Geoffrey Nunberg Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
'The Omen,' 'The Exorcist,' those movies for me are the quintessential horror movies that still scare me as an adult.
-
The problem of the minimum dwelling is that of establishing the elementary minimum of space, air, light, and heat required by man in order that he be able to fully develop his life functions without experiencing limitations due to his dwelling, i.e. a minimum modus vivendi in place of a modus non moriendi.
-
Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. It's interesting to everyone. Especially little movies that are having trouble getting made, there's always sex.
-
Money is not everything. We don't need billions and trillions of dollars.
-
I don't know what these Republican congressmen drink that make them experts on women's reproductive health.
-
There's something really fun about being scared, and I guess that was at least part of why I wanted to film certain scenes from my new book, 'Skeleton Creek.'
-
In the John Paul II days, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger had the advantage of staying in his cupboard - the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith - exchanging views only with the Pope, and speaking publicly only through carefully written missives on doctrinal issues.
-
The civil rights and antiwar movements taught Americans to question authority.
-
The Farmer will never be happy again;He carries his heart in his boots;For either the rain is destroying his grainOr the drought is destroying his roots.
-
Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).
-
Memorable providence, relating to witchcraft's and possessions. (1689) 1
-
There is no Monday which will not give its place to Tuesday.
-
I'm not scared of Jon Jones or Chris Weidman or whoever. I'm here to fight. That's it. It's simple.
-
I have fallen deeply in love with songs - musical theatre songs included - over the years, and this experience has taught me to hear and honor the writer's voice in my soul.
-
I went to Cal Arts and AFI, and I worked on 'Bonfire Of The Vanities.' I got this grant from the Academy to be Brian De Palma's apprentice director. And it was such a harrowing, disillusioning, awful experience.
-
American Apparel does great colourful basics that you can customise.
-
Whenever I start something, I will always do everything I can to be the best at it.
-
As we all know, there is no harder or more rewarding job than being a mom.
-
I think my sense of color I have got from my upbringing in Peru.
-
I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
-
I really sort of kept to myself. I kind of just watched the world. And I think to keep people from messing with me, yeah, you know, I went out to run track. I went out for the football team. Not because I love track or love football.
-
Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
-
Any person who says their family is perfectly functional is lying.
-
Few people become assholes reluctantly.
