Ambrose Bierce Quotes

Philosophy, n. A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.

Ambrose Bierce

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• The odds are not in your favor the older you get, especially if you're a woman in this business.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Business
  • You
  • Woman

• Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Life
  • Question
  • End

• As long as I know my head's in the right place, my feet are on the ground, I think I'll be fine.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • Long
  • Think
  • Feet

• No woman has to be a victim of physical abuse. Women have to feel like they are not alone.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Women
  • Alone
  • Woman

• I take great pride in recalling that I could open in a play on Broadway or in London's West End and fill a theatre on the strength of my name - Steed's name.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Great
  • End
  • Pride

• With my dad coming from a theatre tradition, there was a lot of preparation before auditions. Not just in terms of saying the lines correctly but a process of entering into what it was all about.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Dad
  • Theatre
  • Saying

• We, some cast members and I, even went on a weekend trip together and spent the weekend at an inn, because we enjoy each other's company so much, and it was so cool.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Together
  • Cool
  • Enjoy

• No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Long
  • Man
  • Woman

• We are different people - you get a different take on the band whoever you speak to. Somehow, at the end of it, it goes through the filtering process and out comes the Radiohead thing.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • People
  • Different
  • Band

• It's weird to me to see how different everyone's opinion of beauty is.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Different
  • Me
  • Opinion

• I was a victim of a stereotype. There were only two of us Negro kids in the whole class, and our English teacher was always stressing the importance of rhythm in poetry. Well, everybody knows - except us - that all Negroes have rhythms, so they elected me class poet.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Kids
  • Me
  • Poetry

• Cherish your mistakes, and you won't keep making them over and over again. It's the same with heartbreaks and girls and everything else. Cherish them, and they'll put some wealth in you.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Same
  • Mistakes
  • Wealth

• Not only do we have to change the food we eat... we have to educate people about what they can eat appropriately.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • People
  • Food
  • Change

• When I was put in a situation where I'm going there, you have to look at the team and the possibility that hey, we can probably do some good things over there.

  

  Latrell Sprewell
  • Good
  • Team
  • Good Things

• Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied with science.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Science
  • Sex
  • Baseball

• A soul without reflection, like a pileWithout inhabitant, to ruin runs.

  

  Edward Young
  • Soul
  • Reflection

• They attracted Hurricanes and Spitfires as honey attracts flies.

  

  Adolf Galland

• It is by logic that we prove, but by intuition that we discover. To know how to criticize is good, to know how to create is better.

  

  Logic
  • Good
  • Logic
  • Intuition

• Nabokov, who I loved more than any other writer when I was young, had such contempt for dialogue. When I was younger, I never wrote a word of dialogue because of him. I thought it was a childish part of a novel.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Thought
  • Young
  • Loved

• I'm not living for when I have a Number One record or when I make a million trillion dollars. I'm not doing this to get somewhere else. I'm doing it because I'm doing it.'

  

  Dannii Minogue

• The one-cylinder ward is one in which the bishop handles all the problems, makes all the decisions, follows through on all the assignments, and faces every challenge. Then, like any other overworked cylinder, he starts to sputter and behave erratically. Eventually, he burns out altogether.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • Challenge
  • Burns
  • Bishop

• Philosophy, n. A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.

  

  Ambrose Bierce