Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.
I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.
Ingrid Bergman
Truth is beautiful, without doubt but so are lies.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.
James Thurber, The New York Time
Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.
Tom Stoppard
It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
I'm a better person in a relationship, and I'm a happier person. I need to come home at the end of the day and have it not be about me and my freaking hair and makeup and character motivations anymore. And I think my work is more inspired when home is safe and sound and solid, because what I do for a living is so bananas and so insecure.
Ginnifer Goodwin
He does me double wrongThat wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue.
William Shakespeare, Richard II
It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness.
Bruce Barton
. . . although a skilful flatterer is a most delightful companion, if you can keep him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.
Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickle
At home we're the hosts, and I never liked the idea of being embarrased in front of our friends.
Knute Rockne
'Tis an old maxim in the schools,That flattery's the food of fools;Yet now and then your men of witWill condescend to take a bit.
Jonathan Swift, Cadenus and Vane
I love chicken fingers, I love French fries. I love desserts. I'm not just into dessert or just into savoury food. I love it all. I'm a pig. I love food. So it takes a lot of discipline to eat healthy.
Holly Madison
What valor cannot win, flattery may.
Publilius Syrus, Sententiae, no.
Olympic Gold changed me and my life dramatically. I became a celebrity overnight and people see me as a famous skater, not a real person.
Oksana Baiul
I think Alone in the Dark was too much an action creature movie than a horror creature movie.
Uwe Boll
Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.
Honore de Balzac
People have often asked if I'm gay because I don't go out of my way to spit and scratch and give people attitude.
Jason Bateman
Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.
Adolf Loos
Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up.
Alfred Hitchcock
I don't think a woman has to act like a man to show that she has strength.
Little Richard
Architecture is inhabited sculpture.
Constantin Brancusi
A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.
Bob Hope
People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authority figures.
Martha Beck
All of us, who are members of the Germanic peoples, can be happy and thankful that once in thousands of years fate has given us, from among the Germanic peoples, such a genius, a leader, our Fuehrer Adolf Hitler, and you should be happy to be allowed to work with us.
Heinrich Himmler
My husband is a composer, so he plays piano all the time and I sit there and clap telling my unborn child, 'Hear me clap, hear the music.' I know music, in general, is supposed to be good for babies to hear.
Danica McKellar
By measuring the proportion of children living with the same parents from birth and whether their parents report a good quality relationship we are driving home the message that social programmes should promote family stability and avert breakdown.
Iain Duncan Smith
If you set as your goal to roll back the size of government, you have an obligation to answer the tough questions and show real courage, not just appeal to ideology. Treat the voters like adults.
Brian Baird
It's been a transformative period and I really wanted to make music from what I've experienced.
Adam Lambert
I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
Claude Monet
Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbors.
Rudyard Kipling
I found enormous opposition to my religion. It's like if you want to strengthen your biceps, you lift heavy weight, as heavy as you can handle, and work your muscles against resistance until it grows strong. I had to do that with my religion.
Ricardo Montalban
The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
Elbert Hubbard
We have an amazing fan base all around the world that love 40FT.
Steve Brown
Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
What's cool about indie rock is that one band can do effectively the same thing as another band, and one band nails it, and the other one doesn't. I like that elusiveness.
Andrew Bird
As long as you understand that you find happiness through family, friends and love, then money is just a nice bonus.
Ioan Gruffudd
I noticed that no matter where I went in the country, there was this group of questions that got asked. I would track them and keep them in categories. Like body image, school, family, friendship, you name it, the emotional life of a teenage girl.
Elizabeth Berkley
If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely?
Judy Garland
I'm not really much of a shopper. I have to say that I'd definitely prefer good sex. What makes good sex? Oh my god. I think you need to feel free and you have to really trust the other person. And you have to have that strange, mysterious chemical connection.
Kristin Davis
So much of our lives are defined by habit or what the guy next to us is doing, never wondering and knowing who and what we support with our actions, from the detergent Mom always used, to my favorite dish I make... A lot of my life is unexamined habit.
Kristin Bauer van Straten
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