Arthur Symons Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
In tennis, because of the way it's scored, I don't think that scoring one point out of luck is ever decisive in winning. But, of course, it depends on the moment.
-
I cannot go to Montreal without going to Beauty's, my favorite place for breakfast, where I have the Mish-Mash omelet with hot dogs, salami, eggs, green peppers, and onions, and the best banana bread in the world. It's legendary!
-
The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
-
Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
-
I love going to concerts, so that whole environment is something that intrigues me anyway.
-
I don't think you should exploit your own pain.
-
My hands, my feet, I throw my whole body to say all that is within me.
-
I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
-
I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
-
I don't study cricket too much. Whatever I have learned or experienced is through cricket I've played on the field, and whatever little I have watched.
-
For a startup, you need to stay small so the others don't attack, or you aim to be one of the big guys. If you don't do it right, you might lose everything.
-
The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.
-
In Washington, the translation of E Pluribus Unum has been lost. The belief that we are one nation - united in purpose - caring about and for one another is no longer the practice.
-
I was chosen for 'Wolverine' because there weren't any other Japanese actresses available who could speak English. With 'Batman v Superman' and 'Hannibal,' I got the roles as a result of previous work I'd done, not just because of my nationality.
-
Poetry is that sentiment of the soul, or faculty of the mind, which enables its possessor to appreciate and realize the heights and depths of human experience. It is the power to feel pleasure or suffer pain in all its exquisiteness and intensity.
-
I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
-
She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
-
I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home.
-
I try not to violate what came before me and to leave lots of wiggle room for those who will follow.
-
Courage is on display every day, and only the courageous wring the most out of life.
-
I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.
-
My view of democratic socialism builds on the success of many other countries around the world that have done a far better job than we have in protecting the needs of their working families, their elderly citizens, the children, the sick and the poor.
-
You can write anything you want on paper, like blowing up the bridge on the River Kwai, but when you actually have to do that as a director, it's not the same. Ninety percent of directing is not creative - it's putting the theoretical into the practical world.
-
The mystic too full of God to speak intelligibly to the world.
