David Thorne Quotes

Without a concise set of rules to follow we would probably all have to resort to common sense

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• I wake up every morning knowing how ridiculously lucky I am to be able to do what I love for a living, and that sense of wonder never, ever wears off.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Sense
  • Living
  • Lucky

• I think that's what art is about: to provoke you. It helps me make sense of a senseless universe because I become the god of the story. I create it, and I see it in all its lineaments in my own way and can control it – in a world in which everything else is out of control.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • World
  • God
  • Art

• I think luck is a great part of it because I think that the particular makeup of the person that you are attracted to, and that you fall in love with, is very important. Even down to that old bromide of a sense of humor and all of that.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Important
  • Person
  • Luck

• So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.

  

  Haniel Long
  • Family
  • Best
  • Sense

• I love movies where you can sense that the director risked biting off more than they can chew.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Movies
  • Sense
  • Director

• Many who resort to crime ultimately can't read or write.

  

  Wally Amos
  • Write
  • Crime
  • Resort

• People miss those who they love. It brings tears to my eyes to see the longing for me. But it's my decision to do fewer films and more protagonist-based roles. For me to take up something, it has to make a lot of sense to me.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • People
  • Love
  • Decision

• I have never let down Italy, and I never will. I love my country, and I owe a lot to my country, and in that sense, whatever I can and will be able to do for my country, I will do.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Country
  • Sense
  • Will

• Men love it. They have a sense of humor, whereas a lot of women are threatened or just don't get it.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Men
  • Women
  • Humor

• The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Mind
  • Sense
  • Nonsense

• May the conscience and the common sense of the peoples be awakened, so that we may reach a new stage in the life of nations, where people will look back on war as an incomprehensible aberration of their forefathers!

  

  Albert Einstein
  • People
  • Life
  • Sense

• Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Love
  • Ambition
  • Sense

• I got fame and fortune, and I lost my sense of reasoning.

  

  Little Richard
  • Lost
  • Sense
  • Fame

• Great things are wrought through simple and small things. Like the small flecks of gold that accumulate over time into a large treasure, our small and simple acts of kindness and service will accumulate into a life filled with love for Heavenly Father, devotion to the work of the Lord Jesus Christ, and a sense of peace and joy each time we reach out to one another.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• The true meaning of courage is to be afraid, and then, with your knees knocking and your heart racing, to step out anyway—even when that step makes sense to nobody but you. I know that’s not easy. But making a bold move is the only way to truly advance toward the grandest vision the universe has for you.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Heart
  • True
  • Universe

• You become more attractive when you love yourself. You ATTRACT the right things when you have a sense of who you are.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Things
  • Right
  • Sense

• I never came across anyone in whom the moral sense was dominant who was not heartless, cruel, vindictive, log-stupid, and entirely lacking in the smallest sense of humanity. Moral people, as they are termed, are simple beasts.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Stupid
  • Sense

• Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because it's the only thing that makes any sense.

  

  Ben Nicholson
  • Serious
  • Politics
  • Sense

• In bad times and in good I've never lost my sense of zest for life.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Life
  • Good
  • Bad

• People who publish poetry today do it from a sense that poetry needs to be published, not because they think they are going to make money.

  

  Campbell McGrath
  • Poetry
  • Needs
  • Sense

• ... what we can be positive about is what we have just said, namely that they must be given the right education, whatever that may be, as the surest way to make them behave humanely to each other and the subjects in their charge.

  

  Plato
  • Education
  • Charge
  • Behave

• The salient question is whether the increasing awareness of heart disease beginning in the 1920s coincided with the budding of an epidemic or simply better technology for diagnosis.

  

  Gary Taubes
  • Technology
  • Disease
  • Diagnosis

• I've made out more this season on a family-friendly show than ever in my actual life.

  

  Lauren Graham
  • Life
  • Family
  • Show

• Without a concise set of rules to follow we would probably all have to resort to common sense

  

  David Thorne
  • Sense
  • Probably
  • Resort