Ben Gazzara Quotes

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• A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Never
  • Roots
  • Filmmaker

• What nourishes us at home and in school is what inspires us. When we get awareness and learn about the great potential that we all human beings have, we are able to discover our leadership.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Great
  • School
  • Home

• I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • House
  • Living
  • Loved

• Brussels sprouts are really quite versatile.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Quite
  • Versatile
  • Brussels

• A lot of the time, you see something really beautiful, but if you don't have the perfect figure and are a really small size, it won't work well for you.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Time
  • Work
  • Beautiful

• Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Writing
  • Night
  • Driving

• Theocratic and military authorities share one thing: they have no sense of humour.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • Military
  • Share
  • One Thing

• How can there be so many mothers in the world but so little sense of what it might be to become one?

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • World
  • Sense
  • Mother`s

• A 'farm' today means 100,000 chickens in a space the size of a Motel 6 shower stall.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Today
  • Space
  • Farm

• I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Believe
  • Real
  • Man

• It is quite hard to relax in London. I always say I'd move somewhere quieter, but I am a bit of a confirmed urbanite now - it crept up on me without me noticing. I always think that I function quite well on my own, unusually so, but then I'm reminded how important people are to me.

  

  Laura Marling
  • People
  • Important
  • Relax

• A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Mind
  • Passion

• Usually my writing is very over the top and bombastic and very, like, 'I'm amazing! Look at me!'

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Writing
  • Amazing
  • Usually

• To be honest, I haven't had a lot of time off.

  

  Nancy O'Dell
  • Time
  • Honest
  • Off

• I suppose this was really the moment for embarking upon an impassioned defence of Boko, stressing his admirable qualities. Not being able to think of any, however, I remained silent.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse

• I know you're all saying I can go to the moon but I can't find Pasadena.

  

  Alan Shepard
  • Moon

• Il est à peu près impossible de constituer systématiquement une morale naturelle. La nature n'a pas de principes. Elle ne nous fournit aucune raison de croire que la vie humaine est respectable. La nature, indifférente, ne fait nulle distinction du bien et du mal.

  

  Anatole France
  • Nature

• I'd love to have children, and I think marriage is great, I really do.

  

  Jennifer Jason Leigh
  • Great
  • Children
  • Marriage

• Have passion, yes, but acknowledge that side projects are still work. They shake things up, just like switching up your workout helps you stay one step ahead of your torpid metabolism. They scramble the synapses.

  

  Mary H.K. Choi
  • Up
  • Work
  • Passion

• When you break out the acoustic guitar, the words are the focal point unless you're the Jimi Hendrix of the acoustic guitar. So the words have to have meaning.

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • Words

• There was but one thing for him;- to persevere till he got her, or till he had finally lost her. And should the latter be his fate, as he began to fear that it would be, then, he would live, but live only, like a crippled man.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Fear
  • Lost
  • Fate

• I was going to get drafted, but I didn't really want to go into the Army.

  

  Rick James
  • Army

• Learning the lessons of the past allows you to walk boldly in the light without running the risk of stumbling in the darkness. This is the way it's supposed to work. This is God's plan: father and mother, grandfather and grandmother teaching their children; children learning from them and then becoming a more righteous generation through their own personal experiences and opportunities. Learning the lessons of the past allows you to build personal testimony on a solid bedrock of obedience, faith, and the witness of the Spirit.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • Work
  • God
  • Children

• I love awards, especially if I get them.

  

  Ben Gazzara