Alfred Nobel Quotes

Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age.

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• The acting bug just seemed to stick with me. I loved going to theatre school in college and continued to train in film classes and had been auditioning for T.V. and movie roles since I was in my late teens. My career has been slow and steady, and I kind of like it that way.

  

  Laura Mennell
  • School
  • Movie
  • Career

• Marty Russo was too good a golfer to be a servant of the people.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • People
  • Good
  • Servant

• When I see other working actresses that are brown, I get so excited. I get so excited when I see Zoe Kravitz, Janelle Monae, Taraji P. Henson, Ava Duvernay, and all these beautiful women working.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Women
  • Beautiful
  • Working

• I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.

  

  Utah Phillips
  • Power
  • Friends
  • Fame

• Try not to eat after 7 P.M. Try to stay away from heavy food in the night, like hamburgers and chicken nuggets. Eat that stuff in the morning or early afternoon.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Night
  • Food
  • Morning

• It's embarrassing to be involved in the same business as the mainstream comic thing. It's still very embarrassing to tell other adults that I draw comic books - their instant, preconceived notions of what that means.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Business
  • Same
  • Tell

• People can be so neglectful of each other and of their own heritage - then death intrudes. Conversations we wish that we'd had earlier are had too late.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • People
  • Death
  • Wish

• I'm a big believer you should design work around a vast majority of people who want to do the right thing rather than around the tiny minority who might take advantage.

  

  Gail Kelly
  • People
  • Work
  • Design

• I like that totally mixed up kind of eclectic group of personal props and bits of costume and I think the fun of doing that is where I was very lucky with Doctor Who.

  

  Lalla Ward
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Doing

• A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties.

  

  Harriet Martineau
  • Great
  • Soul
  • Small

• I would hope the NBA Players Association would say that people like LeBron could come out early because he's so gifted, but if you stay, you stay three years. Your skill level will be greater, and the chances of you going to the NBA are much greater.

  

  Larry Brown
  • People
  • Hope
  • Skill

• The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Heart
  • Past
  • Present

• What thrust us into war were not Hitler's political teachings: the cause, this time, was his successful attempt to establish a new economy. The causes of the war were: envy, greed, and fear.

  

  J. F. C. Fuller
  • Time
  • War
  • Political

• All drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with your self-esteem. They’re no good at all. But I’m not going to go around preaching against them.

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • Time
  • Good
  • Respect

• Nobody wanted to dance, when i had a lot of time on my hands, now i have a lot of hands on my time, and everybody wants to be a friend of mine, wo wo.

  

  Outkast
  • Time
  • Friend
  • Dance

• Dear and most respected bookcase! I welcome your existence, which has for over one hundred years been devoted to the radiant ideals of goodness and justice.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Justice

• My mom has given me my sense of style. She has taught me how individual style is so beautiful, what you appreciate on someone else might not be good for you. For her, style is all about being comfortable, and she has an innate sense of sophisticated style.

  

  Bibhu Mohapatra
  • Good
  • She
  • Beautiful

• A woman, like a man, should be treated with human decency, according to the rule of law, and free of the abusive, unjust exercise of power. And you don't need to have plumbed the depths of the female or male psyche to live in accord with these principles of civilized life and the maxims of a free society.

  

  Bill Kristol
  • Life
  • Live
  • Power

• I've been composing music all my life and if I'd been clever enough at school I would like to have gone to music college.

  

  Anthony Hopkins
  • Life
  • Music
  • School

• Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to a careless and thoughtless state of life, and yields to the lust of the flesh, not considering that this lust is really the forbidden tree.

  

  Johann Arndt
  • Life
  • Up
  • Tree

• When my daughter left for college, I lost my in-house consultant to youth culture. There's just stuff I don't get. And there's something kind of pathetic about someone my age trying to pretend she gets it, so I don't try to pretend.

  

  Emily Yoffe
  • Age
  • House
  • Culture

• My belief is that when the military is used as the sole instrument of power, that never has a good outcome. If there's no one to take ownership and develop that failed state, human suffering can be even worse than that created by the conflict itself.

  

  Martin Dempsey
  • Good
  • Power
  • Suffering

• This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Love
  • Meet
  • Breath

• Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age.

  

  Alfred Nobel
  • Age
  • Industry
  • Agriculture