Leo Tolstoy Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.
-
You know who we hear about all the rappers from? The bus drivers.
-
I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.
-
What I have is P.H. positive chronic myeloid leukemia, which is an aberration in your white blood cells.
-
I grew up in the South and went to church a lot.
-
Fiorello LaGuardia saved City Center. The real man saved it, and he made this building into a performing arts venue.
-
Basically, I get paid to be crazy. I get paid to believe I'm someone else, live in a completely false reality, and believe it's real. And that's a little scary. And I do it to the best of my ability. But it's kind of like swimming out to sea. You have to leave enough energy to swim back, and sometimes you get scared you swam too far.
-
Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
-
Your most precious possessions on offense are your twenty-seven outs.
-
Life is tragic comedy, in a way. There is humor.
-
Change is inevitable. Things absolutely cannot stay the same. The type of change we invoke is up to each and every one of us.
-
He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.
-
What I think is fair to say is that, coming out of the Republican camp, there have been efforts to suggest that perhaps I'm not who I say I am when it comes to my faith - something which I find deeply offensive, and that has been going on for a pretty long time.
-
Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.
-
The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.
-
The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
-
I think as a filmmaker one should make all kinds of films. It is not that one should make only one kind of film. I love to see romantic films; I loved watching 'Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge,' 'Kuch Kuch Hota Hai.' If I make such films, I will make it with my yardstick, according to my parameters.
-
You've got to separate the singer and the songs.
-
I've always had a tendency to push the envelope as far as it can go without hurting someone's feelings.
-
I'm more comfortable writing traditional protagonists. But 'Steve Jobs' and 'The Social Network' have antiheroes. I like to write antiheroes as if they're making their case to God about why they should be allowed into heaven. I have to find something in that character that is like me and write to that.
-
I love Jamaica so much. I've been there so much, and I think it would be great if we could shoot a movie there.
-
People are supposed to fear the unknown, but ignorance is bliss when the knowledge is so damn frightening.
-
I can get on with all different sorts of people, and I never feel homesick, particularly, or I've never felt kind of patriotic towards any one country.
-
Wealth is a great sin in the eyes of God. Poverty is a great sin in the eyes of man.
