Cole Porter Quotes

So kiss me Kate, Thou lovely loon, E'er we start on our honeymoon. Oh, kiss me, Kate, Darling devil divine, For now thou shall ever be mine.

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• Cooking is like music: you can tell when someone puts love into it. I come from a place where there was so much attention to detail. The population is smaller in the South, so more attention is given to serving smaller numbers of people.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • Music
  • Attention
  • Like

• Inequality of women concerns both India and France, though it might have different manifestations in both the countries.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Different
  • Women
  • France

• I hate competition.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Hate
  • Competition

• I am always worried that over-planning and outlining will kill the magic of writing; most of the world I created in 'California' occurred via good old sexy sentence-making.

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • World
  • Good
  • Writing

• Data allow your political judgments to be based on fact, to the extent that numbers describe realities.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • Political
  • Numbers
  • Data

• There would be nights when I would wake up and couldn't get back to sleep. So I would go downstairs and write. The staff had a pool going on how many pages of typing I would bring in here in the morning.

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Sleep

• Mine has been a concern for the people, a concern to maintain stability, a concern to get people working together racially, ethnically, rich and poor - all segments of the city.

  

  Walter Washington
  • People
  • Together
  • City

• In a vague way, I always knew neurosurgery was different - more delicate, more difficult, more demanding. After all, we say things like, 'I'm no brain surgeon,' for a reason.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Different
  • Always
  • Brain

• I love musicals; I love the ballet, opera, the circus. It's all performance to me.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Performance
  • Ballet
  • Opera

• The imperative is to define what is right and do it.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • Right
  • Define
  • Imperative

• I've started getting acclimated to writing on the road and on the spot. I just let whatever I feel at the time come out, instead of really sitting there and taking days to write just one song.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Song

• Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Virtue
  • Patriotism
  • Vicious

• When I first came to Hollywood, I could not break into movies.

  

  Fionnula Flanagan
  • Movies
  • First
  • Hollywood

• Karl Malden was quite a mentor. He taught me things he had learned from being in front of a camera so long.

  

  Gary Cole
  • Long
  • Me
  • Camera

• My doctors warned me repeatedly that if you don't stay positive, you don't do well.

  

  Vince Flynn
  • You
  • Me
  • Positive

• Could we forbear dispute, and practise love, We should agree as angels do above.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Love
  • Angels
  • Dispute

• Indecision is a virus that can run through an army and destroy its will to win or even to survive.

  

  Wendell Mayes
  • Win
  • Army
  • Run

• I watched a lot of television as a kid, and the suburbs to me - that was exotic! Like, a mom and dad who lived in the same house and had jobs and cooked breakfast at the same time every morning and did laundry in a washing machine and dryer? That was like, 'Woah! Who are they? How do you get to be like that?'

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Time
  • House
  • Dad

• The evening wind made such a disturbance just now, among some tall old elm-trees at the bottom of the garden, that neither my mother nor Miss Betsey could forbear glancing that way. As the elms bent to one another, like giants who were whispering secrets, and after a few seconds of such repose, fell into a violent flurry, tossing their wild arms about, as if their late confidences were really too wicked for their peace of mind.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Mind
  • Way
  • Garden

• 'Kiss Land' wasn't about what people wanted to hear on the radio. It was the state of mind I was in - introverted, like David Cronenberg's 'Naked Lunch.' You didn't know if you were hearing a chorus or a verse. It was just my thoughts.

  

  The Weeknd
  • People
  • Mind
  • Thoughts

• NC-17 means that you get it in like 3 theaters. They won't run the spots on MTV, won't run the advertising. It's the kiss of death so there was really no other choice.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • Death
  • Running
  • Mean

• Authoritarianism, an unrealistic occidental imagination - these issues will never be settled. Turkey will continue to take Europe as a model; it will continue to pursue its search for democracy.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Imagination
  • Democracy
  • Model

• So kiss me Kate, Thou lovely loon, E'er we start on our honeymoon. Oh, kiss me, Kate, Darling devil divine, For now thou shall ever be mine.

  

  Cole Porter
  • Devil
  • Kiss