Ambrose Bierce Quotes
Friendless, adj. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense
Quotes to Explore
-
I love to come in and play with a wig or glasses or clothes. I love using props. I'm from the Peter Sellers school of trying to prepare for the character.
-
I am not a perfect 10 anymore. I can only try my best.
-
In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.
-
I was being groomed to be a tennis player for sure. My grandparents and parents realised I had a natural athletic ability and if I was forced to do it, I could probably do well. But all I wanted was to play pretend.
-
You have to make the mistakes and have those failures in order to learn from them and grow and improve... But for me, the best way to combat any of that beating yourself up or overanalysing, the most important part is always to be prepared to the best of your ability.
-
My soul is now her day, my day her night, So I lie down, and so I rise.
-
Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.
-
There ought to be a thoughtful welfare-reform debate that doesn't turn into something that could be called scapegoating.
-
All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
-
In a city, it's very hard to do a restaurant, an avant-garde-cuisine restaurant, where each year you need to change the whole menu.
-
There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?
-
The United Nations Children's Fund reports that more than 18 million children worldwide have lost both parents to the ravages of AIDS, starvation, war or natural disasters.
-
One is that you have to take time, lots of time, to let an idea grow from within. The second is that when you sign on to something, there will be issues of trust, deep trust, the way the members of a string quartet have to trust one another.
-
Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
-
The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.
-
Food is not a means toward resolution. It can't cure heartbreak or solve untenable dilemmas.
-
I've always thought about my legacy - more so, though, my impact off the field and how I'm helping my community and solidifying and strengthening the lives of others around me. And also, I just want to be a dominant football player, too. So it encompasses everything.
-
Social media buzz can lead to huge successes when people spread the word about something they love and want to share. But authors creating their own buzz? Making their own noise? It's hard to make a lot of noise on our own about our own work. Except, sadly, negative noise.
-
In Western Australia they don't even know how to make that vital piece of sailing-boat equipment, the gin and tonic.
-
Courtesy is a waste of time; it weakens you and undermines you.
-
Only the Catholic Church protested against the Hitlerian onslaught on liberty. Up till then I had not been interested in the Church, but today I feel a great admiration for the Church, which alone has had the courage to struggle for spiritual truth and moral liberty.
-
'Work, the what's-its-name of the thingummy and the thing-um-a-bob of the what d'you-call-it.'
-
Friends who are directors like Jim Mangold or the Wachowskis or Zack Snyder - who, whether they know or not - have really left a mark on who I am as a director.
-
Friendless, adj. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense
