Blaise Pascal Quotes

To call a king "Prince" is pleasing, because it diminishes his rank.

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• I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • People
  • Character
  • Comedy

• Along with issues like global warming, I think a problem with the world today is population decline.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • World
  • Today
  • Problem

• I want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy.

  

  Yves Saint Laurent
  • Women
  • Joy
  • Famous

• Searches of al Qaeda sites in Afghanistan, undertaken since American-backed forces took control there, are not known to have turned up a significant cache of nuclear materials.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Up
  • American
  • Control

• No matter how senior you get in an organization, no matter how well you're perceived to be doing, your job is never done.

  

  Abagail Johnson
  • Done
  • Job
  • Organization

• I'm originally from Fort Lauderdale: that's my home town in Florida. So when I'm on location, I just get the packets from schools in Florida. And when I go to Florida, I go to Christ Church School.

  

  Bailee Madison
  • School
  • Home
  • Church

• I sure am handsome. I can't lie. This is one handsome guy.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Guy
  • Lie
  • Sure

• You may have heard of the Slow Movement, which challenges the canard that faster is always better. You don't have to ditch your career, toss the iPhone, or join a commune to take part. Living 'Slow' just means doing everything at the right speed - quickly, slowly, or at whatever pace delivers the best results.

  

  Carl Honore
  • May
  • Career
  • Best

• I am into nature and seeing whales. I went whale-watching, and I was really looking forward to that, but when you see it on TV and you see other programs do it, you're seeing close-ups of these massive creatures, and the music that's added gives you a certain feeling.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Music
  • Nature
  • Feeling

• Everybody always laughs because I feel so much more comfortable with, like, a giant paper bag on my whole body and paint on my face. Sometimes I try really hard to take it all off. But inevitably what's underneath is still not a straight edge. And I don't think it ever will be.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Think
  • Sometimes
  • Body

• I love New York, and I'm drawn to a certain intensity of life, but I've just never felt like I want to escape from the Midwest. A writer lives a great deal in his own head, and so one intuitively finds places where your head is more clear. New York for me is one of those places.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Life
  • Great
  • Intensity

• There's always a theme I'm drawn to, that we humans are not good or bad. We're all a mixture of both. We can have great compassion or commit great violence.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • Good
  • Great
  • Bad

• While watching him work on the set of the film based on my life - Patch Adams - I saw that whenever there was a stressful moment, Robin would tap into his improvisation style to lighten the mood of cast and crew.

  

  Patch Adams
  • Life
  • Work
  • Style

• I do a lot of voice over for Japanese anime titles as well as live-action stuff and original stuff from the States. 'Legion of Super Heroes,' 'New Wolverine: The X - Men' animated series, 'Afro Samurai' and some live-action stuff, TV shows here and there - I like to mix it up.

  

  Yuri Lowenthal
  • Up
  • Men
  • Live

• I remember being about eight and watching 'Pollyanna' with Hayley Mills. I looked at my mum and said, 'Mum, I want to be Pollyanna.' She said, 'You're going to have to make yourself cry if you want to be an actress.' So I turned my head away, and when I turned it back I was in floods of tears.

  

  Laura Haddock
  • Remember
  • Tears
  • Actress

• Every nurse ought to be careful to wash her hands very frequently during the day. If her face, too, so much the better.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Day
  • Better
  • Hands

• The pressure makes me more intent about each shot. Pressure on the last few holes makes me play better.

  

  Nancy Lopez
  • Me
  • Play
  • Pressure

• I exist as I am, that is enough.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Enough
  • Exist

• For a while, I couldn't get arrested in television because everybody thought of me as that guy on 'Trapper John.' So I thought, 'Great, I'll come out here to New York and do some theater, and when they get tired of me, I'll do something else.'

  

  Brian Stokes Mitchell
  • Great
  • Guy
  • Tired

• I went to the library and began to read some stuff on my own. My discovery of James Baldwin was life-changing. I read Go Tell It on the Mountain first, and that was hugely impactful.

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
  • Mountain
  • Stuff
  • Library

• Acts of sacrifice and decency without regard to what's in it for you create a ripple effect. Ones that lift up families and communities, that spread opportunity.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Opportunity
  • Community

• The King himself should be under no man, but under God and the Law.

  

  Edward Coke
  • God
  • Law
  • King

• A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.

  

  Herodotus
  • Good
  • King
  • Rulers

• To call a king "Prince" is pleasing, because it diminishes his rank.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • King
  • Pleasing
  • Rank