Laurence Olivier Quotes

Never. The shot is too big for the cannon.

Laurence Olivier

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• It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Time
  • Voice
  • Silent

• I am proud to have played a small part in ensuring that no veteran's heroic service will be cast aside due to prejudice.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Play
  • Proud
  • Prejudice

• I just never, in my career, got into doing a lot of press.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Career
  • Doing
  • Press

• I wasn't into sports, but I was really into Shakespeare.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Sports
  • Really
  • Shakespeare

• Being brave enough to just be unapologetic for who you are, that's a goddess.

  

  Banks
  • You
  • Enough
  • Brave

• All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Together
  • Dream
  • Dreams

• The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion which existed before.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • True
  • Christian
  • Religion

• When the government takes more money out of the pockets of middle class Americans, entrepreneurs, and businesses, it lessens the available cash flow for people to spend on goods and services, less money to start businesses, and less money for businesses to expand - i.e. creating new jobs and hiring people.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • People
  • Money
  • Government

• Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Live
  • Children
  • Integrity

• I was not very keen on joining the family business... there were 14 family members working together, and it worried me that I would not have enough individuality.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Family
  • Business
  • Together

• And that's what happened to that show. It started ordinary, it started really rather bad. As I said, there was a review that said, really, we think the commercials are better than the show. And then it gradually developed.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Bad
  • Think
  • Better

• I'm not going to beat the cancer. I tried really hard... but sometimes you're just not going to beat the thing... I wanted to walk off the stage and say anything I thought was important; I had my hour.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Important
  • Thought
  • Cancer

• When National Guardsmen shot four unarmed students at Kent State, virtually the entire system of higher education shuddered and stopped.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Education
  • Students
  • System

• You ain't got the answers Sway!

  

  Kanye West

• I have no fear nor shrinking; I have seen death so often that it is not strange or fearful to me.

  

  Edith Cavell
  • Death
  • Fear

• The New Women! I could barely recognize them as being of the same sex as myself…They are satiated by everything, hungry for nothing. They are what I wanted to be; they are what I worked for them to be: and now I see them, I hate them.

  

  Fay Weldon
  • Women
  • Hate
  • Sex

• We are all-so to speak-intellectuals about something.

  

  Randall Jarrell

• Upon the bank, she stood In the cool Of spent emotions. She felt, among the leaves, The dew Of old devotions.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • She
  • Cool

• I'm gazing at church and palace, ruin and column,Like a serious man making sensible use of a journey,But soon it will happen, and all will be one vast temple,Love's temple, receiving its new initiate.Though you're a whole world, Rome, still, without Love,The world isn't the world, and Rome can't be Rome.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • World
  • Church
  • Serious

• When I was a little girl, my grandfather, who I was very close to, used to grow yellow roses. He had yellow roses growing all the way up his drive.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Growing

• Don't get up from the feast of life without paying for your share of it.

  

  Dean Inge
  • Life
  • Up

• It's very hard to play a hyperactive character all the time, I try my best, but I end up collapsing at the end of the day.

  

  Ben Nicholas
  • Up
  • Time
  • Character

• Never. The shot is too big for the cannon.

  

  Laurence Olivier