Lardente Quotes & Sayings

I don't like the word 'strong,' because a strong character is never an interesting character. A character is made interesting by their vulnerabilities and their weaknesses. — Helen Mirren

Because, I figured that, because I was a successful man, I was wealthy, I was, you know, seemingly intelligent - even that I am not intelligent enough to ask for help. — Elton John

Founders need sizable egos to believe that what they are creating is good enough to change the world. What makes for great co-founders is having those egos focused on complementary, not competing, skills. — Jay Samit

The eyes are the windows of the soul ... If someone was to look into your eyes, what would you want them to see? — E.L. Konigsburg

What makes you push the shutter has to do with seeking a kind of perfection, a harmony in the world. You are instinctively aware it's there, but you've got to be completely alert and quick and so deeply awake that it moves you. — Sylvia Plachy

What's to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick. — Henrik Ibsen

I did theatre a lot when I was a kid. Then I went to acting school in New York. I did a lot of behind the scenes in college. I wanted to learn while I had the time. I studied theatre and film in different capacities. — Justin Bartha

First Amendment freedoms are most in danger when the government seeks to control thought or to justify its laws for that impermissible end. The right to think is the beginning of freedom, and speech must be protected from the government because speech is the beginning of thought.
[Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition (00-795), 198 F.3d 1083, affirmed.] — Anthony M. Kennedy

Theater in Israel is not more dangerous than walking in the street. — Meital Dohan

The key ingredient to stardom is the team. — John Wooden

Desire for and delight in God's Word are inseparable. — John Piper

I'm not coming in to teach and play the big veteran guy. I'm coming in to win games. — Cliff Floyd

I have an aristocratic smile and like to punch people. — Jonathan Safran Foer

He's fighting it, probably more for me than for him, and it's hard because unconsciousness would be its own form of escape. But the adrenaline pumping through my body would never allow me to follow him, so I can't let him go. I just can't. — Suzanne Collins

I'm an old trial lawyer. — Patrick Leahy