Antonio Machado Quotes
It is good knowing that glasses are to drink from; the bad thing is not to know what thirst is for.
Quotes to Explore
-
I think when you're a director, it's hard to do something unless you're absolutely over-the-moon in love with it. The audience, they spend 90 minutes with it, but for you, it's anywhere between a year and a half to three years of your life, every day, working on it.
-
Nobody really believes in equality anyway.
-
Children should neither be seen or heard from - ever again.
-
Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.
-
We all serve a purpose. My purpose isn't to be rejected. My purpose isn't to think small or to be introverted. This door closed is literally pushing me to the next door.
-
It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.
-
I think we're the first generation to successfully integrate American society.
-
I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
-
We adore chaos because we love to produce order.
-
I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
-
I'd hate this to get out but I really like opera.
Ford Frick -
I'm working on a bunch of things with my daughter Emily. In some ways, she's a smarter and better editor than I am.
-
Everybody hates you when you're the best, and everybody hates you when you're the worst.
-
In a way, it's good not to be recognised as much off screen.
-
At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers.
-
Well, the average person comes home from work really tired, and just wants to flip through channels until they land on the thing that's the least objectionable to them. They're not looking for their new favorite TV show because they know that that search will take forever and they'll go to bed unhappy.
-
But I'm never gonna get to a point in my life where what it costs to shoot a movie is going to determine what it is. The limits of my imagination is the only thing that's gonna stop me.
-
I want to be like Robin Williams, really. It's all the different characters he does, all the different voices.
-
People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.
-
Seeing that we were book enthusiasts, my mother began hauling my sister and me down to the Stanton Free Library on Tuesday afternoons, where I'd find two or three books to bring home.
-
Next to the coming to a good understanding with a new mistress, I love a quarrel with an old one.
-
Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. I can work out a good character much faster than anyone can lie me out of it
-
If a woman's young and pretty, I think you can see her good looks all the better for her being plainly dressed.
-
It is good knowing that glasses are to drink from; the bad thing is not to know what thirst is for.
