David Edelstein Quotes

The English have a wellspring of comedy that will never be exhausted: the combination of bestial urges and excellent manners.

David Edelstein

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• He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Honor
  • Dangerous
  • Himself

• Look back, and smile on perils past.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Past
  • Look
  • Smile

• From compassion springs humility. The ego is verily a gateway to hell. The person who is egoistic is far from being religious.

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • Religious
  • Compassion
  • Ego

• I love my early movies, but naturalism is an artist's early style. Now I want to deal with feelings, dreams, an acceptance of irrationality.

  

  Irvin Kershner
  • Love
  • Feelings
  • Dreams

• This is magic we're talking about. It's supposed to go places science can't, defy logic, wink at technology, fill us all with the sensawunda that comes of gazing upon a fictional world and seeing something truly different from our own.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • World
  • Different
  • Science

• Wherever on this planet ideals of personal freedom and dignity apply, there you will find the cultural inheritance of England.

  

  Karel Capek
  • Freedom
  • Find
  • Dignity

• Don't be surprised at Fortune's turns and twists: That wheel has spun a thousand yarns before.

  

  Hafez
  • Fortune
  • Wheel
  • Twists

• Rutherford was a historian, after all, and secretly enjoyed it when the truth did injury to modern sensibilities.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Truth

• My website's kind of fun for me. I get to do drawings on that. It's kind of fun.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Fun

• As a writer, I have to admit, there is something darkly compelling about Alzheimer's because it attacks the two things most central to a writer's craft - language and memory, which together make up an individual's identity. Alzheimer's makes a new character out of a familiar person.

  

  Charlie Pierce
  • Up
  • Character
  • Together

• Scripts are very different to books. They are blueprints for building, not the building.

  

  David Hewson
  • Different

• Sometimes I need to go for a walk for inspiration.

  

  Maria Cornejo
  • Inspiration
  • Walk

• Come on, guys, I am a computer nerd. I love Hollywood and movies. My whole life is like a movie. I wouldn't be who I am if it wasn't for the mind-altering glimpse at the future in 'Star Wars.'

  

  Kim Dotcom
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Movie

• If I give dollars to some charity, nobody cares. I mean, it helps the charity, but nobody cares. But if the Dodgers do the same thing, they bring more focus to issues, and that makes it better.

  

  Mark Walter
  • Focus
  • Charity

• My perfect morning is spent drinking coffee, eating porridge and reading the paper at a local cafe.

  

  Anton du Beke
  • Perfect
  • Reading
  • Morning

• For the most part, I was surprised by the representation of female characters onscreen. I do hope that when we include more female storytellers, we will have more of the women that I recognize in my day to day life.

  

  Jessica Chastain
  • Life
  • Women
  • Hope

• I have personally invested in a company created by Rohit Khattar - Cinestaan Film Company. But that's what I do personally.

  

  Anand Mahindra

• Any union that can't accept workers choosing their own representatives through universal franchise is finished.

  

  Jacques Delors

• USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Cancer
  • Nations
  • Knife

• Rockets have remained fundamentally unchanged, except for a few exceptions for the last almost 50 years. So, for there to be a fundamental shift in rocketry and getting into space, there almost has to be a breakthrough in propulsion. Either in how to bring the price down, or how to more efficiently get people up into space and the key barrier is the expense of a rocket.

  

  Leroy Chiao
  • People
  • Up
  • Space

• I'm not great at bedtime stories. Bedtime stories are supposed to put the kid to sleep. My kid gets riled up and then my wife has to come in and go, 'All right! Get out of the room.'

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Up
  • Great
  • Wife

• The English have a wellspring of comedy that will never be exhausted: the combination of bestial urges and excellent manners.

  

  David Edelstein
  • Comedy
  • Combination
  • Manners