Quotes 301 till 320 of 655.
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Most books on management are written by management consultants, and they study successful companies after they've succeeded, so they only hear winning stories.
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Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything.
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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
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Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown.
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Most writers steal a good thing when they can, and when 'Tis safely got 'Tis worth the winning. The worst of 't is we now and then detect em, they ever dream that we suspect em.
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Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.
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Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.
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Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.
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Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf.
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My favorite Oscar story was a year my brother had been nominated, my whole family went.
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My favorite work is The Full Monty because I got an Oscar for it. But it was really hard work at the time. Sometimes comedy is not a bundle of laughs to actually do.
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My great mistake, the fault for which I can't forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.
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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels - we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]
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Never speak disrespectfully of Society. Only people who can't get into it do that.
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Newspapers have degenerated. They may now be absolutely relied upon.
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No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.
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No great artist ever sees things as they really are, if he did he would cease to be an artist.
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No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.
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