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

• Us three brothers - me, Janis, and Martins - we made a bet. We all sat down and said we were going to grow our hair out. But after a month or two, they cut their hair. But I was too young to make the decision about whether I would get a haircut, so mine just kept growing. And it was so long that I decided I should start rocking those cornrows.

  

  Kristaps Porzingis
  • Long
  • Growing
  • Decision

• It's definitely a little bit ironic being known for my hair because, as a little girl, I had no idea what I was doing with it. I was insecure about it. I didn't have as many references to curly girls, and I wanted to just fit in with all my other friends.

  

  Jillian Hervey
  • Friends
  • Girl
  • Hair

• The Fourth Amendment is on life support and the chief agent of that is the National Security Agency.

  

  Nat Hentoff
  • Support
  • Amendment
  • National Security Agency

• ...nothing good can proceed from our will until it be formed again, and that after it is formed again in so far as it is good, it is of God, and not of us.

  

  John Calvin
  • Good
  • God

• Look at their eyes. If their eyes are shining, you know you're doing it.

  

  Benjamin Zander
  • Eyes
  • Look
  • Shining

• 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