This time, instead of moving oceans and healing planets, let's get our bills in order and pay down the debt so we control our own future.
I am a misanthrope yet utterly benevolent.
I am a misanthrope and yet utterly benevolent, have more than one screw loose yet am a super-idealist who digests philosophy more efficiently than food.
Contentment is the only real wealth.
The first time I saw nitroglycerine was in the beginning of the Crimean War. Professor Zinin in St. Petersburg exhibited some to my father and me, and struck some on an anvil to show that only the part touched by the hammer exploded without spreading.
If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
The only true solution would be a convention under which all the governments would bind themselves to defend collectively any country that was attacked.
Or maybe. . . their biggest fear is that they will get close to you again, and you'll go and drop dead.
I must be besotted,” he said evenly. “I have the imbecilic idea that you’re the prettiest girl I’ve ever seen. Except for your coiffure,” he added, with a disgusted glance at the coils and plumes and pearls. “That is ghastly. ” She scowled. “Your romantic effusions leave me breathless.
When I watch the movie, which is I don't know how many times I've done now with editing and everything, I walk out giddy just because I feel like that's the movie that I want to see.
I often get offered things that are so similar to things that I have done, and life is too short. When you make a film or a show, as you get older, that's a lot of time to be doing something that you're not absolutely invested in or in love with.