Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Richard E Grant: Cannibal
“Anthony Hopkins says you just keep acting. Do it all the time and eventually it will happen. He got his break, after all, by taking a role nobody else wanted. A cannibal!” —Richard E. Grant.
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Karren Brady: Work relentlessly
“I work relentlessly to achieve a business goal. I believe that is the single most important reason for my success. It may be 2am, I may be exhausted, but I keep working until the job is finished. It takes self-discipline and energy, but you won’t meet anyone successful who doesn’t have them both. The good…
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Spike Lee: Parents kill more dreams than anybody
“It has been my observation that parents kill more dreams than anybody.” —Spike Lee.
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Krysten Ritter: Target of gossip
“We all know what it feels like to be an outcast or a loner or to fall between the cracks. To be the target of gossip or people talking about you, or girls are ganging up on you. One minute, they’re your best friend; the next, they call you on three-way.” —Krysten Ritter.
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G K Chesterton: Essence of love
“It is the essence of love to be sensitive: it is a part of its doom, and anyone who objects to the one must certainly get rid of the other. This sensitiveness, rising to an almost morbid sensitiveness, was the mark of all great lovers like Dante and all great patriots like Chatham.” —G K…
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Paulo Coelho: Be a good person
“Be a good person, but don’t waste your time trying to prove it.” —Paulo Coelho.
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George Bernard Shaw: Extreme form of censorship
“Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.” —George Bernard Shaw.
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Marcus Aurelius: No impeding intentions or dispositions
“Our actions may be impeded . . . but there can be no impeding our intentions or dispositions. Because we can accommodate and adapt. The mind adapts and converts to its own purposes the obstacle to our acting.” —Marcus Aurelius.
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Marcus Aurelius: Choose not to be harmed
“Choose not to be harmed — and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed — and you haven’t been.” —Marcus Aurelius.
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Zoë Kravitz: Fashion
“Fashion is fun, and fashion is a form of art and self-expression. And I think it should have a wink-wink nature to it. For me, it’s about the way it makes you feel. If you want to feel sexy, you want to feel bright, you want to feel good. That’s what people are attracted to…
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Marcus Aurelius: Ridiculous thing
“It is a ridiculous thing for a man not to fly from his own badness, which is indeed possible, but to fly from other men’s badness, which is impossible.” —Marcus Aurelius.
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Marcus Aurelius: Best revenge
“What injures the hive, injures the bee. The best revenge is not to be like that.” —Marcus Aurelius.
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Rami Malek: Fear-inducing
“When you do something that people respond to, and then you start altering the blueprint for what worked, it’s pretty fear-inducing. But sometimes, you have to do that, in order to push the boundaries.” —Rami Malek.
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Bradley Cooper: Shot at a silver lining
“This is what I believe to be true. You have to do everything you can. You have to work your hardest. And if you do, if you stay positive, then you have a shot at a silver lining.” —Bradley Cooper.
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Jordan Peterson: Antithesis of opinionated
“What is your friend: the things you know, or the things you don’t know. First of all, there’s a lot more things you don’t know. And second, the things you don’t know is the birthplace of all your new knowledge! So if you make the things you don’t know your friend, rather than the things…
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Viggo Mortensen: Be kind
“Be kind. It’s worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them.” —Viggo Mortensen.
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Selma Blair: Pretty easy audience
“Bathroom humor, fart, and poo poo humor in movies gets a laugh. It’s a pretty easy audience, and that’s been around for ages.” —Selma Blair.
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Ed Latimore: In direct proportion
“How easily someone is offended is in direct proportion to how stupid they are.” —Ed Latimore.
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Brie Larson: Hard and exciting
“There is so much to be gained from adulthood! Feelings just become so much deeper. The feeling of sadness and loss is much deeper than when you were a kid, but the feelings of love and happiness have also so much more dimension when you get older… That is what’s so hard and exciting about…
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Alfonso Cuaron: When you strip hope from people
“When you strip hope from people, it leaves a void, and that void needs to be filled. And very likely, that void is going to be filled by an ideology… Hope and faith are so connected. Now, when ideology connects with faith, the ideology becomes an item of faith, not a point of discussion.” —Alfonso…
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Bette Midler: Worst part of success
“The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.” —Bette Midler.
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Jason Momoa: Technique
“Everything has technique to it. So if there’s something you wanna try out, I think it’s always good to get a trainer or listen to people who know what they’re doing.” —Jason Momoa.
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Olivia Colman: Equality and kindness
“I want everyone to know what they deserve in relationships: that they can demand equality and kindness. Because everyone will have a relationship at some point in their life. It’s what we all do, every day, and we need to know how to do it.” —Olivia Colman.
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Rosamund Pike: Hardest time in the spotlight
“I always think that the people who have the hardest time in the spotlight are the people who have unearned fame, like the girlfriends of people who are famous or people who become figures of attention, not through their own merit.” —Rosamund Pike.
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Emma Stone: Damn red velvet cupcake
“You’re a human being—you live once and life is wonderful, so eat the damn red velvet cupcake.” —Emma Stone.
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Kristin Armstrong: Know who you are
“Do the things you used to talk about doing but never did. Know when to let go and when to hold on tight. Stop rushing. Don’t be intimidated to say it like it is. Stop apologizing all the time. Learn to say no, so your yes has some oomph. Spend time with the friends who…
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Adam Lambert: Mind control
“There’s a certain amount of mind control that happens. Everybody is living in a world where they’re being controlled. They’re being told what to think, what to do, and what to eat.” —Adam Lambert.
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Billy Porter: Completely empowering and exhilarating
“When you’re doing what you love, it’s not exhausting at all, actually. It’s completely empowering and exhilarating.” —Billy Porter.
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C S Lewis: Immortals
“There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal… It is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit… Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses.” —C. S. Lewis,The Weight of Glory.
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Melody Thornton: Pieces of a puzzle
“We all fit like pieces of a puzzle. Everybody’s input and their journeys and where they’ve been help put that puzzle together.” – MELODY THORNTON.
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Ita Buttrose: Temporary setback
“Only a loser finds it impossible to accept a temporary setback. A winner asks why.” —Ita Buttrose.
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Simone Signoret: Against anyone he wronged
“He never bore a grudge against anyone he wronged.” —Simone Signoret.
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George Bernard Shaw: Differing tastes
“Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.” —George Bernard Shaw.
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Laurie Penny: New trophy wife in tech
“‘The new trophy wife in tech isn’t the hot young model. It’s the most brilliant, accomplished woman you can get to give up her career to have your kids.’ – a woman who works tech told me this two years ago and it still haunts me.” —Laurie Penny.
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C S Lewis: Other people’s souls
“What can you ever really know of other people’s souls — of their temptations, their opportunities, their struggles? One soul in the whole of creation you do know: and it is the only one whose fate is placed in your hands.” —C S Lewis.
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Thomas Carlyle: Not a matter for sorrow
“Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.” —Thomas Carlyle.
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Louis Kronenberger: Excellent time for outrage
“Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.” —Louis Kronenberger.
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Meg Ryan: Bad flue
“I heard that chivalry was dead, but I think it’s just got a bad flue.” —Meg Ryan.
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Jayalitha: Good and bad
“Good or bad, it depends on how you think about it. For a plan you can find the sides, the good and bad. Just like in every deed, good and bad are two sides of the same coin. It depends on their mind.” —Jayalitha.
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Sridevi: Authoritative quarters
“Acknowledgement and recognition from authoritative quarters are important to every artiste.” —Sridevi.
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Jennifer Lawrence: Silence encourages the tormentor
“Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere.” — Jennifer Lawrence.
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Bertolt Brecht: Dark times
“In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing About the dark times.” —Bertolt Brecht.
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Madhubala: Happiness comes first
“To be beautiful means a lot, but not everything. Happiness comes first.” —Madhubala.
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Hannah Arendt: Totalitarian rule
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.” ― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism.
