Patrick Henry Quotes
If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I would not follow, I would be at the bottom to catch them when they fall.
Quotes to Explore
-
In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
-
I've never been able to understand what they mean by 'Pinteresque,'. I'm sure it's indefinable.
-
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
-
Let us consider the glorious Saint Paul: it seems that no other name fell from his lips than that of Jesus, because the name of Jesus was fixed and embedded in his heart.
-
You have to find out how to become the character.
-
Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
-
Unfortunately, the Senate Democrats have become an extreme party. They have become a party that has abdicated their responsibilities. Under Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats, we have a do-nothing Senate.
-
I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
-
A lot of actors know they want to be actors a little bit earlier on. I didn't even really start studying until I was about 22.
-
I saw hell. The hospital had divided and conquered pretty successfully.
-
Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
-
When you are a photographer, you work all the time, because your eye is the first camera.
-
If you've got a plot the size of a car or a tiny yard in Italy, you're going to be growing tomatoes and basil and celery and carrots, and everybody is still connected to the land.
-
I like the idea of sending my Aquazurra girls out with a lucky charm under their feet.
-
'Giving 2.0' was born of my desire to redefine and democratize philanthropy.
-
I'm on the board of directors for Peace Now, which works tirelessly between the Palestinians and the Israelis to create peace in the Middle East and we've never been closer.
-
Transferring our sovereignty and decisionmaking power to the WTO, to the United Nations, or any other international body is not in the long-term interests of our people.
-
Alanis Morissette - I love how she's not afraid to say what she wants to say. Love it or hate it, she's going to say it. And her vocals are crazy; they're amazing, and I also love how her music is really organic.
-
A single overstatement, wherever or however it occurs, diminishes the whole, and a carefree superlative has the power to destroy, for the reader, the object of the writer's enthusiasm.
-
I guess I cringe, because sometimes I don't even watch my live performances back. When I edit, it's this feeling of seeing my mistakes. It's always a mixture of loving characters, but being the artist that created it and not trying to go too deep in criticizing myself.
-
If you are walking backward, away from something you think is a mistake, you may be right in supposing it is a mistake, but for you to be walking backward is never right. You know what happens to people who walk backward.... We are meant to walk forward, not backward, and reaction is always a matter of walking backward.
-
I believe television is going to be the test of the modern world, and that in this new opportunity to see beyond the range of our vision we shall discover either a new and unbearable disturbance of the general peace or a saving radiance in the sky. We shall stand or fall by television - of that I am quite sure.
-
There is no greater ladder into the middle class than education.
-
If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I would not follow, I would be at the bottom to catch them when they fall.
