Ken Adam Quotes
I'm an incurable romantic, and Casablanca's one of the most romantic pictures I've ever seen - the combination of Bogart and Bergman is just magical.
Quotes to Explore
-
If they understand, which I believe they really are sensing, that the alternative the Republicans have been offering is to repeal what we've done, to go back to Bush policies - and if you asked the public what would you prefer, Bush economic policies or Obama economic policies, they take and prefer Obama economic policies.
-
Most of the producers don't know what they do. The misconception of the producers' function is really not a misconception. Most producers don't do a very good job.
-
Everybody in the Middle East wants to explain why they're right.
-
If you needed to borrow a cup of sugar, you knocked on your neighbour's door.
-
I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.
-
My most noticeable physical trait is, hands down, my hair. It's big, unruly and curly, and you can spot it from a mile away... literally.
-
There's no way you can predict what is going to happen in six months or two years in most businesses, and certainly not for businesses that are growing at the rate that we have grown.
-
Nothing can make you more humble than pain.
-
I have short-term memory loss. I know that some of the memories of the Super Bowl championships are fading.
-
If I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they're my terms, and they're not.
-
If the only ideas you had were your own, you'd be very limited.
-
Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.
-
The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.
-
In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.
-
I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
-
My new movie, Fools Rush In, is a romantic comedy and the girl I play in that is very warm, very sweet.
-
The amygdala plays a crucial role in processing fear, and minus her two amygdalae, S.M. became unflappable. Studies of her are actually a hoot to read, since they basically consist of scientists concocting ever-more-elaborate ways of trying to scare her.
-
The minimum wage was due for an increase, but it was important that we offset its cost to small businesses.
-
My workspace is defined by books, ephemera, quiet and light. I don't have a computer, telephone or a fax machine there.
-
Sometimes you can do the work in the moment, and you don't know whether it's going to really have meaning once time has elapsed.
-
Some of our best episodes of 'Buffy' were written over a weekend. You can really get in touch with your creative spirit when you're at your most desperate.
-
The original Golden Dawn was not always as serious as it should have been. Mathers was a clown, and Yeats was just a romantic trying to deceive himself. Most of them were interested in personal power, and it ended up by destroying them. The aim of our group is the scientific exploration of the hidden powers of the human mind.
-
My main goal as a songwriter is to make something that inspires people. To write things about my life that people can relate to. Whether it's a whole record or just one song for someone, I hope it can do that for them. Knowing that I have the ability to do that is inspiring to me.
-
I'm an incurable romantic, and Casablanca's one of the most romantic pictures I've ever seen - the combination of Bogart and Bergman is just magical.
