Alfred Hitchcock Quotes

Hitchcock: You know that I think all actors are cattle? George Raft: Yes, I know-but I'm no actor.

Alfred Hitchcock

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• I definitely think that myself and Sam will help the Timberwolves.

  

  Latrell Sprewell
  • Help
  • Think
  • Myself

• While I knew that individuals had in history - and still could - make a difference, it seemed presumptuous - even pompous - to imagine that I could be part of it, that I could be one of them.

  

  Samantha Power
  • History
  • Make A Difference

• Many of depression's symptoms - exhaustion, insomnia, nausea, headaches, weight loss, weight gain - are physical ailments.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Depression
  • Loss
  • Insomnia

• Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Men
  • Truth
  • Small

• When I was living in New York and didn't have a penny to my name, I would walk around the streets and occasionally I would see an alcove or something. And I'd think, that'll be good, that'll be a good spot for me when I'm homeless.

  

  Larry David
  • Good
  • New York
  • Homeless

• You never know what the future holds, so I am just enjoying being happy, healthy, and having my wonderful husband by my side.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Happy
  • Future
  • Husband

• Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.

  

  Walter Mosley
  • Music
  • Poetry
  • Metaphor

• I don't know whether I want to improve religion or not. I prefer to get rid of it.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Want
  • Know
  • Religion

• I half knew what to expect when I saw the cricket ground in the morning. It was when I started to talk to people working out there, I began to find what I was looking for.

  

  Ian Botham
  • People
  • Morning
  • Looking

• Basketball's eras are defined by teams - Celtics, Lakers, Bulls - and baseball's epochs are defined by players - Ruth, Robinson, Mantle - but with football, it's the sideline strategists, the nutty professors and top coated Lears.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Football
  • Baseball
  • Basketball

• I had a hit talk show. I just wasn't working for the right people.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • People
  • Right
  • Working

• The more I talk to people who are at a place I'd like to be at, whether its music or writing, or being a doctor or entrepreneur, sometimes you get lucky, and right away something happens. But for most people, the common denominator of success is just working really hard.

  

  K. Flay
  • People
  • Music
  • Writing

• It's my impression that I've done every job that I've been asked to do.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Done
  • Job
  • Impression

• The real problem is what to do with the problem-solvers after the problems are solved.

  

  Gay Talese
  • Real
  • Problem
  • Problems

• I have done one thing that I think is a contribution: I helped Buddhist science and modern science combine. No other Buddhist has done that. Other lamas, I don't think they ever pay attention to modern science. Since my childhood, I have a keen interest.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Done
  • Think
  • Science

• Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied later Christians. He went around doing good and being compassionate.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Time
  • Good
  • Great

• Then, all of a sudden, here I am in the Press Room in the White House and walking in with the guards, who handed me three little pieces of paper asking me to send pictures to the guards at the White House.

  

  Majel Barrett
  • Pictures
  • Room
  • Press

• I cite these events because I think they underline two very disturbing phenomena - the loss of U.S. international credibility, the growing U.S. international isolation.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Think
  • Growing
  • Loss

• I'm really good at making software for publishing.

  

  Matt Mullenweg
  • Good

• Well you're in your little room and you're working on something good but if it's really good you're gonna need a bigger room and when you're in the bigger room you might not know what to do you might have to think of how you got started sitting in your little room

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Good
  • Think
  • Room

• I am always excited about playing in front of live audiences because I really enjoy it, for the most part.

  

  Valerie June
  • Enjoy
  • Playing
  • Audiences

• I wanted to have a career that would last a hundred years if possible.

  

  Mario Andretti
  • Career

• On December 31st of 1958 Lila had her first episode of dissolving margins, The term isn't mine, she always used it. She said that on those occasions the outlines of people and things suddenly dissolved, disappeared. That night, on the terrace where we were celebrating the arrival of 1959, when she was abruptly struck by that sensation, she was frightened and kept it to herself, still unable to name it. It was only years later, one night in November 1980--we were thirty-six, were married, had children--that she recounted in detail what had happened to her then, what still sometimes happened to her, and she used that term for the first time.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Children
  • Married
  • Occasions

• Hitchcock: You know that I think all actors are cattle? George Raft: Yes, I know-but I'm no actor.

  

  Alfred Hitchcock