Alice Cary Quotes

There's nothing so kingly as kindness, and nothing so royal as truth.

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• In terms of 'Seinfeld', I think there's lot of reality in a show that's supposed to be about nothing.

  

  Wale
  • Think
  • Reality
  • Nothing

• 'The Outsiders' cast in particular was a joy to be around - sweet kids, normal goofy teenagers off camera and serious artists on. They were great. I never got them mixed up with the characters, though. Each of them had his own strong personality.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Up
  • Great
  • Kids

• It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was once a journalistic hack, and I can personally testify to how frustrated they are. Pol Pot left a very edgy photo collection behind. And Osama seems quite interested in video.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Poetry
  • Very
  • I Can

• People say you should go out at the top but I was enjoying my football so much. Robbie Fowler's exactly the same: he's not playing for money any more, he's playing for enjoyment. Why go out at the top if it's going to make you miserable? I just wanted to play as long as I could.

  

  Ian Rush
  • People
  • Long
  • Money

• I'm not super into sports.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Sports
  • Super

• Pray to Christ for me that the animals will be the means of making me a sacrificial victim for God.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • God
  • Me
  • Animals

• Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Down
  • Mine
  • Appearances

• I believe that everybody has the right to view his or her own body as a palette. However, I think intellectuals should at least try to be role models.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Believe
  • Body
  • View

• You can't hold up a blog; you can hold up a magazine.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Up
  • You
  • Hold

• My dad never told me that when you audition, you might not get the role. He wanted to wait until my first disappointment to tell me.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Me
  • Dad
  • Role

• When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

  

  Pat Riley
  • Great
  • Team
  • Search

• I grew up here and my friends are here. There's nothing wrong with here.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Friends
  • Nothing
  • Wrong

• You might say that a creative person is a person who simply has a desire to have something, to add something to the world that's not there yet, and goes about arranging fort that to happen.. ..when you desire a work of art and make it, you've added to the stock of art in the world. Artists are one of the people who can do that: add to the stock of things.

  

  Carl Andre
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• I didn’t at first because horror movies scared me too much, but I really do love the genre and it’s a playground where you can really be artistic and create ideas in the minds of the audience and portray the unreal. It’s very cool experimentation ground for a filmmaker.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Cool

• Laugh at what you hold sacred, and still hold it sacred.

  

  Abraham Maslow

• I've taken a number of creative leaps, and some of them worked, and some of them didn't, but I don't regret any of them because you can't possibly get to the ones that work without the ones that don't.

  

  Laeta Kalogridis
  • Work
  • Taken
  • Regret

• The good thing about feature films is that the budgets tend to scale.

  

  Burnie Burns
  • Good

• I met a zillion people through Ronnie Wood. He's been my friend since he was in The Faces, and he's still my best friend. A real person, earthy, working 24 hours a day, uplifting to be around, and he's still got that fire about music.

  

  Robert Dwayne Womack
  • People
  • Music
  • Real

• I've always been me. I've always been very direct and have told the truth and have been very willing to stand up and speak out.

  

  Bev Perdue
  • Up
  • Truth

• No words can describe the personal liberation that heading seaward bestows upon me. In this aquatic realm, no man or woman is subject to the petty decrees of social bureaucracy.

  

  Paul Watson
  • Words
  • Petty

• Only if I reach 100 years old will I write a very complete autobiography. Not before.

  

  Mario Vargas Llosa

• New York has influenced me a lot in terms of my own independence. I'm really struck by the idea of authenticity, and I think New York embodies that idea, even though people are like, 'I miss the old New York.' But at its core, it has this natural, authentic energy. L.A. lacks that idea; it's painted over.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • People
  • Idea
  • Independence

• I'm one of those people who happen to like trees. I don't know why - I just do. As a kid, I loved to climb them. The distant, upper branches, especially, were celestial and alluring.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • People
  • Why
  • Trees

• There's nothing so kingly as kindness, and nothing so royal as truth.

  

  Alice Cary
  • Truth
  • Kindness
  • Royal