Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.
JOHN STUART MILLI want to take Justin Bieber for a month and just lock him up in a cage where we sit and make music. He’s one of the most successful people in the world, but his music could be so much tighter.
More the Creator, Tyler Quotes
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How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS -
Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O’er a’ the ills o’ life victorious.
ROBERT BURNS -
In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.
BOETHIUS -
Adding explanation to the descriptive passages of a screenplay is the most dangerous trap you can fall into.
AKIRA KUROSAWA -
Writing doesn’t come easily to anyone, I think, certainly not to me. But pressure and practice does lend a certain fluency
ADAM GOPNIK -
At the Oscars, if you didn’t vote for ’12 Years a Slave’ you were a racist.
GARY OLDMAN -
There may be things that are completely unknowable to us, so we must be careful not to treat the limits of our knowledge as sure guides to the limit of what there is.
DANIEL DENNETT -
What is easy is seldom excellent.
SAMUEL JOHNSON -
When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON -
I think the working-class part of me comes out. Sometimes the people who have the loudest mouths are upper-class, upper-middle-class.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG -
In deep pain, people don’t need logic, advice, encouragement, or even Scripture. They just need you to show up and shut up.
RICK WARREN -
We don’t just build on successes, we also build on failures.
A. P. J. ABDUL KALAM -
The more closely [the German army] converged on [Stalingrad], the narrower became their scope for tactical manoeuvre as a lever in loosening resistance. By contrast, the narrowing of the frontage made it easier for the defender to switch his local reserves to any threatened point on the defensive arc.
B. H. LIDDELL HART -
I use the words gods and goddesses principally, I think, to mean beautiful bodies – bodies that are absolute instruments. And I believe in discipline, I believe in a very definite technique.
MARTHA GRAHAM -
Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
ADAM WEISHAUPT