Gertrude Bell Quotes

I have fallen a hopeless victim to the Turk; he is the most charming of mortals.

Gertrude Bell

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• Most of the producers don't know what they do. The misconception of the producers' function is really not a misconception. Most producers don't do a very good job.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Good
  • Job
  • Know

• I want to be acting until the day I die!

  

  Mackenzie Foy
  • Die
  • Day
  • Acting

• I can remember in the late 1980s and early 1990s how many men with AIDS I saw everywhere in Key West. There were hospices and medical supply stores geared to people with AIDS. It seemed that every sick man who could afford it had headed for the warmth and the tranquillity and the gay-friendliness of the island.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Men
  • Remember

• A lot of things in 'Parents' I find very truthful.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Parents
  • Find
  • Very

• The success of the movie industry comes from the story. And the story comes from somebody putting something down on paper.

  

  Dan Glickman
  • Movie
  • Success
  • Story

• May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur; quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good.

  

  Ralph Thomas Walker
  • Life
  • Good
  • May

• A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Friends
  • Man
  • Wise

• I certainly was surprised to be named Poet Laureate of this far-out city on the left side of the world, and I gratefully accept, for as I told the Mayor, "How could I refuse?" I'd rather be Poet Laureate of San Francisco than anywhere because this city has always been a poetic center, a frontier for free poetic life, with perhaps more poets and more poetry readers than any city in the world.

  

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • Life
  • World
  • Free

• I am a God, so hurry up with my damn massage; in a French-ass restaurant, hurry up with my damn croissants.

  

  Kanye West
  • Up
  • God
  • inspirational

• Expect the unexpected, that was the S.T.A.R.S. motto—although.

  

  S. D. Perry
  • Stars
  • Expect

• Genius simply cannot be reduced to a set of rules for anyone to follow.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Genius
  • Rules
  • Follow

• All the daily routine of life, our dressing and undressing, the coming and going from our work or carrying through of its various operations, is utterly without mental reference to pleasure and pain, except under rarely realized conditions.

  

  William James
  • Pain
  • Happiness
  • Pleasure

• Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!

  

  William James
  • Believe
  • Science
  • Kind

• A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Home
  • Past
  • Surface

• It was a lot of fun doing 'Felicity.' She had just won the Golden Globe, and she was huge at the time, but she was like the nicest girl ever. As a guest star on a show, you get on the set and you feel out of place, but she was so nice to me and really cool.

  

  Dirt Nasty
  • Cool
  • Show
  • Felicity

• I'm like a mechanic. If you break down and phone the AA, they'll come to you whether it's raining or snowing. That's what an actor should do.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Down
  • Phone
  • Mechanic

• I have, all my life long, been lying till noon; yet I tell all young men, and tell them with great sincerity, that nobody who does not rise early will ever do any good.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• I have fallen a hopeless victim to the Turk; he is the most charming of mortals.

  

  Gertrude Bell
  • Charming
  • Hopeless
  • Mortals