Taliesin Quotes

A pleasant virtue, extreme penance to an extreme course; Also pleasant, when God is delivering me. Pleasant, the carousal that hinders not mental exertion; Also pleasant, to drink together about horns.

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• The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Dad

• There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Very
  • Days
  • Humanitarian

• If someone has failed, that is not a deficiency for me. I think that he has more motivation. I've seen many examples where someone was successful first and failed later and failed first and then succeeded. If they failed in an honest way, I don't see it as a deficiency.

  

  Yossi Vardi
  • Way
  • Successful
  • Honest

• My dad also plays a little banjo and guitar, my mom plays the mandolin.

  

  Page McConnell
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • Guitar

• Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.

  

  Balthasar Klossowski de Rola
  • Work
  • Great
  • Experience

• The thing is, people can't complain about profit-oriented moves if they're only interested in profit themselves. You can't have it both ways. If they're willing to polish up a gift and sell it to make money, they can't really complain about the fact that somebody above them has sold them down the river. That's the way it goes.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• Seriously, who doesn't want to slap a 27-year-old movie star?

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Movie
  • Want
  • Star

• I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Movie
  • Free
  • Me

• To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don't need any spoiling or looking after.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Me
  • Easy
  • Cat

• The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.

  

  Ovid
  • Oil
  • Clean
  • Bright

• When I was little, I didn't smile much. Don't get me wrong. I was a happy kid, but I couldn't stand the space, dead center, in between my teeth. Yeah, I could whistle through it, but so what? That didn't win me many points on the playground in Medfield, Massachusetts.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Happy
  • Space
  • Win

• PR and marketing doesn't sell books. It gets attention for them. It sends readers to bookstores and websites to read a few pages.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Attention
  • Marketing
  • Sell

• The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Space
  • Friend
  • Moon

• I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Trying
  • Loved
  • Show

• You can think of Hollywood as high school. TV actors are freshmen, comedy actors are maybe juniors, and dramatic actors - they're the cool seniors.

  

  Owen Wilson
  • School
  • High
  • Comedy

• All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Life
  • Important
  • Chance

• If you simply announce that things are irrational, then that alone doesn't get you very far. You have to replace rational agents with some concrete notion of what it means to be irrational.

  

  Lars Peter Hansen
  • You
  • Alone
  • Concrete

• Have you ever walked along a shoreline, only to have your footprints washed away? That's what Alzheimer's is like. The waves erase the marks we leave behind, all the sand castles. Some days are better than others.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Better
  • Waves
  • Sand

• You can't explain much in 60 seconds, but when you show Michael Jordan, you don't have to. It's that simple.

  

  Phil Knight
  • Simple

• As the state's chief elections officer, it is my job to make sure that only eligible voters vote, but also that every eligible voter has the opportunity to vote.

  

  Jason Kander
  • Job
  • Opportunity

• A pleasant virtue, extreme penance to an extreme course; Also pleasant, when God is delivering me. Pleasant, the carousal that hinders not mental exertion; Also pleasant, to drink together about horns.

  

  Taliesin
  • God
  • Together