180 quotes found
“Leave it to a vampire to think a healthy guy in his late thirties or early forties was on his deathbed.”
“You have to thank God for the seemingly good and the seemingly bad because really, you don't know the difference [until we get to heaven].”
“Oh, what can you do with a man like that? What can you do? How can you dissuade his eye in a crowd from seeking out the cheek with acne, the infirm hand; how can you teach him to respond to the ine...”
“There were always people who struggled their way to the top of the heap, no matter how much that heap looked like garbage when seen from the outside.”
“As small as a world as large as alone.”
“Once the blinders are off, it's rather hard to go back to seeing things the way you used to.”
“If theres one thing I have learned its that if you carry on as though nothing strange is happening, it usually stops being strange”
“Wide horizons lead the soul to broad ideas; circumscribed horizons engender narrow ideas; this sometimes condemns great hearts to become small minded.Broad ideas hated by narrow ideas,this is the v...”
“...what happens tomorrow is the future but what happened yesterday is already part of on-going history...”
“The worm in the radish doesn't think there is anything sweeter.”
“It seemed the more I knew about people the more I knew about the strange magic hidden in their hearts.”
“Maybe belief is the biggest lie. In ages past, the earliest philosophers tried to explain the stars in the sky and the world around them. One of them conceived of the notion that the universe was m...”
“We have to care what someone thinks of us. We are incapable of seeing ourselves [sometimes].”
“Failure. It doesn't exist. 'Failure' is just what happens when we lose perspective.”
“You always hear that tragedies put sports in perspective, that they prove we shouldn't care this much about the successes and failures of a bunch of wealthy strangers. I'm going the other way - som...”
“From a motivation perspective, helping others enriches the meaning and purpose of our own lives, showing us that our contributions matter and energizing us to work harder, longer, and smarter.”
“I'm a believer in the ordinary person, that the ordinary person is just as important and has an equally unique perspective on the world as someone who is famous or perhaps more privileged.”
“It may sound strange to say it of someone so famous, but I think Leonardo DiCaprio is underrated, particularly from an awards perspective. He is a very versatile actor. He started very young, and '...”
“If you ever get rich and famous, by definition you are special. You have done something special, and therefore you start to behave special. Then if the floor drops out, and you become down and out,...”
“I'm a diplomat by nature. I help find the middle ground. I crack a joke and use humour to help resolve potentially vicious situations quickly. It gets things in perspective and helps everyone to se...”
