All Quotes

There is the intent of the writer and the interpretation by the artist. What the writer intended and what the artist interprets is not a 1-to-1 translation. It's a crossing of ideas that generates the stories that you see in print.
‐‐ Jim Lee

There is the love and marriage and family kind of happiness, which is exceedingly boring to describe but nonetheless is important to have and dreadful not to have.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

There is the melancholy of Europe. There is the romantic malaise. Feeling sad is almost a form of deepness.
‐‐ Mathieu Amalric

There is the moral spectrum in 'Fargo,' and you see it in other Coen brothers movies, where you have a very good character on one end and a very bad character on the other.
‐‐ Noah Hawley

There is the morass, wherein you plunge up to your knees, or the walking over the stubborn, dwarfish shrubbery, whereby one treads down the forests of Labrador; and the unexpected bunting or sylvia which perchance, and indeed as if by chance alone, you now and then see flying before you, or hear singing from the ground creeping plant.
‐‐ John James Audubon

There is the most wonderful thing called Polaris: it's a very high frequency laser treatment that lifts and tightens the skin.
‐‐ Felicity Kendal

There is the myth that writing books for children is easier than writing books for grownups, whereas we know that truly great books for children are works of genius, whether it's 'Alice in Wonderland' or the 'Gruffalo' or 'Northern Lights.' When it's a great book, it's a great book, whether it's for children or not.
‐‐ Michael Morpurgo

There is the natural tendency that all of us are vulnerable to, to deny unpleasant realities and to look for any excuse to push them away and resolve to think about them another day long in the future.
‐‐ Al Gore

There is the odd exception, like Albert Einstein, but as a breed, scientists tend not be very good at presenting themselves.
‐‐ Bill Bryson

There is the sky, which is all men's together.
‐‐ Euripides

There is the story in every man's heart of human progress. I believe every one of us knows that his major job on Earth is to make some contributions, no matter how small, to this inexorable movement of human progress.
‐‐ King Vidor

There is the theory... that you live in two places: You either live in fear, or you live in love.
‐‐ Michael Keaton

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.
‐‐ John Ashbery

There is the worldview of Greater Israel, the worldview of settlements: to send citizens to live in those places. That's not about security; that's not about the army. That's about an ideology that believes we need to stay in all of the Land of Israel. I don't share that ideology.
‐‐ Tzipi Livni

There is therefore a tremendous mystery in the fact that God may be united with man and the man with God.
‐‐ Michael Servetus

There is, therefore, no solution possible other than an economy directed by the workers through their organisations of control-through the workers' syndicates.
‐‐ Federica Montseny

There is this absurd assumption that the revitalisation of the public sphere is always a good thing. I think people tend to confuse 'civic' and 'civil,' and they believe that everything that is done by citizens is necessarily a good thing because you build a network, an association.
‐‐ Evgeny Morozov

There is this assumption that much of what I write is about my life, and that simply is not true.
‐‐ Siri Hustvedt

There is this brutal side to tennis. It was invented as a game for kings and cardinals and people with a lot of power who didn't have to share the field with other players.
‐‐ Alvaro Enrigue

There is this cat and mouse game that plays out over time where our team comes up with new and interesting ideas to identify content that we shouldn't recommend, and over time people are constantly probing that, trying to figure out how can they get around that and get a better reputation on Yelp.
‐‐ Jeremy Stoppelman

There is this church that I go to a lot in New York. I'm not religious but I love lighting candles and stuff. I find it useful.
‐‐ Rufus Wainwright

There is this concept of politics as a dirty game.
‐‐ George Papandreou

There is this concept of politics as a dirty game. It's a difficult game, but it doesn't have to be dirty. I think this is what we need to bring to politics. I think politics around the world has very often been captured by big interests - 'lobbies' they call them in the States.
‐‐ George Papandreou

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
‐‐ Charles Caleb Colton

There is this great, great wrestler, who never really got an opportunity to be a star, named Len Denton: he was a masked guy called The Grappler. He was one of my favorite guys to ever wrestle, and it was just a tremendous pleasure to step in the ring with him.
‐‐ Jake Roberts

There is this group of people who love innovation. Those people want to innovate, and they think the Internet is a wonderful tool for innovation, which is true. But you also have to remember that much of that innovation is constrained within the realities of the foreign policy.
‐‐ Evgeny Morozov

There is this huge Roma problem in Europe. There are a lot of Romas who are discriminated against in countries like the Czech Republic or Hungary. They are an ethnic minority that in Europe everyone loves to hate.
‐‐ Evgeny Morozov

There is this idea in comedy that you don't want to look like you care about your appearance because that takes away from what's real, what's important. And the real stuff is what's funny.
‐‐ Steve Howey

There is this idea that appealing to youth is the only way forward. But that is no longer the case. Youth is not everything. Now we have all the baby-boomers in their 60s, like me, who are actively engaged in life - we're not retiring, we're not just being put out to grass once we hit 60.
‐‐ Julie Walters

There is this idea that it's very different from the French point of view to work in America blah, blah, blah. But I think it's different from one person to the other, not from one country to the other.
‐‐ Vincent Cassel

There is this idea that you have to play heroines or women who succeed.
‐‐ Isabella Rossellini

There is this image of a guy in a hot tub, drinking champagne with two buxom blondes. But that is not the real me. I am a father, and I am a grandfather, too.
‐‐ Robin Leach

There is this immediate connection, this intimacy when you're acting because there's no room to be polite or shy. Also, as an actor I get to connect with women I've never met before.
‐‐ Jessica Chastain

There is this intimacy still in Botswana. It's a country of just under two million people, and there's this sense of connectedness, in that people tend to be related to one another.
‐‐ Alexander McCall Smith

There is this miraculous thing I heard Hugh Grant talking about - the thing about screen acting is that you can read people's thoughts. You are trying to register something inside and usually the eyes in cinema are where you will register that.
‐‐ Toby Jones

There is this mythology that says that when people are born, their brains are essentially fixed very early on and they're not able to change their connections. I was aware that was a myth and that people could learn new skills.
‐‐ Daniel Tammet

There is this peculiar blind spot in the culture of academic medicine around whether withholding trial results is research misconduct. People who work in any industry can reinforce each others' ideas about what is okay.
‐‐ Ben Goldacre

There is this permanent hope in America that there is some new technology around the corner that will change the world.
‐‐ Hasso Plattner

There is this power that comes with being famous.
‐‐ Rod Stewart

There is this real divisive theory that if we allow more immigrants to come into this country, that they're going to take our jobs. It is simply not true. Every person I know who wants to work in a hotel and change sheets can do it.
‐‐ Marcia Fudge

There is this sense of David Cameron leading a Government that's badly out of touch with ordinary people's lives. I'd absolutely welcome the opportunity to show all political leaders what life is like for most people.
‐‐ Frances O'Grady

There is this stereotype of Icelanders all believing in spirits, and I've played up to that a bit in interviews.
‐‐ Bjork

There is this strange fog of being a young man that I would refer to as soft time. Time does not go forward there. It's a series of doors that kind of wind back into one another, like a series of doors in the upper floor of a house. You revisit the same lessons over and over again, or you choose to ignore them.
‐‐ Ryan Adams

There is this thing in America where actresses reach 40 and go mad. The film industry wants all these young people.
‐‐ Monica Bellucci

There is this tremendous amount of arrogance and hubris, where somebody can look at something for five minutes and dismiss it. Whether you talk about gaming or 20th century classical music, you can't do it in five minutes. You can't listen to 'The Rite of Spring' once and understand what Stravinsky was all about.
‐‐ Penn Jillette

There is, to be sure, sometimes only a small difference between being alert to possible danger and allowing oneself to become terrified to the point of paralysis by seeming or imagined portents.
‐‐ Sherwin B. Nuland

There is too little courtship in the world.
‐‐ Vernon Lee

There is too much at stake for us to surrender to the politics of polarization.
‐‐ Brad Henry

There is too much disagreement for disagreement's sake. In a time of persistent challenges that still call into question our most sacred aspirations as a country, we cannot afford shallow callous divisiveness in our public debate.
‐‐ Cory Booker