Ben Dolnick Quotes

The patron saint of outlining - the bespectacled siren who sings to me from his spotless rock - is P. G. Wodehouse.

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• When I make a live-action movie, it's a very physical process. It's like running a marathon.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Live
  • Movie
  • Action

• I always say, keep a diary and someday it'll keep you.

  

  Mae West
  • You
  • Always
  • Diary

• Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Me
  • Hell
  • Shine

• We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.

  

  Gale Sayers
  • Stop
  • Building
  • Closing

• I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Times
  • Many
  • Performed

• Only four secretaries of defense served longer than Robert M. Gates. Many others were as dedicated; many sacrificed a great deal. Alone among them all, however, Mr. Gates had the task of turning around two wars that the U.S. was losing.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Great
  • Alone
  • Losing

• Fat noses have no place in the Hindi film industry. But it is not so in the West - otherwise, Anthony Quinn would have never been an actor.

  

  Om Puri
  • Never
  • Place
  • Fat

• A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.

  

  Barnabe Barnes
  • World
  • Man
  • Die

• In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Picture
  • Company
  • Wait

• I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Me
  • Name
  • Changed

• I like seeing advanced acrobatics, but I also like to see more than tumbling. It's important to combine the artistry of gymnastics with the tough skills. It's called artistic gymnastics. We should stand by the name.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Important
  • Name
  • Tough

• You are the music while the music lasts.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Music
  • You
  • Lasts

• There are many kids in and out of baseball who think that just because they have some natural talent, they have the world by the tail.

  

  Hack Wilson
  • World
  • Kids
  • Baseball

• Cipla has already developed a generic version, oseltamivir, which would be much cheaper than Tamiflu, the only available drug effective in treating avian flu.

  

  Yusuf Hamied
  • Drug
  • Available
  • Effective

• Im very nurturing.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Very
  • Nurturing

• It's nice to see a movie where people are actually succeeding.

  

  Illeana Douglas
  • People
  • Movie
  • Nice

• From an operational perspective, exports challenge companies to design, develop, manufacture and supply products to discerning customers in global markets. This, in turn, motivates companies to scale up the value chain, which results in higher realisations.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Up
  • Value
  • Challenge

• I am very much interested in getting parents to read to children, and trying to get people mentoring children. If I can do both I'll be happy.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • People
  • Children
  • Trying

• Gandhi wanted to meet with Churchill, his most bitter foe, when he visited London in 1931- but it didn't happen. Churchill wanted to go to India personally as prime minister in 1942 to negotiate a final settlement on India with Gandhi and the other nationalist leaders - but the fall of Singapore prevented it from happening.

  

  Arthur L. Herman
  • Fall
  • Bitter

• I've actually made a prediction that within 30 years a majority of new cars made in the United States will be electric. And I don't mean hybrid, I mean fully electric.

  

  Elon Musk

• Praise the Lord, O England's Jerusalem: and Netherland's Zion, praise ye the Lord! He hath secured your gates, and blessed your possessions with peace, even here, where the threatened torch of war was lighted.

  

  Peter Stuyvesant
  • War
  • Peace
  • Blessed

• I've always been one of those people – once I start something, I have to get it all out, because it gets me.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • People
  • Me
  • Always

• The patron saint of outlining - the bespectacled siren who sings to me from his spotless rock - is P. G. Wodehouse.

  

  Ben Dolnick
  • Rock