Con Air Steve Buscemi Quotes & Sayings

I always loved acting - though what I did in my teens was probably more eclat than elan. But I wasn't sure about doing it professionally. — Rory Kinnear

An industry begins with the customer and his or her needs, not with a patent, a raw material, or a selling skill — Theodore Levitt

Sermons seldom convert sinners; they sometimes goad them into more sin. — Salvador De Madariaga

I think a lot about the poems I wasn't able to write ... I masturbrated ... Solitude is essentially a matter of pride; you bury yourself in your own scent. The issue is the same for all real poets. If you've been happy for too long, you become banal. By the same token, if you've been unhappy for a long time, you lose your poetic power ... Happiness and poverty can only coexist for the briefest time. Afterword either happiness coarsens the poet or the poem is so true it destroys his happiness. — Orhan Pamuk

Advertising must respect the intelligence of its audience and if it does not prompt them to think, it will be instantly dismissed. — Maurice Saatchi

Be content to seem what you really are. — Marcus Aurelius

Never. Never for me. I'd die first. Never's a liar. — Lauren Groff

If we did ten things, nine were bad and got disclosed by the newspapers, we will be over. Then I will go, to the countryside, lead the peasant and revolt. If the Liberation Army do not follow me, I will get the Red Army. — Mao Zedong

For the greater good":
the phrase that always precedes
the greatest evil. — Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski

Take the joy and bear the sorrow, looking past your hopes and fears: learn to recognize the measured dance that orders all our years. — Archilochus

I have been involved in music since 1972 when I started managing two artists from The Jimi Hendrix Band. My family has been involved in music for years, so it's kind of in my blood. I just wish I could sing! — Earl Monroe

A very, terribly long time ago,
before such things as television
and good table manners or even
children, ferocious monsters
roamed a younger, angrier world. — Berkeley Breathed

The first private space of my own wasn't a dorm room; it was a hotel room in Tulsa, Oklahoma. — Rob Lowe

What I try to do is write from the inside out. I really try to jump into the world of the film and the characters, try to imagine myself in that world rather than imagining it as a film I'm watching onscreen. Sometimes, that means I'm discovering things the way the audience will, with character and story. — Christopher Nolan