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

• Athletics is in my blood.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Blood
  • Athletics

• 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

• Obey the voice at eve obeyed at prime.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

• 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

• I find that any luminous body when seen through a dense and thick mist diminishes in proportion to its distance from the eye. Thus it is with the sun by day, as well as the moon and the other eternal lights by night. And when the air is clear, these luminaries appear larger in proportion as they are farther from the eye.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Night
  • Air
  • Sun

• I like questions that tee me up to make weird jokes, frankly.

  Colson Whitehead
  • Up
  • Weird

• To be free. Such a thing would be greater than all the magic and all the treasures in all the world.

  

  Robin Williams
  • Free
  • Magic
  • To Be

• The quarterly results we announced last week showed once again how far we have come on our journey over the past few years.

  

  Brian Moynihan
  • Years
  • Journey
  • Results

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

  

  Ambrose Bierce