Method Quotes
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God does not work by only one method, paint in only one color, play in only one key, nor does he make only one star shine onto the earth.
Eberhard Arnold
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I have no idea what 'method actor' means.
Viggo Mortensen
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If there is some profound method that offers a quick way, we would rather follow that than undertake arduous journeys and difficult practices. But some manual work and physical effort is necessary.
Chogyam Trungpa
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As time goes on, I get more and more convinced that the right method in investment is to put fairly large sums into enterprises which one thinks one knows something about and in the management of which one thoroughly believes. It is a mistake to think that one limits one's risk by spreading too much between enterprises about which one knows little and has no reason for special confidence. . . . One's knowledge and experience are definitely limited and there are seldom more than two or three enterprises at any given time in which I personally feel myself entitled to put full confidence.
John Maynard Keynes
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Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage.
Oscar Wilde
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The great trouble with magicians is the fact that they believe when they have bought a certain trick or piece of apparatus, and know the method of procedure, that they are full-fledged mystifiers.
Harry Houdini
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Most all methods of capitol punishment are designed to inflict the maximum of humiliation - not attempts to prevent suicide.
William S. Burroughs
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The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If you wanted to dissect the structure of living cells, genetic analysis was an extremely powerful method, so my interest turned to that.
Joshua Lederberg
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Our method of proclaiming salvation is this: to point out to every heart the loving Lamb, who died for us, and although He was the Son of God, offered Himself for our sins ... by the preaching of His blood, and of His love unto death, even the death of the cross.
Nicolaus Zinzendorf
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The really valuable method of thought to arrive at a logically coherent system is intuition.
Albert Einstein
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Of course it was a method of play you had to change because people get the idea once they have played against you.
Jack Charlton
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Few persons can be made to believe that it is not quite an easy thing to invent a method of secret writing that shall baffle investigation. Yet it may be roundly asserted that human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot resolve.
Edgar Allan Poe
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I'm kind of horny, conventional methods of making love kind of bore me.
LL Cool J
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The Marxist outlook ... represents the most consistent and systematic application of the scientific outlook and method.
Bob Avakian
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God's plan is to make much of the man, far more of him than of anything else. Men are God's method. The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men.
Edward McKendree Bounds
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It's not how deep you go, it's how you go deep.
Ida Pauline Rolf
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You can't uninvent things, you can only make them obsolete... Ronald Reagan understood that the surest method of neutralising any weapon is to make it obsolete.
Mark Steyn
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My method of getting a play across the footlights is like a revolver shooting: every line has a bullet in it and comes with an explosion.
George Bernard Shaw
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Play is the most natural method of self-healing that childhood affords.
Erik Erikson
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To barbecue is a way of life rather than a desirable method of cooking.
Clement Freud
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Method acting? There are quite a few methods. Mine involves a lot of talent, a glass, and some cracked ice.
John Barrymore
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The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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Every actor has their own method, so I'm not suggesting what works for me will work for everybody else.
William Mapother