W. C. Fields Quotes

I write my scripts short and they develop on the set, which I have found a far better premise both economically and practically.

W. C. Fields

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• He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • God
  • Live
  • Alone

• Everything's always about being homogenized and following in a group. The people who stand out always have the most problems.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • People
  • Problems
  • Stand

• I see a curator as a catalyst, generator and motivator - a sparring partner, accompanying the artist while they build a show, and a bridge builder, creating a bridge to the public.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Artist
  • Partner
  • Bridge

• You either get better, or you don't progress.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • You
  • Progress
  • Better

• NoScript is probably the most important privacy tool, but it costs you in convenience.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Important
  • You
  • Privacy

• In the villages in Europe, there are still healers who tell stories.

  

  Yannick Noah
  • Tell
  • Still
  • Villages

• Film has always been a really good tool for me to communicate emotion about why I create a collection. I'm probably one of the first designers to make short films.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • Good
  • Film
  • Emotion

• Any time you make more than a couple of friends at an event, I think that you actually made no friends.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Think

• I have always appreciated designers who dare to reinterpret fabrics and proportions, so I follow the Japanese and Belgian designers. The pieces are so animated. When they lie still, they are one thing, but once you stand them up or wear them, they become something else.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Up
  • You
  • Japanese

• I think some of the pressure comes from the expectations of other people. Like if your father played baseball, they expect you to be the big lifesaver or something when you play a sport.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • People
  • Father
  • Baseball

• Maybe a day will come when we may have to just put on a pair of glasses and see sports events.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • May
  • Day
  • Sports

• Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull.

  

  Vance Havner
  • Church
  • End
  • Start

• I hope we will be able to have a happy family ourselves.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Family
  • Happy
  • Hope

• It can be safely asserted that since early Colonial times, the North has had a distinct race problem. Every one of these States had slaves, and at the beginning of Washington's Administration, there were 40,000 black slaves and 17,000 black freemen in this section.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Black
  • Problem
  • Beginning

• You're asked, 'Do you know kung-fu?' Yeah. That's what we do. We wake up, we brush our teeth, we do kung-fu!

  

  Maggie Q
  • Up
  • Know
  • Wake Up

• The man who renounces himself, comes to himself.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Who may be called a paramahamsa? He who, like a swan, can take the milk from a mixture of milk and water, leaving aside the water. He who, like an ant, can take the sugar from a mixture of sugar and sand, leaving aside the sand.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • May
  • Water
  • Leaving

• A community is the mental and spiritual condition of knowing that the place is shared, and that the people who share the place define and limit the possibilities of each other's lives. It is the knowledge that people have of each other, their concern for each other, their trust in each other, the freedom with which they come and go among themselves.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Knowledge

• With two thousand years of Christianity behind him... a man can't see a regiment of soldiers march past without going off the deep end. It starts off far too many ideas in his head.

  

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine
  • Past
  • Deep
  • March

• I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn't, then why would you say I am.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Whatever You Say

• Well I travelled quite a lot in the east, and one of the things that impressed me greatly was the buddhist notion of the continuity of things, the wheel of life which is what we're talking about, the ever turning wheel.

  

  Morris West
  • Talking
  • Buddhist
  • Impressed

• Technological revolutions are very hard to predict. My favourite example is someone in 1850 taking care of horses as a farrier. They would have said, "Look, horses have been part of human existence for 5,000 years. We are horse people. It's permanent." But all of a sudden, the internal combustion engine comes along and, with it, oil fields and automobiles, which basically replace the horse completely. So we often have these long periods of stability and then a sudden inflection point.

  

  Reed Hastings
  • Care
  • Revolution
  • Existence

• With less competition to fear, companies are emboldened to raise their mark-ups and profits. That lifts share prices and thus the wealth of already wealthy shareholders.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Fear
  • Competition
  • Wealth

• I write my scripts short and they develop on the set, which I have found a far better premise both economically and practically.

  

  W. C. Fields