Many Quotes

My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.

Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.

Many of you are well enough off that the tax cuts may have helped you. We're saying that for America to get back on track, we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.

As a young man, I went to Paris and soaked up many hours of film knowledge from Robert Hakim in my efforts to become a producer.

A lot of times people's main motives and plan in life is to hurt as many people as they can, but I think there's enough good people that help make the world a good place.

I think that, ah, I'm a very goofy sort of person in many ways.

I was a savage for so many years of my life. There was some seed of determination in me that I was not conscious of. I was mostly consciously getting into trouble and drunk.

Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.

There have been as many varieties of socialists as there are wild birds that fly in the woods and sometimes go up and on through the clouds.

The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.

We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.

Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separation.

The real threat to whales is whaling, which has endangered many whale species.

What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?

We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.

There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself.

The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers.

Songwriting is something I really need to work on. I don't have very many songs but I really love it. I would love to be a great song writer some day.

The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.

Anyone weighing whether to re-elect the President should take the bin Laden operation into account: it is a powerful exhibit that Obama is a steely Commander in Chief - a critical test for many Americans.

It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends.

If I bring back only one gold people are going to say it's a disappointment. But not too many of them own an Olympic gold medal so if I get one I'm going to be happy.

Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.

Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there who will try to discourage you. Don't listen to them. The only one who can make you give up is yourself.

I don't think many people have a very good understanding of leisure and the importance it plays in our lives.

A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.

Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story.

Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.

I haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.

Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and self-doubt. For many of us, the confusion around this question is excruciating.