Colin Farrell Quotes

Magic is at the core of myths.

Colin Farrell

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• I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.

  

  Katharine Cornell
  • Amazing
  • Woman
  • Performances

• Each person is living for himself; his own happiness is all he can ever personally feel.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Happiness
  • Feel
  • Living

• There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Wants
  • Mud
  • Soar

• One thing I've tried to never do is make wish lists. I try to have a very steppingstone mentality about this whole thing, where as soon as you make one step you visualize the next step, not five steps ahead.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Wish
  • Try
  • Step

• As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.

  

  Kajol
  • Work
  • You
  • Expectations

• The three main sources of scepticism are first, that not every people desires freedom; second, that democracy in certain parts of the world would be dangerous; and third, that there is little the world's democracies can do to advance freedom outside their countries.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • People
  • World
  • Freedom

• I have a farm and I love it there. There's really nothing to do, but even watching the chickens, its fun.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Love
  • Fun
  • Farm

• All of a sudden, if you think about the entire ecosystem of connected devices that can pull down information, access content and allow me to share and work and communicate, the vast majority now are not Windows computers. They are iPhones. They are iPads. They are Android devices.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • Work
  • Information
  • Computers

• Society is so divided in its perception of public school people. Most people who went to public school behave in the right way, but every now and then there will be someone who comes along and ruins it.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • People
  • School
  • Society

• Twitter is an astounding platform for information, but it's a total blank slate - which means it's an astounding platform for disinformation, too.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Information
  • Twitter
  • Blank

• At the end of the day, the government, local government all bow to public pressure.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Day
  • Government
  • End

• The most fun you can possibly have as an actor is to walk that line between what's real and what's interesting.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Real
  • Fun
  • Interesting

• I don't think tennis is a glamour game, not at all.

  

  Mahesh Bhupathi
  • Think
  • Game
  • Tennis

• On Monday I come in and get in a full body workout, and then I come back in on Wednesday and do a quick six, which consists of bench press, biceps and triceps curls, pull downs, something for the back and the neck. And then you come back and hit it again on Friday with a 16-machine workout.

  

  LaMarr Woodley
  • Body
  • Workout
  • Friday

• I would like to go down as the greatest receiver in this game. I'm not doing all this hard work for nothing.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Work
  • Game
  • Hard Work

• After karting in Venezuela, I came to Europe in 1998 to compete in international kart races, which was great for me to get experience racing outside my country. After consistently being at the top, I decided to move to Italian Formula Renault.

  

  Pastor Maldonado
  • Country
  • Experience
  • Italian

• I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment.

  

  Zara Phillips
  • Kids
  • Moment
  • Have

• Cleveland gets crapped on a lot.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Lot
  • Gets
  • Cleveland

• To be interested in short stories, you have to be interested in fiction as an art form.

  

  Deborah Eisenberg
  • Art

• Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That's a story. Handled properly, it's more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Mother
  • House
  • Night

• My interest was magic, believe it or not. I became an amateur magician and did something like 400 magic shows through my teen years.

  

  David Pogue
  • Believe
  • Magic
  • Teen

• I always liked the magic of poetry but now I'm just starting to see behind the curtain of even the best poets, how they've used, tried and tested craft to create the illusion. Wonderful feeling of exhilaration to finally be there.

  

  David Knopfler Dire Straits
  • Feeling
  • Poetry
  • Magic

• The master said, 'Quietly to store up knowledge in my mind, to learn without flagging, to teach without growing weary, these present me with no difficulties.'

  

  Confucius
  • Knowledge
  • Master
  • My Mind

• Magic is at the core of myths.

  

  Colin Farrell
  • Magic
  • Core
  • Myths