Alan Arkin Quotes

I never had a better role than I had in 'Little Miss Sunshine.' That was one of my favorite roles ever.

Alan Arkin

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• All the teaching I had ever received had failed to make me apply such intelligence as I was possessed of, directly and vividly: there had never been any sunshine, as regards language, in the earlier grey days of learning, for the sky had always pelted with gerunds and optatives.

  

  E. F. Benson
  • Learning
  • Sky
  • Intelligence

• Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

  

  Hans Christian Andersen
  • Nature
  • Freedom
  • Flower

• Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Up
  • Today
  • Day

• The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Art
  • Light
  • Simplicity

• There's that old journalism rule that sunshine is the great disinfectant - which is how reporters bust their way into meetings and such all the time. In sports, I really think winning is the great disinfectant.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Time
  • Great
  • Sports

• Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Fall
  • inspirational
  • Sunshine

• I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • House
  • Sunshine

• As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form,Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm,-Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread,Eternal sunshine settles on its head.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Storm
  • Clouds
  • Sunshine

• I have ever remarked, that when Fate has any great misfortune in store, it is always preceded by a brief period of calm and sunshine-as if to add bitterness of contrast to all other misery. It is for the happy to tremble-it is over their heads that the thunderbolt is about to burst.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Great
  • Happy
  • Period

• Sunshine came softly through my a-window todayCould've tripped out easy a-but I've a-changed my waysIt'll take time, I know it but in a whileYou're gonna be mine, I know it, we'll do it in style'Cause I made my mind up you're going to be mine.

  

  Donovan
  • Up
  • Time
  • Mind

• The sunshine dreaming upon Salmon’s heightIs not so sweet and whiteAs the most heretofore sin-spotted SoulThat darts to its delightStraight from the absolution of a faithful fight.

  

  Coventry Patmore
  • Sweet
  • Sunshine

• I've never really been a careerist; I've never been able to step back and look at anything in that way. I though this is just what happens. I did take my work very seriously. I loved immersing myself in a character. I loved getting the opportunity to do that. I didn't realize how extraordinary it was, how lucky I was, because I was young.

  

  Jennifer Jason Leigh
  • Work
  • Character
  • Opportunity

• If you write fiction, you have to love your characters. It's like your family. You don't have to like them, but you have to love them.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Family

• Nobody needs a smile so much as the one who has none to give. So get used to smiling heart-warming smiles, and you will spread sunshine in a sometimes dreary world.

  

  Lawrence G. Lovasik
  • World
  • Heart
  • Smile

• To copy Nature? A boy with a camera can do that. To get the spirit of Nature? A woodman or a shepherd can follow the trail of the whistling wind to hoarded sunshine in distant wolds. But to interpret Nature and inform it with a human personality that rises above it, invokes the divine in it, is the work of genius.

  

  Ameen Rihani
  • Work
  • Nature
  • Boy

• Anyone's life truly lived consists of work, sunshine, exercise, soap, plenty of fresh air, and a happy contented spirit.

  

  Lillie Langtry
  • Life
  • Work
  • Happy

• I've been waiting for that bright sunshine to show up and shine in my back door someday.

  

  Luther Allison
  • Up
  • Waiting
  • Door

• My favourite movie of all-time is 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.' I love Kate Winslet.

  

  Alia Bhatt
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Movie

• I am pleased to report that Texas is known for having one of the strongest set of open government laws in our Nation. And ever since that experience, I have long believed that our federal government could use 'a little Texas sunshine.'

  

  John Cornyn
  • Long
  • Experience
  • Texas

• I have a 4-year-old and a 14-year-old, and think I missed a recital and a graduation, and they were like 'It's OK mommy, we'll take pictures.' It was my upset, though... they were just fine! I just give them a kiss and a hug and let them know that I love them every day.

  

  Kimberly Quinn
  • Kiss
  • Hug
  • Graduation

• I use my intuition. I tell my students: use your brains, but also use another part of yourself.

  

  Jim Goldberg
  • Intuition

• I'm probably going to go more the feature film route for a while, just so I have more time on my hands. If I did go back to television, I'd do a comedy, a half hour. Or I'd go back on an hour long if it was ensemble, if I had a smaller role, if I could work less days.

  

  Ally Walker
  • Time
  • Work
  • Long

• New Hampshire has always been a good state.

  

  Adam Gardner Tufts Beelzebubs
  • Good
  • State
  • New Hampshire

• I never had a better role than I had in 'Little Miss Sunshine.' That was one of my favorite roles ever.

  

  Alan Arkin
  • Sunshine