Cressida Bonas Quotes
I think as you get older, you find out more and more about yourself and what you like and what you don't like.
Quotes to Explore
-
I liked painting and drawing, and I liked humanities mainly - poetry, literature - this speculative attitude toward life.
-
Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some.
-
I did not have a father. It was my mom who chose to be alone. She felt that she would be better off by herself with me after I was born.
-
Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect.
-
For an artist, a good place to be is you have some kind of influence and power to get things done, but in your essence you remain a nomad or a soldier facing a difficulty to be overcome.
-
I never forget my old days and I never fly too high I have my feet fixed firmly on the ground!
-
That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.
-
It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam.
-
Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.
-
There's nothing wrong with being fired.
-
As a producer, sitting on the other side of the desk, I have never once had an agent go out on a limb for his client and fight for him. I've never heard one say, 'No, just a minute! This is the actor you should use.' They will always say, 'You don't like him? I've got somebody else.' They're totally spineless.
-
To me, 'rock star' conjures up something like a mystic: someone who sees himself as above other people, someone who has the key to the secret that people want to know.
-
Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
-
When I was 12, I went to boarding school, where I discovered the computer, which meant I no longer had to write something down and get someone to play it, I could just type it into the computer and hear it back.
-
Giving shape to a painful experience is powerful because it helps us to see, first, how we got through it; second, how we can share it. The experience doesn't stay trapped within us, unspoken, curdling - instead, the art of arranging and transforming it reduces the burden. It no longer belongs to only you.
-
The bird stabs the worm, the big cat breaks the bird’s neck, the man casts his spear into the heart of the cat. That is how the world is. Even the man had better look behind him; the wolf may be near, or another man, or fate, the hungriest hunter of them all.
-
It is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.
-
Poetry is no more, no less than a mosaic of words, so great exactness is required for each one.
-
Writing, I crushed an insect with my nail And thought nothing at all. A bit of wing Caught my eye then, a gossamer so frail And exquisite, I saw in it a thing That scorned the grossness of the thing I wrote. It hung upon my finger like a sting.
-
My grandad's a gospel singer, and his children were singers, too. But I don't believe in God in the same way... not religion; it breaks us up too much. The same with musical styles - it breaks people up. I believe they are all one thing - why not put them together?
-
I've always been a writer. I've always done writing or spoken-word, hip-hop stuff with my friends.
-
With bikes, it is absolutely the case that you will get what you pay for. Invest in quality so it will endure wear and tear.
-
The poor prayed to become rich, and the rich prayed to become richer.
-
I think as you get older, you find out more and more about yourself and what you like and what you don't like.
