Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
There's a critic that I love, Manohla Dargis of the 'L.A. Weekly.' I like the underground point of view; it's my old radical sympathies. Maybe I like her because she likes my movies.
-
I believe in the institution of marriage and it's like a tag to cement the relationship for your friends, family and public.
-
Reverence is fatal to literature.
-
You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
-
With Twitter, you can build your own virtual trading floor and research department, populated by the smartest people on earth. Almost any subject or sector has you can think of, you can find a few people with an expertise in that area.
-
I write music every day.
-
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
-
Fostering the leadership necessary for transformational outcomes in education is hard work, and in countries around the world, there is a constant search for easier solutions.
-
That's the place we're in right now: we think we have the capability to get every piece of information, and we don't. We don't know what's going on behind the closed curtain. If we want to say we live in a free democratic society, we should be able to find out whatever we want to.
-
The potential for regional conflict in the absence of an internationally active America is real.
-
I really wanted to make 'Everest' visceral, real. One thing that amazed me when I was scouting in base camp is the volume of Everest: It's humbling. I wanted to find a way to bring that to the screen. One way was 3D.
-
The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
-
If you're smart and you care about life, you'll take driving seriously.
-
People get tired of you. So they decided to throw me out. And so help me God, as the numbers were coming in, I said to myself, 'I'm free at last.'
-
If you spend 72 hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter. Either that or you're President Obama.
-
The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a unique and biologically special place that should be preserved.
-
I love the produce section at the grocery store.
-
Sports can unify the Iraqi people - no Sunnis, no Shiites, just sport for the country.
-
Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
-
We say that we often see animals in our dreams, but we forget that almost always we are ourselves animals therein, deprived of that reasoning power which projects upon things the light of certainty; on the contrary we bring to bear on the spectacle of life only a dubious vision, extinguished anew every moment by oblivion, the former reality fading before that which follows it as one projection of a magic lantern fades before the next as we change the slide.
-
One never knows whether people have principles on principle or whether for their own personal satisfaction.
-
There is always change, bad customs pass and give way to better ones.
