Colin Firth Quotes

They're not bombarding me with offers, although the ones that have come along have been too preposterous to contemplate, so it's not as if I spend every day resisting $20 million pay cheques.

Colin Firth

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• Music is all about leadership and there ain't really a lot of leaders.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Music
  • Leadership
  • Leaders

• I had lost faith in biography.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Faith
  • Lost
  • Biography

• Radio stinks. The stations are making a lot of money, but they just aren't taking chances.

  

  Irving Azoff
  • Money
  • Radio
  • Chances

• If the search engines don't respect the creators, there won't be anything to search in the future because creators have to make a living too.

  

  Patricia Schroeder
  • Future
  • Respect
  • Search

• The most sought-after candidates in the world today by companies like mine are people who make computer software - there's a shortage of talent.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • People
  • World
  • Today

• When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • You
  • Wisdom
  • Yourself

• Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • Science
  • Magic
  • Sufficiently

• That's the great thing about incubating something on the web: you have the potential to go to other platforms. Every single platform has a different audience that you find.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Great
  • Different
  • Single

• Lets talk about the holidays, more specifically, consumption during the holidays. If it's true that 'We are what we eat,' most of us would be unrecognizable during the period that ranges from the night before Thanksgiving through that day in early January when everyone decides to return to the gym.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • True
  • Night
  • Day

• I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • People
  • Up
  • Long

• When I'm training a dog, I develop a relationship with that dog. He's my buddy, and I want to make training fun.

  

  Ian Dunbar
  • Fun
  • Relationship
  • Training

• I have no favourite genre or style but treat each novel with the same care, imagination and craftsmanship. It's as difficult to write a crime or a children's novel with a touch of style and grace as it is a literary novel.

  

  Garry Disher
  • Children
  • Style
  • Imagination

• I just love the feeling a close family gives you and I wouldn't change it for anything.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Family
  • Feeling
  • Change

• I've heard directing talked about as being a benign dictatorship, and I think that's probably the best way a director should be. They're open to collaboration and feedback from people, but ultimately, it's got to be that one person's vision. That's what I think makes a film really stand out.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • People
  • Best
  • Vision

• I always go home to Buffalo in the offseason. I really enjoy my home town.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Home
  • Enjoy
  • Go

• Of all forms of symbolism, language is the most highly developed, most subtle, and most complicated. It has been pointed out that human beings, by agreement, can make anything stand for anything. Now, human beings have agreed, in the course of centuries of mutual dependency, to let the various noises that they can produce

  

  S. I. Hayakawa

• But it don't bother me. I never yet saw anybody hit the baseball with their face. Besides, I like to get kidded; that means they like me. When they stop kidding me, I'm in trouble.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Stop
  • Baseball

• We knew that by closing the Gulf of Aqaba it might mean war with Israel. If war comes it will be total and the objective will be to destroy Israel.

  

  Gamal Abdel Nasser
  • War

• So long as men hold the tribal notion that the individual is sacrificial fodder for the collective, that some men have the right to rule others by force, and that some (any) alleged 'good' can justify It - there can be no peace ‘within’ a nation and no peace among nations.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Good
  • Men
  • Long

• We all have a weakness for beauty.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Beauty
  • Weakness

• Without trying, I'm different.

  

  Paul Wellstone
  • Different
  • Trying

• In America the chief accusation seems to be one of "Eroticism." This is odd, rather puzzling to my mind. Which Eros? Eros of the jaunty "amours," or Eros of the sacred mysteries? And if the latter, why accuse, why not respect, even venerate?

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Mind
  • Respect
  • Accusation

• All difficulties are easy when they are known.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Knowledge
  • Easy
  • Known

• They're not bombarding me with offers, although the ones that have come along have been too preposterous to contemplate, so it's not as if I spend every day resisting $20 million pay cheques.

  

  Colin Firth