Mirren Mckellen Quotes & Sayings

Loving someone unconditionally is the ultimate joy; to feel that you are beloved is ultimate happiness. — Debasish Mridha

If we could renounce our artful contrivances and discard our (scheming for) gain, there would be no thieves nor robbers. — Lao-Tzu

In advertising, if you could get clients to laugh, they usually bought your ideas — Michael Gates Gill

Before Michael Caine you had to have been in the RAF to be an actor. — Bob Hoskins

The will to power which always emanates from individuals or from small minorities in society is in fact a most important driving force in history. The extent of its influence has up to now been regarded far too little, although it has frequently been the determining factor in the shaping of the whole of economic and social life. — Rudolf Rocker

It's sad to fall asleep. It separates people. Even when you're sleeping together, you're all alone. — J.L. Merrow

You got to be pretty thin to be in the movies, or it helps. I would actually love to do it. — Gregg Allman

I don't care about crime, I just want to get the guns. — Howard Metzenbaum

You always pay too much. Particularly for promises. There aint no such thing as a bargain promise. — Cormac McCarthy

Exposed like butt cheeks at a strip club; chicken breasts, fleshy and sallow in the butcher's case; tequila bottle soldiers lined up across the bar's back wall. — Dennis Vickers

I could try composing wonderful musical works, or day-long entertainment epics, but what would that do? Give people pleasure? My wiping this table gives me pleasure. And people come to a clean table, which gives them pleasure. And anyway" - the man laughed - "people die; stars die; universes die. What is any achievement, however great it was, once time itself is dead? Of course, if all I did was wipe tables, then of course it would seem a mean and despicable waste of my huge intellectual potential. But because I choose to do it, it gives me pleasure. And," the man said with a smile, "it's a good way of meeting people. So where are you from, anyway? — Iain M. Banks

Consider Christmas - could Satan in his most malignant mood have devised a worse combination of graft plus bunkum than the system whereby several hundred million people get a billion or so gifts for which they have no use, and some thousands of shop clerks die of exhaustion while selling them, and every other child in the Western world is made ill from overeating - all in the name of the lowly Jesus? — Upton Sinclair

Thoughts aren't the problem. Problems only develop when thoughts no longer arise from or refer to actual experience. That's when thoughts start ossifying into their own bureaucratic institutions, becoming assumptions and dogma. — Ethan Nichtern