Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes
I work quite diligently and wish that I were better and smarter. And these both are one and the same.
Quotes to Explore
-
I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
-
It's hard to always be on top. You go down, you go up.
-
I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
-
Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.
-
I've listened to female vocalists my whole life. That's what I love. I still listen to guys' vocals and don't get taken aback a lot.
-
There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.
-
The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
-
I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.
-
There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
-
Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages.
-
Whereas, generally speaking, zinc reacts suitably only with the first members of the alkyl iodides, with magnesium it is possible to use bromides, iodides, and in many cases, chlorides.
-
Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.
-
I don't think anything I've written has been done in under six or eight drafts. Usually it takes me a few years to write a book. 'World's Fair' was an exception. It seemed to be a particularly fluent book as it came. I did it in seven months. I think what happened in that case is that God gave me a bonus book.
-
When people use their hurt and make a triumph in their song, that helps other people.
-
I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good.
-
I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
-
I have always been interested in design, but in the beginning I didn't set out to make jewelry specifically.
-
When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that's already great, that's already stood the test of time, that's already special. When you're trying to do it all from scratch, you're writing something brand new that has to stand on its own.
-
I don't sleep well. I rehash everything in bed. The mind's still working.
-
There's always been something a little pathetic for me at the work parties I've attended, especially thinking back to the restaurants I worked in. I remember a Christmas party in which we all got free T-shirts with the restaurant on the front and our names on the back.
-
When a country loses its identity, it no longer knows what it is or where it comes from and what its real worth is. So it dissolves.
-
Use the environment to remind you of what needs to be done. If you're afraid you'll forget to buy milk on the way home, put an empty milk carton on the seat next to you in the car or in the backpack you carry to work on the subway.
-
I don't think so much about verbal comedy. I always think about visual comedy. I was raised watching silents, and I'm always thinking about how to make cinema, not good talking - although I want good talking. I'm much more interested in framing, composition, and orchestration of bodies in space, and so forth.
-
I work quite diligently and wish that I were better and smarter. And these both are one and the same.
