Napkonvektor Quotes & Sayings

To be an actor you have to have a certain amount of madness in you. That's why, when people meet you and you seem very together, they are quite surprised - they don't see you behind closed doors. — Nicole Kidman

trust me you will never remember this day. When you grow up, you will probably never be friends with the people that are sitting next to you today. — Patrick Allen

Many feelings are simply too good to last
using the phrase not in the unbelieving sense in which it is generally used, but to express the fact that intensity and endurance cannot coexist in the human frame. But the virtue of a mood depends by no means on its immediate presence. Like any other experience, it may be believed in, and, in its absence, which leaves the mind free to contemplate it, works even more good than its presence — George MacDonald

Things are grouped together for a reason, but, once they are grouped, their grouping causes them to seem more like each other than they otherwise would. That is, the mere act of classification reinforces stereotypes. If you want to weaken some stereotype, eliminate the classification. Amos's — Michael Lewis

Directors go their whole career without being able to tell personal stories and to work with a cast as talented as they are. — Christian Bale

I am just a plain, common man. — Nicholas II Of Russia

He's not sure how all the cowboys stay so good-looking in the movies when the country is so openly hostile to sartorial maintenance. — Robert Jackson Bennett

When I meet with most entrepreneurial teams, I ask them a simple question: How do you know that you're making progress? Most of them really can't answer that question. — Eric Ries

At that moment of realization I knew that I had been blind because I had wished not to see; it was only then that I realised, at last, that all these dead men, French and Germans, were brothers, and I was the brother of them all. — Ernst Toller

The four most influential moderns: Darwin, Marx, Freud, and (the productive) Einstein were scholars but not academics. It has always been hard to do genuine - and no perishable - work within institutions — Nassim Nicholas Taleb