Kevin Costner Quotes

I don't think I ever take huge risks, though I'm not scared of doing so.

Kevin Costner

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• The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.

  

  Edith Pearlman
  • World
  • Language
  • Natural

• 'FlashForward' was on the outs when I was approached with 'Happy Endings.' I literally got the script on a Friday, and on Saturday morning I met with David Caspe, Jamie Tarses, and the Russo brothers. I took the role on that Saturday, and on Monday I was doing a table read. It all happened very fast, but it was super exciting.

  

  Zachary Knighton
  • Happy
  • Morning
  • Doing

• After my primary school education, I started gathering little children by visiting parents to ask if they wanted somebody to care for their kids by teaching them the Bible. I have never attended any seminary school or Bible college in my life.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Life
  • Children
  • School

• The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Life
  • Time
  • Feeling

• I'm not a cheater, but if I win Olympic gold and people are looking at me and saying I am a cheat because I've won, it's hugely disrespectful given the hard work I've put in.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • People
  • Work
  • Win

• What we want to do is put a price on greenhouse gases. Because if they're more expensive, businesses will find a way to be more efficient or switch to solar or hydro or wind power. So that will reduce emissions.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Power
  • Wind
  • Price

• I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Music
  • Always
  • Dresses

• We cannot undo the past in this misguided war in Iraq.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • War
  • Past
  • Undo

• I'm always drawing, so Draw Something is a cool game to play against your friends when you're bored and sat chilling out and relaxing.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Friends
  • Game
  • Cool

• Certainly, a lot of the films I've worked on have ended up good movies, but they haven't always been the best experiences.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Up
  • Good
  • Best

• When I talk to CEOs, they're not educated about social media.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Media
  • Talk
  • Social Media

• I have no idea why a guy would bring a jar of peanut butter to a concert.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Why
  • Guy
  • Idea

• I stay away from the elf roles; I stay away from playing a leprechaun. All the roles I try to do are something that an average actor would do.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Try
  • Something
  • Average

• Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.

  

  Harper Lee
  • Children

• Congress is, after all, not a body of laymen unfamiliar with the commonplaces of our law. This legislation was the formulation of the two Judiciary Committees, all of whom are lawyers, and the Congress is predominately a lawyers' body.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Law

• I make a point of writing, if only a little, every day, as a kind of discipline so that it is not a whim but a piece of work.

  

  P. L. Travers
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Discipline

• There are no mute, inglorious Miltons, save in the hallucinations of poets. The one sound test of Milton is that he functions as a Milton.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Poets
  • Functions
  • Hallucinations

• 'You seem upset by the fact that we’re hated and feared.''It does give one pause for thought.'

  

  Alastair Reynolds

• Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dealer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Words
  • Thoughts
  • Fool

• I would love to do film someday, but I think we are all so happily in tune with 'Glee' that we are sticking with that right now.

  

  Kevin McHale

• I have no interest in being famous for the sake of being famous.

  

  Bryan Greenberg
  • Famous

• Let us all be happy, and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with.

  

  Charles Farrar Browne
  • Live
  • Money
  • Happy

• I don't think I ever take huge risks, though I'm not scared of doing so.

  

  Kevin Costner