Ossie Davis Quotes

One of the things I appreciate more was how important struggle was as the instrument that helped to keep us knit together.

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• Let's judge a man on what he's done.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Done
  • Man
  • Judge

• I've done a lot of drama, and comedy was the one genre I was not being offered. So I became obsessive about getting one.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Done
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Know
  • Sometimes
  • Fabulous

• Me writing about tennis is like a baker baking bread.

  

  Ion Tiriac
  • Writing
  • Tennis
  • Bread

• Language as a communication tool is the primary element from which literature is created. Even in pre-literate societies, it exists as songs, riddles, or epics that are chanted.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Language
  • Literature
  • Communication

• A lot of what gets on the radio isn't saying anything other than somebody wants to be famous and will do whatever they're told to get it.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Famous
  • Saying
  • Radio

• We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Law
  • Grace
  • Quick

• When the British became Christian, Christianity in no way altered their political organisation.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Political
  • Way
  • Christian

• I think going from doing TV and straight plays to Shakespeare is weird enough because you have this heightened language, and you are telling a story through metric poetry. But I think music is that place beyond poetry.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Music
  • Poetry
  • Language

• I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Amazing

• My dad's name is Vernon and my mom liked the initials, V. V. My sisters and I got named Victoria, Valerie and Vincent so we'd be V. V.'s, too. But, then when you start getting pets' names that start with a 'v,' it's a little embarrassing.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • Start

• Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Up
  • Work
  • Long

• 'Jaws' was the definitive filmmaking turning point for me. It came out in the summer of '75 and I saw it an obsessive 55 times. They even ran a very embarrassing article about me in the local paper, about the weird kid who's seen 'Jaws' 55 times.

  

  Victor Salva
  • Summer
  • Kid
  • Point

• My co-founder Dylan Smith and I left our junior year of college to move to the Bay Area. To the horror of our friends' parents, we actually had two other friends drop out of college to work on the product. The four of us were just working non-stop growing Box.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • Work
  • Friends
  • Parents

• I'm such a carnivorous researcher as an actor - I chew it up like it's meat, and I really don't know how to do that without the people that are producing or creating or writing that which they want me to chew up.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • People
  • Up
  • Writing

• I've been taking batting practice in my barn where nobody can see me, so I may be better than anyone thinks.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Practice
  • Better
  • See

• I wasn't tempted to go into academia for a second.

  

  Frances O'Connor
  • Go
  • Second
  • Academia

• I am grateful to theatre for making me what I am today. But it's not like theatre is my first love. I am equally attached to cinema, which is, actually, a child of theatre, since it borrows heavily from it.

  

  Om Puri
  • Child
  • Theatre
  • Grateful

• You mean the fact that Tom Arnold would spend more time with the hair and makeup people than I would?

  

  Lisa Guerrero
  • People
  • Time
  • Hair

• My three Ps: passion, patience, perseverance. You have to do this if you've got to be a filmmaker.

  

  Robert Wise
  • Patience
  • Perseverance
  • Filmmaker

• The thing I enjoy about going fast is the risk-reward scenario you get. If you make good decisions, the benefits are amazing. If you get it wrong, you can lose so much.

  

  Nathan Outteridge
  • Good
  • Amazing
  • Risk

• The commonest and cheapest sounds, as the barking of a dog, produce the same effect on fresh and healthy ears that the rarest music does. It depends on your appetite for sound. Just as a crust is sweeter to a healthy appetite than confectionery to a pampered or diseased one.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Music
  • Dog

• A true Educator locates the intelligence and abilities within another, drawing them out for all, even the student, to see. And then steps out of the way, allowing them to develop, create and pursue their talent.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • True
  • Way
  • Drawing

• One of the things I appreciate more was how important struggle was as the instrument that helped to keep us knit together.

  

  Ossie Davis
  • Important
  • Things
  • Struggle