Oliver $ Quotes
And how she looked at me like I could save her from everything bad in he world. This was my secret: she was the one who saved me
he wanted to do, to be, to feel- and could not; he wanted sense, he wanted purpose- in Freud's words, 'Work and Love'.
"Everyone is asleep. They've all been asleep for years. You seemed... awake." Alex is whispering now. He closes his eyes, opens them again. "I'm tired of sleeping."
Life shouldn't be about sitting around staring at frosted glass. Life should be lived and that's all there is to it.
I'd like to do a story about the medieval ages where in every scene you'd sort of feel that you were in the 12th century. That would be great to get that feeling.
Unfortunately, the truth is that people do go scot-free and it's unfair. A lot of the top drug people who have been arrested are also free.
After a decade in a club it's quite normal and necessary that you seek and take a new challenge.
Of course, success is a relative term. It can be something completely different from winning the German championship eight times or making millions.
His advice to me is basically to just love what you do and don't let the fear of failure stop you.
It's part of my game to occasionally send a message, one that may be unpopular to the outside world, but can be important for the team.
When you look at our programme for the next few weeks, you do not fancy a trip to the Oktoberfest.
When I make a new movie, I always get stuck with, "That's not an Oliver Stone film." But I don't know what to do about that except just move on.
After the 2006 World Cup, I knew that you don't always need success, success, success on the pitch.
Each year, the The U.S. Army & its contractors SHOOT, STAB, MUTILATE, & KILL more than TEN THOUSAND live animals in cruel training exercises.
You're sonically racist, Americans. You think we all sound the same, whereas I have definitely a mongrel accent.
You know that things are not going well when you lose the moral high ground to a TMZ reporter.
Every empire has to get sucked down the drain. As a British person, I know how it feels.
I don't know if there is some psychological thing of wanting to know where your doctor got his degree from before he comes into the medical room.
When you're doing stand-up, you want to stand onstage and, to the extent that you can, uncomplicatedly entertain.
One of my fantasies in my life has been that I was granted access with a camera to go back in time, and to film the actual campaign of Alexander crossing into India through Iran and Persia.
You can write jokes at any point of the day. Jokes are not that hard to write, or they shouldn't be when it is literally your job.
I'm British, so obviously I repress any powerful emotions of any kind in relation to anything.
I'm not the type who spends his free time in training camp playing with his Playstation or playing cards on trips. The other players thought it was odd: There he is, reading again.
I wouldn't like to see a chick of mine taking her clothes off and kissing a fellow on screen. And my girls must get very hurt when they see me doing it.
I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I'm a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history.
Here in America, people come out to see what they've known you to do. In England it's like everyone comes out to tell you exactly how well they think you're doing.
Stand-up, for me, is really more of an addiction, so you have to feed the beast whenever you can.
Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.
Everything in me feels fluttering and free, like I could take off from the ground at any second. Music, I think, he makes me feel like music.
The power of music, whether joyous or cathartic must steal on one unawares, come spontaneously as a blessing or a grace--
Trouble makes us one with every human being in the world - and unless we touch others, we're out of touch with life.
Running is a mental sport, more than anything else. You're only as good as your training, and your training is only as good as your thinking.
And then, just at that moment, when I'm no longer sure if I'm dreaming or awake or walking some valley in between where everything you wish for comes true, I feel the flutter of his lips on mine.
It was the kiss of a man who had waited years for the moment, and feared that it would never come again.
Everywhere he touches is fire. My whole body is burning up, the two of us becoming twin points of the same bright white flame.
