Andrew Marvell Quotes

How fit is he to sway That can so well obey ('Horatian Ode,' 83-84),

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• Why should I give you an interview? All you journalists are plagiarists.

  

  Sam Peckinpah
  • Why
  • You
  • Interview

• My dream role is Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Dream
  • Black
  • Champion

• It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • May
  • Speak
  • Act

• If you've got a big gut and you start doing sit-ups, you are going to get bigger because you build up the muscle. You've got to get rid of that fat! How do you get rid of fat? By changing your diet.

  

  Jack LaLanne
  • Up
  • Start
  • Diet

• I love acting. I've been doing it since I was 16, and it's in my nature. It's the thing I do best. But as much as I love acting, I love cinema more. I always had a thing about creating images.

  

  Valeria Golino
  • Nature
  • Best
  • Creating

• I found college useful for a lot of other reasons. It exposed me to a great many influences I wouldn't otherwise have encountered, and gave me a lot of time with some very intelligent people whose thoughts are still with me.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• I'm very into science-fantasy, that kind of swordfights and magic and technology thing.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Science
  • Technology
  • Kind

• My first day of high school, I wore brown boys' corduroys that my mom had sewn Sesame Street elastic into - they were my coolest pants - and a lime green Patagonia fleece that my mom found at Goodwill. I loved fleece.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • School
  • High
  • Day

• I think what we've been able to do with 'Longmire' is balance this procedural with a bit of a soap opera, and it's a character study of this character, Walt Longmire, and the people around him.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Character
  • Study

• On the 1st day of December, 1830, I was confirmed, and in accordance with the word of the Lord I was ordained an Elder under the hands of the Prophet.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • Day
  • Hands
  • December

• When you watch a film, a huge part of it is the music and the coloring and everything that comes together to create such a unique film. So, reading the script, I had no idea what it was gonna be.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Music
  • Together
  • Reading

• You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory.

  

  J. Donald Walters
  • Trying
  • Peace
  • Problems

• It had been almost 30 years since the LPGA has played in Mexico. We are definitely looking forward to playing there next year and also coming back to play in Mexico in a month or so.

  

  Natalie Gulbis
  • Year
  • Month
  • Looking Forward

• Ever since I was a teenager, my style around girls has been kinda like 'laid back in da cut.'

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Style
  • Like
  • Teenager

• Almost every girl falls in love with the wrong man, I suppose it's part of growing up.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Love
  • Man
  • Girl

• I think that sometimes love gets in the way of itself - you know, love interrupts itself. We want things so much that we sabotage them.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Love
  • Think
  • Know

• The European vision is the United Nations' vision.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Vision
  • United Nations

• There are so many screenwriters with incredible stories to tell, so I hope there will be some kind of shift in the business where very few types of movies are now made by the studios. There needs to be different budgets for different audiences; not everything having to be a huge opening weekend.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Different
  • Business
  • Hope

• Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

  

  Max Ernst
  • Time
  • Reality
  • Painting

• If an overgrown child draws something on a piece of paper, you can't ask the paper what the drawing is supposed to represent.

  

  Jostein Gaarder
  • Child
  • Draws
  • Represent

• Science seems to be at war with itself.... Naive realism leads to physics, and physics, if true, shows naive realism to be false. Therefore naive realism, if true, is false; therefore it is false.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • War
  • True
  • Science

• During my performances, I don't like folks to take pictures because I feel that we live in a very photographic time. Photography was invented over 100 years ago, and now it's at its peak because everyone has a camera. The fact that they are taking experiences and filtering them through a mechanical lens I find amazing, but also disheartening. Amazing when you have photographs that start revolutions. Disheartening when you have people making photographs but not living.

  

  Xaviera Simmons
  • Experiences
  • Performances
  • Photographs

• I have my parents to thank for that, they raised me to be active and play all sports. They taught me the importance of staying healthy, being focused and setting goals in whatever I do.

  

  Kiana Tom
  • Parents
  • Sports
  • Goals

• How fit is he to sway That can so well obey ('Horatian Ode,' 83-84),

  

  Andrew Marvell