Kenneth Clark Quotes
Changes in the structure of society are not brought about solely by massive engines of doctrine. The first flash of insight which persuades human beings to change their basic assumptions is usually contained in a few phrases.
Quotes to Explore
-
Honestly speaking, I don't like my films. When I watch them, I see a lot of scope for improvement, so if I were to see any of my films, like 'Dhoom,' I might say... 'It would have been better if...' or 'had it been...' and this is all about evolving.
-
I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress.
-
When Mitt Romney talked about Putin expanding his sphere of influence, Obama mocked and said, 'The Cold War has been over 20 years, nothing to be worried about'... We keep making that mistake with Putin.
-
All performances are different. I don't think it's necessary to compare one with another. I am just me playing the role of Lear. You're bound to get a Holm approach to it, whatever that may be. I just got out there and did it. I'm very much a doer in my acting.
-
I was in a really crummy pop-punk band. I think we did a whole bunch of Blink-182 covers, and we were on the fringe of losers and jocks. So we invited all the cool kids to come watch us play in our bass player's brother's bedroom. And it was terrible, but everyone thought we were so cool.
-
We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
-
I think in the lifetime of a tennis player there are many times where you feel that tremendous confidence.
-
You can take of a man's money, but when it's all said and done, you've only taken his money.
-
I feared vulnerability more than my actual emotional pain itself!
-
You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes.
-
You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.
-
To say that Jimmy Carter does not understand politics or is not a good politician denies the phenomenon by which he got to the White House. He is without question the best politician, when he's working at it, of anybody I have ever seen.
-
I draw and play the piano badly. But when I'm doing those things, I'm concentrating so hard there's no room for worry. I find that onstage, too.
-
I don't feel that no big stone should be put over my head, saying he did this, he did that. Unless there's something that I really did do. I believe I'm just ordinary. And I'd like for people to think of me that way, as just a guy that tried. Wanted to be loved by other people because he loved people.
-
I'm not a huge fan of my work.
-
It's the way the human brain works: when enough events occur in a pattern, we stop thinking and go into macro mode.
-
All you needed back then was a blow dryer and a dream.
-
I listen to a lot of jazz. I'm a big Sinatra geek. I love Chet Baker.
-
If more people would try and reach up instead of going to the lowest common denominator, I think we'd be a lot better off.
-
Women become the objects of rules; they are repressed and lose their rights in the name of religion, or they lose their freedom in the name of tradition, while the state legitimates this foolishness with laws.
-
When we build an attractive home, we raze land on which animals have already built their homes. They have nowhere to go.
-
I'm almost fifty you know! (said when aged 42!)
-
The sole purpose and effect of it is to exclude persecution and to secure the important right of religious liberty.
-
Changes in the structure of society are not brought about solely by massive engines of doctrine. The first flash of insight which persuades human beings to change their basic assumptions is usually contained in a few phrases.
