Amitabh Bachchan Quotes
When I was exposed to brighter lights, I began noticing prettier things, faster cars, motorbikes...girls! Then just like any young man I wanted it all!
Quotes to Explore
-
Limitlessness is important for me; I want to be able to use every opportunity to push me forward onto the next thing.
-
You can't be perfect. You can't be the perfect father. You can't be the perfect singer.
-
I can be very passionate but I also have a bit of a hot temper - when pushed.
-
Remember, I'm a doctor's daughter. So obviously I'm interested in all medical things.
-
For the undocumented immigrants, the big priority is just to get out from the shadows, be able to get a driver's license, buy an airplane ticket and stop worrying about sudden deportation. But for the country as a whole, it's crucial that everybody have a citizen's stake in the nation's welfare.
-
You know how macho boys get when they're all together? Well, the set of 'Desperado' was like that. They were all trying to put me down, saying, 'Bring on the stuntwoman, Salma can't do that.' But I did everything.
-
Truth is slippery, not because it is difficult to grasp, but because we prefer our preconceptions, our beliefs, our myths.
-
Demosthenes: Do you dare to accuse wine of clouding the reason? Quote me more marvellous effects than those of wine. Look! when a man drinks, he is rich, everything he touches succeeds, he gains lawsuits, is happy and helps his friends. Come, bring hither quick a flagon of wine, that I may soak my brain and get an ingenious idea. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)
-
If you don't include your women graduates in your breeding pool and leave them on the shelf, you would end up a more stupid society... So what happens? There will be less bright people to support dumb people in the next generation. That's a problem.
-
People seem good while they are oppressed, but they only wish to become oppressors in their turn: life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
-
Down to the Puritan marrow of my bones There’s something in this richness that I hate. I love the look, austere, immaculate, Of landscapes drawn in pearly monotones. There’s something in my very blood that owns Bare hills, cold silver on a sky of slate, A thread of water, churned to milky spate Streaming through slanted pastures fenced with stones.
-
It is the natural effect of improvement, however, to diminish gradually the real price of almost all manufactures.
-
Der Philister … ist demnach ein Mensch ohne geistige Bedürfnisse. Hieraus nun folgt gar mancherlei: erstlich, in Hinsicht auf ihn selbst, daß er ohne geistige Genüsse bleibt; nach dem schon erwähnten Grundsatz: il n’est pas de vrais plaisirs qu’avec de vrais besoins.
-
Lo que sé lo soporto con lo que no sé.
-
Who is wise in love, love most, say least.
-
I opened up for Richard Pryor in 1992. I had a conversation with him. All those other comedians can say what they want about what they did, but I opened up for the man. Paul Mooney and I are probably the only ones that can say that.
-
Franklin Roosevelt was very concerned about environmental issues.
-
Growing up in Manhattan has given me a thick skin.
-
My feet are not a good part of my body. They definitely have suffered for my art. They're, like, all bunions and blisters.
-
Speaking to humans was so vastly different from tweeting...But this way we all had to sit in the same set of thoughts for over an hour. The connection felt very good.
-
The word 'racist' is a permanent stain against my name. It's worse than a criminal record. Some people will never forgive me. Others will accept I made a terrible mistake and recognise I have learnt from it. It's on YouTube when my kids type in their dad's name, and it comes up 'Jamie Vardy racist'. On Google, too. It's horrible.
-
Television is an isolating experience, sadly enough. I'm sorry to say it. But as good as it ever gets, it's still isolating. You sit in your home and visit with no one.
-
When I was exposed to brighter lights, I began noticing prettier things, faster cars, motorbikes...girls! Then just like any young man I wanted it all!
