Quotes about Things, page 4

The thing that distinguishes them as Native Hawaiians is that Native Hawaiians were part of their racial and ethnic heritage.

Quote by Neil Abercrombie about things

An epic is not even a re-creation of old things; it is altogether a new creation, a new creation in terms of old things.

Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie about things

You take all the things that frighten you, and when you can get them to work for you all of sudden people are calling you a success.

Quote by Randy Bachman about things

There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity; and that is, an ability to see in particular human experience some significant symbolism of man's general destiny.

Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie about things

Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.

Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie about things

Capturing any member of any terrorist cell or any insurgent cell that we may happen to come across is always very, very valuable, and the thing that interests me is that in most instances after a time people talk and they tell us what they know.

Quote by John Abizaid about things

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

Quote by Francis Bacon about things

I think you also understand that one of the key things that's got to be done in Iraq is to build a mentality of understanding that the military needs to be subordinate to civilian control and respectful of its own people.

Quote by John Abizaid about things

Well, the hardest thing to do, as we know from our own experience on 9/11 is protect everything all the time.

Quote by John Abizaid about things

Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

Quote by Kevin Bacon about things

I'm just having a wonderful time. It's an interesting thing that I'm very comfortable with this material and I don't know why. Maybe it's because I did MacBeth.

Quote by F. Murray Abraham about things

I'm not going to just say nice things about everybody unless I mean it.

Quote by F. Murray Abraham about things

Maybe we should have a few laughs, loosen up things a little bit, help people think in a new way. But we're actors, and we're born to communicate.

Quote by F. Murray Abraham about things

The best thing is the discovery of the character as performed. That's the best part of the work. It's how it comes off the page.

Quote by F. Murray Abraham about things

The idea that you can make love and not war really is pretty neat. That thing in Korea, the thing in Israel - that's all over the world. There must be a new way of thinking.

Quote by F. Murray Abraham about things

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

Quote by Kevin Bacon about things

I mean the idea of this is that it's a good thing for the public to hear interviews like this and that there will be an inevitable amount of fewer interviews if people that the press talks to wind up thinking, well, it's not really a CBS...

Quote by Floyd Abrams about things

I really believe that a lawyer - no matter how good - if he or she is really worth their weight in salt, they will lose some cases because, after all, it is not really one of those secretive things that not everything is decided by who your lawyer...

Quote by Floyd Abrams about things

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

Quote by Francis Bacon about things

So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in a very protective way what those...

Quote by Floyd Abrams about things