Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield and I were so different from each other. I was doing very young movies, and Marilyn, who was ahead of me, was doing a lot of homogenized movies that weren't quite as wild as the ones I was doing. Jayne was more of a character of herself.
-
Afghanistan has moved forward and Afghanistan will defend itself. And the progress that we have achieved, the Afghan people will not allow it to be put back or reversed.
-
I don't feel under-taxed in any way at all.
-
I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it to be a career because I didn't believe there was a way to make money as a playwright without being lucky and I didn't feel particularly lucky.
-
My mom taught me to live by the three p's: to always be passionate, persistent, and prepared.
-
My family never missed a visit in eight months, ever. I cried coming out. I didn't cry coming in. There's a big difference. I believe that God put me there for a reason, Incarceration is serious.
-
You don't want to treat any one person as oracular.
-
The Dumnonii, whose city or fortress was at Exeter, were an important people. They occupied the whole of the peninsula from the River Parret to Land's End. East of the Tamar was Dyfnaint, the Deep Vales; west of it Corneu, the horn of Britain.
-
Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.
-
Empty values statements create cynical and dispirited employees, alienate customers, and undermine managerial credibility.
-
The public always picks quality.
-
When I was first starting out, you'd have to bang an old upright piano and stick a mike in it and it would always feed back and you could never turn it up loud enough to be heard and I would beat my hands black and blue and bloody.
-
What's missing in the musical theater is producers willing to nurture new work, raise the money and put it on.
-
I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.
-
'Democracy'
-
The aim of philosophy is to erect a wall at the point where language stops anyway.
-
I was a weird little kid. I was very irritable, bored, frustrated. I felt my imagination bubbling inside my head without having any way to express itself. Given a crayon and paper, I would not draw a train or a house. I would draw these monsters, beasts and demons.
-
'No Burden' is not necessarily ferocious.
-
A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.
-
I had always dreamed of winning Wimbledon and when it happened it was very stressful. It was more of a relief!
-
'Didn't Frankenstein get married?'Did he?' said Eggy. 'I don't know. I never met him. Harrow man, I expect.'
-
Being a good observer is a great tool to have as a writer, just taking the world in.
-
We are living in the time of self-creation and you can become your own star and this is the essential set that it needs to take that selfie that's going to take you to that next place.
-
225. What I hold fast to is not one proposition but a nest of propositions.
