"I was appalled at the amount of study necessary in order to qualify in medicine, and gradually my desire was blunted by a keener - and secret - wish to become an actor."

--

Conrad Veidt

#Stupid Quotes #Order Quotes #Medicine Quotes

“Kids should feel afraid of 'Doctor Who.' All the adults I've talked to remember fondly being afraid when they were kids. That's part of the reason they remember it and love it. And if you're afraid in a controlled way, you sort of appreciate fear in some respect.”
“We have an obligation to each other to not only push our politicians, but to push companies to do right by their workers. They wouldn't even have successful companies without their workers. They are the glue that keeps things together. How, in the 21st century, we have mega-corporations that have lost sight of that boggles my mind.”
“I think drugs are like strawberries and peaches.”
“If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you.”
“Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbor.”
“The duty of a lyrical poet is not to express or explain, it is to intensify life.”

Source : James Stephens, Shirley Stevens Mulligan (2006). “The Poems of James Stephens”, A Colin Smythe Publication
“Literature should not be exclusive, it should be inclusive. My general view is that you can't, based on your own experience, project what a book will do for someone else. That's why I don't review books.”
“If you don't believe there's some organising principle, or somebody up in the sky pulling the strings, then it can be very stressful. And nature itself is very arbitrary - it's not malevolent or benevolent; it doesn't even know we're here.”

You may also like:

Basil Rathbone
Actor
Bette Davis
Actress
Bob Kane
Artist
Claude Rains
Film actor
Errol Flynn
Actor
Humphrey Bogart
Actor
Ingrid Bergman
Actress
Michael Curtiz
Film director
Peter Lorre
Actor