Sir Larry could be very strict and a disciplinarian, too. He had many faces; he wore many hats. But, ultimately, he loved the theater and he loved actors.
Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.
One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.
Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
Every man has a certain sphere of discretion which he has a right to expect shall not be infringed by his neighbours. This right flows from the very nature of man.
All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.
No one is so completely disenchanted with the world, or knows it so thoroughly, or is so utterly disgusted with it, that when it begins to smile upon him he does not become partially reconciled to it.
There's a tired notion that the photojournalist has to be disengaged to be able to shoot what he shoots, and that's such a cliched idea of what the experience is. Of course they're engaged, and they're not distanced.
I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.
It's disheartening that people think that Donald Sterling is the outlier and that he's the exception and not the rule.
My husband is old-fashioned and kind, he does the greatest Sinatra impression, and I'd never have written anything if he hadn't read all those bedtime stories and unloaded the dishwasher while I slaved over chapters.
To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.
He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply.
I think Michael Moore is loathsome, though, not because he dislikes Bush, but because he seems to dislike America.
Duncan Jones has skills; he's an architect of emotional dislocation.
If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not obey it yet he shall not be dismissed.
I look up to Walt Disney and what he has done.
