Blaise Pascal Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.
-
I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.
-
The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
-
Anna Wintour has guided me.
-
I was not the pampered baby, no. I'm five years younger, and my parents were actually very strict with me, more strict than with the other ones.
-
When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
-
Prayer is man's greatest power!
-
On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
-
When you're listening to radio and hear the same 20 songs over and over and over, you want a break from it. Sometimes you don't want to hear something that sounds just like everything else on the radio. Eventually, if you hear the same sounds and the same musicians and the same mixes and all of that, it will start to sound like elevator music.
-
The oceans produce up to 70 percent of our oxygen, they shape our climate, and they support an American oceans economy larger than our nation's entire agriculture sector.
-
I want to communicate to the everyday person. I don't want to just roll around in my own avant-garde pool of coolness.
-
The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself.
-
The trouble with glossy magazines is that they tend to be stuffed with articles about handbag designers - the sort of women who, with their perfectly styled lives, immaculate houses, and adoring partners, make you want to become a hermit.
-
I was privileged to grow up in Mexico at a time when you could play in the streets. We lived not too far from the ocean, and we would be outside all the time with the neighbours' kids, running free. What better place could there be for a child?
-
We are hopeful that President Obama, in his State of the Union Address, will express a willingness to work with Republicans to enact all of these jobs bills.
-
Just making the crowd laugh is not really doing things for me anymore. That's just knowing how to kill; I've learned how to kill – but also learned when a crowd's laughter is meaningful.
-
I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many other votes of women and African Americans in Florida are being discounted or discarded. I want my vote to count.
-
I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them.
-
When I approach a story or movie, the story is the most important thing.
-
Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter.
-
We have over an hour of footage with Ken Marino. Same with Kevin Smith. Because you never know, when you let people who are so talented at improv go, what you're going to get. You don't want to strangle them with your own words, because probably what they're going to say is way better.
-
We won't just automatically click our heels and follow the Americans.
-
Meanings receive their dignity from words instead of giving it to them.
