Colin Firth Quotes

As much as the next person, I want to be approved of, but I'm not greedy for that stuff.

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• I collect handkerchiefs. I know that's sort of old-timey, but my mom started the collection for me, and now I have a bunch. Basically, I have a myriad of beautiful handkerchiefs, and I carry them like a grandmother in my purse. And I opt for hankies in any situation.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Beautiful
  • Mom
  • Grandmother

• When people use their hurt and make a triumph in their song, that helps other people.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • People
  • Song
  • Hurt

• I'm just happy to be doing a job that I love.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Love
  • Job
  • Happy

• Micropayments are great if you use them for a product or service with certain properties. It must be one where you can get away with usage-based pricing, and where there is a strong rationale for making it cheap, yet not free.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Great
  • Free
  • Strong

• My ideas are always better. We have an understanding in place.

  

  Lana Wachowski
  • Understanding
  • Ideas
  • Better

• I'm a Reuben kinda girl, but I'll take a BLT with avocado in a red hot minute if it comes on ciabatta.

  

  Gail Carriger
  • Girl
  • Red
  • Hot

• Places seem to me to have some kind of memory, in that they activate memory in those who look at them.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Look
  • Memory
  • Activate

• Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Important
  • Funny
  • Food

• I have the kind of personality that I always look ahead than look at what's happened. It does help a lot, especially when you've done badly or you've failed. It's instinctive of me that I look at what's next, I look ahead a lot, and start preparing for that, in victory and in defeat.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Done
  • Help
  • Personality

• I'm very happy with the response for everything I've done, but, you know, sometimes you get things like, 'Oh, 'Spaced' Series One wasn't as good as 'Spaced' Series Two.' Or 'Shaun of the Dead' is not as good as 'Spaced,' or, 'Hot Fuzz' is not as good as 'Shaun.' Or, now, 'The World's End' is not 'Shaun of the Dead.'

  

  Edgar Wright
  • World
  • Good
  • Done

• Here's the thing about Apple technology: once you own a piece, you want to use it.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • Want
  • Technology
  • Apple

• Why, if someone is good in one field can they not be accepted or given the slightest opportunity to express and be creative in other fields?

  

  Kanye West
  • Good
  • Why
  • Opportunity

• My second novel began after my family moved from New York City to North Carolina, and I watched my son walk into kindergarten at a school in which he was the only Jewish child out of 600 students - and this in the middle of the Bible Belt.

  

  Karen Bender
  • Family
  • School
  • City

• The obsession required to see a feature through from concept to release is not a rational thing to do with your brief time on this planet. Nor is it something to which an intelligent person should aspire.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • Time
  • Intelligent
  • Obsession

• All love is vanquished by a succeeding love.

  

  Ovid
  • Love
  • For Her
  • For Him

• The endearing elegance of female friendship.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Friendship

• I finally broke into the prison I found my place in the chain Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows

  

  Leonard Cohen

• One shall be born from small beginnings which will rapidly become vast. This will respect no created thing, rather will it, by its power, transform almost every thing from its own nature into another.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Power
  • Nature
  • Small

• I got a journalism degree. I started doing journalism - I interned at 'Cosmopolitan' magazine in the 1970s, which probably wasn't the best place for me, and I spent six or nine months freelancing. Anyway, I wasn't that good at it.

  

  Anne M. Mulcahy
  • Good

• The sea, the majestic sea, breaks everything, crushes everything, cleans everything, takes everything...from me

  

  Corinne Bailey Rae
  • Sea
  • Break
  • Crush

• Retire for what? What would I do? I made my name as a person that is helping. I'm like Moses in the music business.

  

  James Brown
  • Music
  • Business
  • Helping

• Gonpo Tso was born a princess. As a young woman, she dressed in fur-trimmed robes with fat ropes of coral beads strung around her neck. She lived in an adobe castle on the edge of the Tibetan plateau with a reception room large enough to accommodate the thousand Buddhist monks who once paid tribute to her father.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • She
  • Father
  • Woman

• Songs aren't owned by anyone.

  

  Daniel Quine Auerbach The Arcs
  • Songs
  • Anyone

• As much as the next person, I want to be approved of, but I'm not greedy for that stuff.

  

  Colin Firth