True Quotes

• Christopher Nolan's astounding third Batman feature, 'The Dark Knight Rises,' represents the true maturation of the superhero movie - and provides the key to understanding the bottomless craving moviegoers have for these films, 34 years after the Christopher Reeve Superman gave birth to the genre.

  

  John Podhoretz
  • Movie
  • Understanding
  • Dark

• We must believe what is good and true about the prophets, that they were sages, that they did understand what proceeded from their mouths, and that they bore prudence on their lips.

  

  Origen
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Lips

• Look at timber prices in the late '90s, at around $50. If you count the true damage of cutting down forests, the resultant flooding, insurance claims, and so on, then the timber price should have been $100.

  

  Jochen Zeitz
  • True
  • Cutting
  • Insurance

• One of my favorite movies is the old Depardieu film 'The Return Of Martin Guerre,' which is actually a true story and a book.

  

  Kurt Sutter
  • Book
  • True

• When I was in college I did a lot of stupid things and I don't want to make an excuse for that. Some of the things that people accuse me of are true, some of them aren't. There are pranks, IMs.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg
  • People
  • College
  • Stupid

• I have to tell you, my seven-year-old granddaughter said to my daughter, her mother, 'So what's the big deal about Grandma Maddy having been Secretary of State? Only girls are Secretaries of State.' Most of her lifetime, it's true. But at the time it really was a big deal.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Time
  • Mother
  • Girl

• And if you stop and think about it you won't believe it's true: That all the love you've been giving has all been meant for you.

  

  Justin Hayward The Moody Blues
  • Believe
  • Giving
  • Stop

• My wife is gorgeous and brilliant, and my son True is my best little buddy in the world.

  

  Jason Kander
  • World
  • Wife
  • Son

• Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true.

  

  Samuel E. Morison
  • True
  • Professional
  • Be True

• This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • People
  • Give
  • Unusual

• Acting is a weird, kind of alienating job because you're in an isolated place. Even if you're working with a lot of other people, you're kind of alienated. Actors say that a lot, and I kind of find that to be true.

  

  Jesse Eisenberg
  • People
  • Job
  • Weird

• We live in a society where we basically live and strive on what people think about us. We’re more visual people so what we see is basically what we believe which is not necessarily true.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • People
  • Believe
  • Society

• I’m sure you have heard it said that appearance does not matter so much, and that it is what's on the inside that counts. This is, of course, utter nonsense, because if it were true then people who were good on the inside would never have to comb their hair or take a bath, and the whole world would smell even worse than it already does. -Lemony Snicket

  

  Daniel Handler
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• If half-black Barack Obama had decided years ago to call himself white - which his genes certainly entitled him to do - his story would have carried very different meaning. If millions of part-black people had followed him into whiteness, then the N.A.A.C.P. would be in true crisis.

  

  Eric Liu
  • People
  • Different
  • Black

• ''Everything is true', he said. 'Everything anybody has ever thought.'

  

  Philip K. Dick
  • True

• I love 'True Blood.' I love 'The Walking Dead.' Those are fantastic series.

  

  Kirk Hammett Metallica
  • True
  • Walking

• I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • Long
  • Care
  • Written

• When I first put my hat in the ring, several very tried and true and loyal Democratic activists from our community said, 'What? She's not a Democrat. She's a Republican.' I took that as a compliment, you know, that people didn't necessarily know what my ideology might be because I wasn't driven by that.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • People
  • She
  • Community

• Doo-wop is the true music to me, man. Doo-wop was what nurtured me and grew me into who I am, and I guess even when I was in school, the teacher probably thought I had ADD or something every day, because I'd be beating on the desks, singing like the Flamingos or the Spaniels or Clyde McPhatter or somebody.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Music
  • School
  • Day

• Happiness in the ordinary sense is not what one needs in life, though one is right to aim at it. The true satisfaction is to come through and see those whom one loves come through.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Life
  • True

• Every movie, especially when you get involved... takes something out of you. You learn something, but you give something to the movie. And after the movie, if the experience has been intense and a true experience, you're a little different afterward.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Different
  • Experience
  • Movie

• I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.

  

  Beck
  • Hair
  • Artist
  • Genius

• Christianity was an epidemic rather than a religion. It appealed to fear, hysteria and ignorance. It spread across the Western world, not because it was true, but because humans are gullible and superstitious.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • World
  • Fear
  • Ignorance

• Distant or near, in joy or in sorrow, each in the other sees his true helper to brotherly freedom.

  

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  • True
  • Freedom
  • Joy

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