E. M. Forster Quotes

Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.

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• Sean Connery wasn't the Scottish James Bond and Daniel Craig wasn't the blue-eyed James Bond. So if I played him, I don't want to be called the black James Bond.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Want
  • Black
  • Blue

• Lord of the Rings made me realize that I'm not interested in doing anyone else's work.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Work
  • Lord
  • Interested

• I remember going up and doing 'Bridge Over Troubled Water' with Paul Simon, Santana playing up there with us.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Water

• I wanted to write a happy song. I didn't know how.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Happy
  • Song
  • Know

• My favorite thing to do in this world is to be on the ice playing hockey and try to entertain fans and bring wins to the Chicago Blackhawks.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • World
  • Chicago
  • Hockey

• I'm not interested in just beautiful girls and beautiful clothes.

  

  Francesco Carrozzini
  • Beautiful
  • Clothes
  • Just

• I'm consistently telling stories about the value of the human condition and connectedness and things like that.

  

  J. H. Wyman
  • Value
  • Things
  • Human

• Steve Jobs is the most epic entrepreneur of all time. He served as a guiding light for any emerging businessperson who wanted to learn how things should get done. He'll be looked at as one of the best business leaders of all time, and certainly one of the best tech entrepreneurs.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • Time
  • Done
  • Business

• An actor is working steady if he's active four to six months a year.

  

  Zach Galligan
  • Working
  • Year
  • Active

• England is a nation of shopkeepers.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Nation
  • England

• If apartheid is removed, then the violence that is necessary to maintain it will be removed along with the pressures from apartheid which create a violent response.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Violence
  • Create
  • Will

• There is no other prize in any country that carries the prestige that a Nobel bestows.

  

  Barry Marshall
  • Country
  • Other
  • Carries

• Polka dots can't stay alone. When we obliterate nature and our bodies with polka dots, we become part of the unity of our environments.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Nature
  • Alone
  • Unity

• It always takes a scandal to bring about reform.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • Always
  • Bring
  • Reform

• For skincare, I'm a Clean and Clear girl. Especially with the humidity in Georgia, Clean and Clear has been pretty good to me with all of the makeup we have to wear. My skin really responds to that product. I'm also a big fan of Kiehl's under-eye avocado cream.

  

  Candice Accola
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Girl

• Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts.

  

  Hans Eysenck
  • Business
  • Science
  • Politics

• I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • Long
  • Remember
  • I Can

• As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Food
  • Control
  • Living

• There were days when Keanu was looking a little green from the amount of cigarettes we were having him smoke.

  

  Francis Lawrence
  • Smoking
  • Smoke
  • Amount

• They played so good it was frightening. And I, of course, being young, was in awe of everything that was going on and rightly so. I mean, it was too good to believe.

  

  Ray Brown
  • Believe
  • Everything
  • Played

• In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal. The historian decides what is significant, and what is not.

  

  Samuel E. Morison
  • History
  • Alone
  • Design

• In any human-rights campaign, everybody must do what they can.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Everybody
  • Campaign
  • Must

• Art isn't only a painting; it's anything that changes someone for the better, any nonanonymous interaction that leads to a human (not simply a commercial) conclusion.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Art
  • Painting
  • Conclusion

• Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Something
  • Vulgarity