Craig Brown Quotes

Just as there is something about an empty skip that makes you want to fill it, so there is something about a full skip that makes you want to empty it.

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• I really feel that the best actors out there are very centric. They're really connected. They're not in a, 'What about me' state, and I think that's a good lesson in life.

  

  Cameron Mathison
  • Life
  • Good
  • Best

• I studied engineering in the national university, the Universidad Autonoma, in San Ildefonso. There is art everywhere, murals on the walls. It's beautiful.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Art
  • Beautiful
  • Engineering

• It's always good news when you're closer to the truth.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Good
  • Truth
  • News

• Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Men
  • Doubt
  • Wise

• Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Criticism
  • Made
  • Prejudice

• I have to give importance to my personal life, my family, parents, and sisters. I hope I can strike the right balance.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Life
  • Family
  • Hope

• Artie said it would be nice if we got married. I said it would be nice, too. The next thing I knew, we were on our way to Las Vegas.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Nice
  • Said
  • Vegas

• It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • People
  • Great
  • Believe

• Thought makes reality.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Reality
  • Thought
  • Makes

• I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat.

  

  E. B. White
  • Thought
  • Cat
  • First Amendment

• Do more than you are being paid to do, and you'll eventually be paid more for what you do.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • You
  • Being
  • More

• There's a certain time of day after sunset when people naturally seem to feel the urge to gather by a fire or a stove or a hibachi or another common source of heat and food, and hunker down together to eat and drink. Call it the blue hour.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • People
  • Time
  • Together

• The Proclamation does not, indeed, mark out exactly the course I should myself prefer. But I am ready to take it just as it is written, and to stand by it with all my heart.

  

  Salmon P. Chase
  • Heart
  • Course
  • Proclamation

• All my friends from my past would know me as Scott Diggs. Taye Diggs comes from Scott-taye. When I went to college I liked it because it was so different and I have an infatuation with nicknames.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Friends
  • Know
  • College

• People send me fanmail in the post, and I keep every letter, and I always say I will read every single one. It might take me years and years, but I'll do it. Your audience are what makes you, so you have give as much back as you can.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • People
  • You
  • Me

• I wore a thong and a bra and a wig. Those things hurt. I mean, thongs? Like, they dig in. It takes a tough man to be a woman.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Hurt

• Genocide is an attempt to exterminate a people, not to alter their behavior.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • People
  • Behavior
  • Genocide

• 'Some,' answered Imlac, 'have indeed said that the soul is material, but I can scarcely believe that any man has thought it, who knew how to think; for all the conclusions of reason enforce the immateriality of mind, and all the notices of sense and investigations of science, concur to prove the unconsciousness of matter.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • Soul

• Vietnam is about halfway around the world from Washington. It's as large as the major European nations, with nearly 130,000 square miles... Its ancient recorded history goes back to 111 B.C... We entered (that country) with considerable ignorance.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • World
  • Country
  • History

• A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Done

• O fleeting joys Of Paradise, dear bought with lasting woes!

  

  John Milton
  • Paradise
  • Joys
  • Fleeting

• In Los Angeles all the loose objects in the country were collected, as if America had been tilted and everything that wasn't tightly screwed down had slid into Southern California.

  

  Saul Bellow
  • Country
  • America

• I feel that if you really want an Oscar, you're in trouble. It's like wanting to be married - you'll take anybody. If you want the Oscar really badly, it becomes a naked desire and ambition. It becomes very unattractive.

  

  Bill Murray
  • Desire
  • Ambition

• Just as there is something about an empty skip that makes you want to fill it, so there is something about a full skip that makes you want to empty it.

  

  Craig Brown