Benjamin Cardozo Quotes
The great generalities of the constitution have a content and a significance that vary from age to age.
Quotes to Explore
-
There's guys like me who aren't going to the theater, so distributors are leaving money on the table.
-
When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.
-
Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane.
-
We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
-
We think of the revolution ending in Yorktown, Va. The fact of the matter is that the French defeated the British in a naval battle right in the mouth of Chesapeake Bay. Because the British fleet was coming to rescue Cornwallis, the British general, Washington was able to surround Cornwallis.
-
In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
-
Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn't seated in the confines of your home.
-
You can find dozens of books about people taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad. I knew I had to do something different to cross Siberia. To drive and to talk with people along the way, that was how I wrote my book 'Great Plains'. I drove and camped in Siberia, but did not have a real program.
-
The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
-
Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
-
English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
-
It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.
-
The path that went by the little house had become a road. Almost every day Laura and Mary stopped their playing and stared in surprise at a wagon slowly creaking by on that road.
-
If you have a great-sounding guitar that's a quality instrument and a good amp, and you know how to make the guitar talk, that's the key. It starts with the guitar and knowing what it should sound and feel like.
-
The CW is a very fashion-oriented network and they like their stars to look a certain way. I like that, but at the same time, I need Nikita to be toned down a bit. You can't draw too much attention to Nikita because she's an assassin.
-
Academic institutions in Britain have been infiltrated for years by dangerous theocratic fantasists. I should know: I was one of them.
-
My family is weird in a very good way because I was always exposed to the arts.
-
It was a deliberate decision to act in family entertainers like 'Govindudu Andari Vadele' and 'Bruce Lee.'
-
We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.
-
I don't think it's really good once you've lost an election to sit around, watch your former opponent, and swipe at them.
-
Traveling is seeing; it is the implicit that we travel by.
-
I love movies that make me cry, because they're tapping into a real emotion in me, and I always think afterwards: how did they do that?
-
I was watching Orson Welles and Jean Vigo films at a ridiculously young age.
-
The great generalities of the constitution have a content and a significance that vary from age to age.
