Ambrose Bierce Quotes

Conservative, n. A statesman enamored of existing evils, as opposed to a Liberal, who wants to replace them with others.

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• I mean, horror films in general put humans in these awful supernatural or horrible situations, but 'Cabin In The Woods' cranks it up a few notches and becomes outrageous and totally bizarre.

  

  Fran Kranz
  • Up
  • Mean
  • Supernatural

• A bowler is his own captain. I know what needs to be done, what the ball is doing. If you don't know where you are going to bowl and where you think the batsman will hit, then how can you tell the captain what you want? You are the judge.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Done
  • Think
  • Want

• I am, in general, favourable to activism and social movements and hostile to graft and corruption.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Social
  • Corruption
  • Activism

• The most sinister aspect of Jack is his detachment, his ability to distance himself from his feelings.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Feelings
  • Ability
  • Distance

• Everything I make starts very personally.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Everything
  • Make
  • Very

• Only votes talk, everything else walks.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Everything
  • Talk
  • Only

• Women aren't as mere as they used to be.

  

  Walt Kelly
  • Women
  • Used
  • Mere

• ArcGIS Online is the complete hosted GIS in the cloud, supporting mapping and apps. Additions to this component have included smart mapping, formal metadata, better administration, and high-performance geocoding.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • High
  • Better
  • Smart

• I've heard stories of people meeting the loves of their lives online, and that's great. But it freaks me out.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • People
  • Great
  • Meeting

• A script like 'The Sixth Sense' is fun to read: It's so well-written, and you get a vivid sense of what's going to be onscreen.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Fun
  • You
  • Like

• I know it's good when I see a smaller film get recognized because it means more publicity for them. When you start producing and directing the movies become a little more like your children.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Good
  • Children
  • Start

• I have a great pack of female friends, but I also have a lot of guy friends. I believe that platonic relationship is entirely possible.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Friends

• You and I, 22 million African-Americans - that's what we are - Africans who are in America. You're nothing but Africans. Nothing but Africans. In fact, you'd get farther calling yourself African instead of Negro. Africans don't catch hell. You're the only one catching hell. They don't have to pass civil-rights bills for Africans.

  

  Malcolm X
  • America

• When the gift I give to the other is integral to my own nature, when it comes from a place of organic reality within me, it will renew itself-and me-even as I give it away. Only when I give something that does not grow within me do I deplete myself and harm the other as well, for only harm can come from a gift that is forced, inorganic, unreal.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • Nature
  • Reality

• I had never heard of Walter Young before, and I do not expect to hear from him again.

  

  Conrad Black

• 'I am the one who stood beside you and smiled,Thinking your face so strangely young . . . 'I am the one who loved you but did not dare.'

  

  Conrad Aiken
  • Thinking

• In the matter of physics, the first lessons should contain nothing but what is experimental and interesting to see. A pretty experiment is in itself often more valuable than twenty formulae extracted from our minds.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Mind
  • Physics
  • Valuable

• I'm big into social studies, the humanities. I really love history and world issues and philosophy and law.

  

  Connor Jessup
  • World
  • History
  • Law

• My mother was really courageous.

  

  Ara Parseghian
  • Mother

• 'The Invitation' is a meditation on grief and loss carried within a suspense drama. At its core, it's about a dinner party gone horribly wrong and about the consequences of denying our pain.

  

  Karyn Kusama
  • Party
  • Pain
  • Drama

• We have found that morals are not, like bacon, to be cured by hanging; nor, like wine, to be improved by sea voyages; nor, like honey, to be preserved in cells.

  

  William Cooke Taylor
  • Moral
  • Journey
  • Wine

• Conservative, n. A statesman enamored of existing evils, as opposed to a Liberal, who wants to replace them with others.

  

  Ambrose Bierce