Ambrose Bierce Quotes
Religion, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
Quotes to Explore
-
You've got to be taught to hate and fear.
-
I get nervous before openings or premieres or when someone's reading a new script, and I get nervous when my daughter isn't in my immediate field of vision.
-
There's a set of rules out there somewhere that says it all ends by 40. I hope to be able to defy that because I truly love my work.
-
I love New York. It's hard to explain, but it's the energy of the city. It's not like L.A. where everything is spread out.
-
Our essential differences from the norm are both huge and deeply offensive to those among us who wish to be quietly integrated into society without particular reference to our nature.
-
When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
-
I hope people don't think I'm crazy, because I'm not.
-
I hope kids feel gratitude for what they do have.
-
I am the way I am. If you like me because I'm glamorous, so be it. If you like me, because I speak well or I have a brain and opinion, so be it.
-
The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
-
Whenever I go to L.A., the make-up artist or hairdresser will end up having a conversation about how fat they think they are, and I really just can't take it seriously at all.
-
Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.
-
Today, fear of bloodshed is forcing us into recognizing new taboos: those of Muslims.
-
My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life.
-
I think women are by nature competitive - secretly, privately within their own selves, on lots of different levels, on the way they look, perform.
-
Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.
-
Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.
-
I don't fear anything now.
-
It's one of the worst-kept secrets of family life that all parents have a preferred son or daughter, and the rules for acknowledging it are the same everywhere: The favored kids recognize their status and keep quiet about it - the better to preserve the good thing they've got going and to keep their siblings off their back.
-
I'm on a lot of nonprofit boards, but if I didn't enjoy it I wouldn't do it. I haven't yet done anything that's transformational in philanthropy. But I hope at some point to target two or three causes or organizations and really make transformational gifts.
-
No real fairytale scared me, but Freddy Krueger did. 'Nightmare on Elm Street' scared the living hell out of me, but no fairytale. Maybe 'Hansel and Gretel' a little bit when they were walking through the forest and they met the witch. But I liked being scared, I really enjoy being scared.
-
I just try to keep rebounding the ball as much as I can. I just go out there and do what needs to be done and don't worry about my stats.
-
My college roommate gave me her copy of 'Lord of the Rings,' and I read that probably five or six times - not because I think it's the greatest thing ever written, though some people certainly think it is - but the world he creates is so vivid. So real that he designed its own languages, history and mythology.
-
Religion, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
