Antony Sher Quotes

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• Arthur Conan Doyle was entranced by the notion of a brilliant detective who can deduce everything a stranger has been up to from the merest clue, and yet can't have a trusting relationship with his closest friend.

  

  Rafael Yglesias
  • Up
  • Relationship
  • Friend

• I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have.

  

  Kate Moss
  • School
  • Lost
  • Kind

• 'Cold Case Files' and similar shows do bang up business, which points to a certain thirst for details in the viewership, but it seems like all the news chat shows continue to force the myth that Americans can't stand detail and have no interest in an idea that can't fit on a bumper sticker.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Up
  • Business
  • Cold

• As someone who has had cancer, I learned that you don't have to die. Look at me. Because of early detection, I'm fine. I'm cured. I'm well.

  

  Kate Jackson
  • Die
  • Cancer
  • Fine

• A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • People
  • Innovation
  • Selfish

• I thought I would be Sheena of the Jungle as a little girl.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Girl
  • Thought
  • Jungle

• In the John Paul II days, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger had the advantage of staying in his cupboard - the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith - exchanging views only with the Pope, and speaking publicly only through carefully written missives on doctrinal issues.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • Faith
  • Through
  • Cardinal

• Congress needs to toughen the laws protecting elections and make clear that anyone interfering with democracy will pay a stiff price.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Democracy
  • Laws
  • Elections

• On the battlefield, the military pledges to leave no soldier behind. As a nation, let it be our pledge that when they return home, we leave no veteran behind.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • Home
  • Military
  • Soldier

• I have my own definition of minimalism, which is that which is created with a minimum of means.

  

  La Monte Young
  • Own
  • My Own
  • Min­i­mal­ism

• My view is the core engine supporting India's growth aspiration will be the financial sector, which will have to get more efficient.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Growth
  • Financial
  • View

• I'm not a big lingerie girl. I see it, and I love it, and I appreciate it, and sometimes I even buy it, and then it never gets worn. It just seems like kind of a wasted middle step. Either you're dressed or you're not. What is this in-between stuff?

  

  Natalie Zea
  • Kind
  • Like
  • Appreciate

• Markets as well as mobs respond to human emotions; markets as well as mobs can be inflamed to their own destruction.

  

  Owen D. Young
  • Human
  • Emotions
  • Destruction

• A great leader also has the ability to make people an inch taller in his presence.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • People
  • Great
  • Leader

• A mistake is not something to be determined after the fact, but in the light of the information until that point.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Light
  • Mistake

• Wie die Senatoren der Römer sind die wahren Künstler ein Volk von Königen.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Die

• So I go to the long adventure, lifting My face to the far, mysterious goals, To the last assize, to the final sifting Of gods and stars and souls.

  

  Edwin Markham
  • Long
  • Goals
  • Adventure

• In front of us was not a line but a fortress position, twenty miles deep, entrenched and fortified, defended by masses of machine-gun posts and thousands of guns in a wide arc. No chance for cavalry!

  

  Philip Gibbs
  • Deep
  • Gun

• When taxpayers are subsidizing low wages, people should be aware of that. We're subsidizing an economy. We're not subsidizing people. They are doing a hard day's work. When we're not rewarding work actively, there's something wrong with the system.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • People
  • Work
  • Day

• And what we called photojournalism, the photos seen in places like Life magazine, didn't interest me either. They were just not good-there was no art there. The first person who I respected immensely was Henri Cartier-Bresson. I still do.

  

  William Eggleston
  • Art
  • Interest
  • Firsts

• Golf is growing, and there are more good young players, but you don't see them going abroad. It's so expensive to travel.

  

  Retief Goosen
  • Growing
  • Player
  • Expensive

• When rock came in, I wasn't bitter about it. I was puzzled.

  

  Jo Stafford
  • Rock
  • Bitter

• Perhaps one reason for the falling-off of belief in a continuance of conscious existence is to be found in the quality of life that most of us lead. There is not much in it with which, in any kind of reason, one can associate the idea of immortality.

  

  Albert J. Nock
  • Life
  • Quality

• You don't expect to get the letter saying, Her Majesty would like to appoint you Knight Commander of the British Empire! It was just a completely overwhelming and exciting day.

  Antony Sher