Eli Wallach Quotes

Well, I've maybe gotten 200 requests for interviews about Marilyn, and I just decided I'm gonna do my own.

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• I have crazy friends, so a lot of times when we're out, people recognize me on the street, but they will yell, 'This is Cameron Boyce!' and just run! They do that. Then I'm in the middle of the street with people looking at me.

  

  Cameron Boyce
  • People
  • Friends
  • Crazy

• You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Love
  • Parents
  • Learn

• Sexual dreams aren't usually about sex.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
  • Sex
  • Dreams
  • Sexual

• When I was 3, my parents strapped on a pair of Playskool plastic roller skates to my feet, and that's where the story begins.

  

  J. R. Celski
  • Parents
  • Story
  • Feet

• I think we are intrinsically prone to being irrational and superstitious. A lot of it comes from our fear of the unknown and the fear of a lack of control over our fate.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Fear
  • Control
  • Fate

• As a writer, Chris Columbus was a big influence. 'The Goonies' was the first movie I ever saw that kids speak normally and not imagined how kids would talk. Always a big fan of Chris Columbus' dialogue and storytelling.

  

  Adam Green
  • Kids
  • Movie
  • Speak

• The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Live
  • Education
  • Learning

• I don't have to lay on the couch and see a therapist because my therapist is in my paint brushes.

  

  Abbey Lincoln
  • See
  • Paint
  • Therapist

• The joke around my office is that I've shaken many hands, but I've petted more dogs.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Hands
  • Office
  • Dogs

• Unless someone truly has the power to say no, they never truly have the power to say yes.

  

  Dan Millman
  • Power
  • Never
  • Say

• People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • People
  • Hope
  • Wish

• It was, therefore, the sort of loveliness which is not perfect, but draws its charm from a measure of imbalance, which can accommodate flaws and make little of them, for a while at least.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Perfect

• Unendowed with wealth or pity, Little birds with scarlet legs Sitting on their speckled eggs, Eye each flu-infected city. Altogether elsewhere, vast Herds of reindeer move across Miles and miles of golden moss, Silently and very fast.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • City

• What rules the world is idea, because ideas define the way reality is perceived.

  

  Irving Kristol
  • World
  • Reality

• Although much remains obscure, and will long remain obscure, … I am convinced that Natural Selection has been the main but not exclusive means of modification.

  

  Charles Darwin
  • Long

• We go to battle against the plutocratic and reactionary democracies of the west… This gigantic struggle is nothing other than a phase in the logical development of our revolution; it is the struggle of peoples that are poor but rich in workers against the exploiters who hold on ferociously to the monopoly off all the riches and all the gold of the earth…

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • Earth
  • Struggle
  • Revolution

• Life is never stagnation. It is constant movement, unrhythmic movement, as we as constant change. Things live by moving and gain strength as they go.

  

  Bruce Lee
  • Life
  • Live
  • Moving

• Quien se queda mucho consigo mismo, se envilece.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• You're not a man, you're a machine.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Man
  • Machine

• When you see fair hair Be pitiful.

  

  George Eliot
  • Pitiful
  • Fair Hair

• Now I'm seen by more people in one episode than I was in 20 years of theatre and movies. It's gratifying to have an impact on 25 million people a night, but I can say goodbye to my lunch-pail life as a working actor. I'm scared I might be a celebrity.

  

  William Petersen
  • People
  • Night
  • Theatre

• Feckless as it was for Bush to ask Americans to go shopping after 9/11, we all too enthusiastically followed his lead, whether we were wealthy, working-class or in between. We spent a decade feasting on easy money, don't-pay-as-you-go consumerism and a metastasizing celebrity culture.

  

  Frank Rich
  • Money
  • Culture
  • Celebrity

• As the nation-state has monopolized habeas corpus … on balance we have far more people in prison, federal and state, than ever.

  

  Anthony Gregory
  • Prison
  • Monopolized
  • Habeas Corpus

• Well, I've maybe gotten 200 requests for interviews about Marilyn, and I just decided I'm gonna do my own.

  

  Eli Wallach