work
  • She
  • Beautiful

• Fashion is architecture. It is a matter of proportions.

  

  Coco Chanel
  • Fashion
  • Architecture

• I fear -as far as I can tell- that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training. I’ve heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.

  

  Alan Kay
  • Science
  • Fear
  • Training

• They need to read the Scriptures; where it says in Matthew, chapter 4, verse 17, it says: 'Shut the fuck up.' That's the King James version, by the way.

  

  Margaret Cho
  • Up
  • King

• There is a continent - Africa - being consumed by flames. I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and what we did - or did not to - to put the fire out in Africa. History, like God, is watching what we do.

  

  Bono U2
  • God
  • Believe
  • War

• One of us sings in the street, and we listen to him;The words ring over us like vague bells of sorrow.He sings of a house he lived in long ago.It is strange; this house of dust was the house I lived in;The house you lived in, the house that all of us know.

  

  Conrad Aiken
  • Long
  • House
  • Words

• Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees, And looks to God alone; Laughs at impossibilities, And cries it shall be done.

  

  Charles Wesley
  • God
  • Done
  • Faith

• It feels good to be strong.

  

  Katharine McPhee
  • Good
  • Strong

• I don't want to be forty-five and still a freshman.

  

  Max Minghella

• Hydration is really important, particularly as a beach volleyball player.

  

  Brooke Sweat
  • Important
  • Player
  • Beach

• Since I'm essentially optimistic, I can't imagine a world in which man is totally decimated or degraded.

  

  Nelson Algren
  • World
  • Optimistic

• My father and his eight siblings grew up in the kind of poverty that Americans don't like to talk about unless a natural disaster like Hurricane Katrina strikes, and then the conversation only lasts as long as the news cycle. His family squatted in shacks. The children scavenged for food.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Up
  • Long
  • Children

• We are, always, reminded of the old saw: What would happen if the Soviet Union took over the Sahara Desert? Answer: Nothing for 50 years. After that there would be a shortage of sand.

  

  William Francis Buckley
  • Answers
  • Desert
  • Sand

• Moon and Sea You are the moon, dear love, and I the sea: The tide of hope swells high within my breast, And hides the rough dark rocks of life's unrest When your fond eyes smile near in perigee. But when that loving face is turned from me, Low falls the tide, and the grim rocks appear, And earth's dim coast-line seems a thing to fear. You are the moon, dear one, and I the sea.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Life
  • High
  • Hope

• …there's no question of heroism in all this. It's a matter of common decency. That's an idea which may make some people smile, but the only means of fighting a plague is - common decency.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Fighting
  • Smile
  • Heroism

• When you're stretching yourself, as a role like 'Blue Jasmine' did for me, you risk falling flat on your face.

  

  Cate Blanchett
  • Risk
  • Yourself
  • Face

• I can only build if I tear the walls down, even if it breaks me I won't let it make me frown, I'm falling but no matter how hard I hit the ground, I'll still smile.

  

  Eyedea
  • Smile
  • Build
  • Falling