Blaise Pascal Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I kind of found a niche for myself after 'Firefly'. I found something that I enjoyed doing and that I did well, but as far as how I seek out a part, it's always different. It's always something that lights you on fire when you read it. It might be just one scene, it might be one line that defines the character for you.
-
And our dreams are who we are.
-
I am definitely romantic, and I love romantic stories - that's why I keep making romantic movies.
-
India is a democracy; it is in our DNA.
-
In Denmark, we're making 20 films a year. If I'm showing up in even two of those, people will get tired of me really fast.
-
New York was at the forefront of rap, so because of all the great people who have gone before me, being a rapper from Queens, I have to live up to those standards. I'm basically just a regular guy who says what he feels and likes to joke. I like long walks on the beach... and I love rap.
-
No. I mean those people really did something for designers I don't think department stores can, could or should do still today. Today the world is different so you have to make it differently. There's TV. There's a lot of things.
-
I've been married to the same woman for forty years, and whenever people ask us how we managed to stay married for so long, we usually say as one voice, 'What's the secret? Don't get divorced!'
-
I think awards are good for the movie. They can bring a new audience to the movie. I've always claimed that things like that don't get you work. Work gets you work. That's my blue-collar, protestant work ethic.
-
Crime novels, it has been said, show the human psyche under pressure.
-
You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
-
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
-
My father is very dry and very quick-witted, and my mother is very silly. It was the perfect combination because I got an education in physical and verbal comedy.
-
You can't hold up a blog; you can hold up a magazine.
-
If you want to call me names, make jokes and doubt my intentions, go ahead, because the reality is I can take it.
-
There are signs jobs will be plentiful in the future, if we train and prepare for it. That means investing in technology, innovation, and, as much as Republicans will hate to hear this, renewable energy.
-
I'm so proud of my Chinese ancestry, but I was born and raised in America, and I really believe in American values, our American system, our freedom, our liberties.
-
I rarely listen to music while writing. If I don't like it, it bothers me, and if I like it, it absorbs me so much I can't write.
-
When you play with good players, they will always create chances for the forwards to score.
-
The only way the past can drag you back is if you choose to bring it with you into the present.
-
Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths.
-
Even after I had just done Twilight, which made $400 million at the worldwide box office, I could not get financing for three or four projects that I really loved and I thought people would love because they didn't fit some studio or investor's model of thinking, "This will definitely make money." It's a business and a film does potentially cost millions of dollars, and they have to think that they're going to get their money back somehow.
-
I'm proud of the fact that I pitched almost 3,300 innings.
-
By thought I embrace the universe.
