Views Quotes - Page 211

It is characteristic of genius to be hopeful and aspiring. It is characteristic of genius to break up the artificial arrangements of conventionalism, and to view mankind in true perspective, in their gradations of inherent rather than of adventitious worth. Genius is therefore essentially democratic, and has always been so.

We commonly confuse closeness with sameness and view intimacy as the merging of two separate I's into one worldview.

The Labour Party is the sister Party for the Democrats and their progressive views are the ones that we are most aligned with.

...in other words, all I want to be is the Jane Austen of south Alabama Interview - March 1964

It doesn't take any longer to improvise 10 takes than it takes to shoot 10 takes of the same thing. It turns out to be just as responsible from a business point of view as anything else.

Journalism is not easy. It's the first rough draft. I don't think you need to wait around until you have the definitive thing. You record what's there; don't delude yourself that this is the ultimate historical view.

By and large, musicians respect New York audiences, and also are greatly concerned about New York reviews.

...the differential element of non-Euclidean spaces is Euclidean. This fact, however, is analogous to the relations between a straight line and a curve, and cannot lead to an epistemological priority of Euclidean geometry, in contrast to the views of certain authors.

I don't cling to earthly life because I believe in eternal life. That's the big distinction between my point of view and a purely secular position.

I'm not much a TV reporter, as in someone who covers the daily machinations of the television industry, though I certainly follow it and weave it into my reviews and essays about the medium.

Balloonists have an unsurpassed view of the scenery, but there is always the possibility that it may collide with them.

It's important for the children's point of view. That they have parents who are equally unreasonable, but in different ways.

Originality houses many rooms, and the views from the windows are all different.

In my view, the novelist has no right to express his opinions on the things of this world. In creating, he must imitate God: do his job and then shut up.

I want to cover all areas that can be depicted visually. This ranges from fairytales to attempts to enter the abstract and view oneself as a social outcast or someone struggling to stay alive.

It is harder to lie in an interview. A good interview - and it can be polite - is not a one way street like a candidate controlled ad. An interview is not programmed by the candidate and so the candidate can't be exactly sure what will be asked.

Getting bad reviews or doing something thats not great is also really good for you as an actor. It also makes me feel as an actor that Ive earned my stripes a bit.

When you run a company, you need to be pretty open-minded. There are a lot of different views on faith, on religion, on many different issues, and you can't let your own faith be the barometer.

In the Christian Story, mind and matter - invisible things and visible things - are both real. The Christian view is not the only way of viewing the world, of course. It has competition.

There is an apocalyptic view to this that is actually kind of appealing, which is the only way to kill big government is to let it kill itself. It's suicide by gluttony. Right now, the government is approaching Fat Elvis during those years in the '70s right before he croaked on the toilet seat. Basically ObamaCare is a huge tray of bacon and banana sandwiches. And it could happen in our lifetimes.

I view every game I play for England as it could be my last, so I go out there and enjoy it. It's the only way I can approach it.

If people read 'Tomorrow' and feel that it is offering them some view of my own household, they would be very, very wrong.

Les Misérables etches Hugo's view of the world so deeply in the mind that it is impossible to be the same person after reading it.

All these people I interview are worth ten times what I'm worth.

What begins with comedy ends with comedy... in my short view of the matter.