Fantastic Quotes - Page 6

• Looking back now on the whole sexual scene we can see that our species has remained much more loyal to its basic biological urges than we might at first imagine. Its primate sexual system with carnivore modifications has survived all the fantastic technological advances remarkably well.

  Desmond Morris

  Sex, Loyal, Might

  Desmond Morris (1986). “The illustrated naked ape: a zoologist's study of the human animal”, Crown Pub

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• I went to Kerala in India, to learn Ayurveda, which was fantastic.

  Leslie Caron

  Ayurveda, India

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• My mother and father were fantastic, very active. I find it difficult to say this, but I'm quite a loving person and I've always been loving to my friends. In the long run, that pays off. I'm very interested in other people, and if you are, they're interested in you.

  Boy George

  Mother, Running, Father

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• I didn't actually know what the protesters in the West really wanted. It was fantastic here, so much freedom, and that was what they were calling musty, middle-class, and fascistic, a bleak period. Bleak was what the GDR was, and it alone had adopted, almost unchanged, Nazi Germany's methods of intimidation and ideas about propaganda and the use of force.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Class, Ideas

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• Since everything is but an apparition, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter. Longchenpa Let's stuff our eyes with wonder, let's live as if we'd drop dead in ten seconds. Let's see the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

  Ray Bradbury

  Dream, Rest In Peace, Laughter

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• During the first period of our lives the greatest danger is not to take the risk. When once the risk has been taken, then the greatest danger is to risk too much. By not risking at first one turns aside and serves trivialities; in the second case, by risking too much, one turns aside to the fantastic and perhaps to presumption.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Taken, Risk, Too Much

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• I have never heard enough classical music to be able to enjoy it; & the simple truth is, I detest it. Not mildly, but will all my heart. To me an opera is the very climax & cap-stone of the absurd, the fantastic the unjustifiable. I hate the very name of opera - partly because of the nights of suffering I have endured in its presence, & partly because I want to love it and can't.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Hate, Humorous

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• I like the sensibility of Australian film a lot and the crews are fantastic. Great characters, wonderful people and no line between - I think in Hollywood they have this line between actors and crew a lot, and that just didn't exist, which I really appreciated.

  Barbara Hershey

  Character, Thinking, People

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• Making movies is difficult and you get disorientated sometimes - even when you're working with fantastic talent.

  Antonio Banderas

  Talent, Sometimes, Difficult

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• I noticed every time I spent a lot of time in the bathtub, I would just get fantastic realizations about myself, and they were so valuable and liberating.

  Leonard Orr

  Realization, Valuable, Bathtubs

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• The Constitution is more than literature, but as literature, it is primarily a work of the imagination. It imagined a country: fantastic. More fantastic still, it imagined a country full of people imagining themselves.

  Roger Rosenblatt

  Country, People, Imagination

  Roger Rosenblatt (1994). “The Man in the Water: Essays and Stories”, Random House

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• I think cat's are fantastic.

  Danielle Dax

  Cat, Thinking

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• Sometimes I have given my husband a manuscript to read that has turned out to have fantastic rave reviews and he'll tell me it is no good. Well, if I didn't know him as well as I know him I would be terribly depressed.

  Katherine Dunham

  Husband, Would Be, Sometimes

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• All the directors that I've had the opportunity to work with are fantastic.

  Will Friedle

  Opportunity, Directors

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• A fantastic actor in a scene that's just closed off will be good. But when working with a director who knows little tricks - correct music, slowly pushing in - that stunning performance will somehow become even better. I've always seen it as a symbiotic relationship.

  Matthew Gray Gubler

  Directors, Actors, Littles

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Julia Child wasn't afraid to have fun. She made fantastic food but knew how to have a good time and not be too stuck up about the kitchen space.

  Nadia Giosia

  Children, Fun, Space

  "World Chefs: No-nonsense food with a pinch of punk". Interview with Dorene Internicola, www.reuters.com. August 16, 2011.

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• On Fantastic Mr. Fox, I got used to working with animated storyboards as a way of planning for the shoot. We did a lot of sequences that way with this movie. Partly as a result of that, I decided to build more sets in order to do certain shots.

  Wes Anderson

  Order, Way, Foxes

  "Cannes 2012: Wes Anderson on Making 'Moonrise Kingdom' and His Cannes Debut". Interview with Gregg Kilday, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 15, 2012.

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• I would love to have a complete family. I'd love to do it all at once. I'd love to be able to give to my children what my parents were able to give to me. And if I'm blessed to be able to do that, fantastic. If I'm not, then life goes on. You have to do the best you can. I do think we have to bring the family back; I do.

  Michael Ealy

  Children, Blessed, Thinking

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• It's a very complicated issue, this fame thing - I was not really cut out for it. There are some really fantastic things about it, but it's difficult for a private person like myself.

  Edie Falco

  Cutting, Issues, Complicated

  Interview with June Thomas, www.slate.com. April 6, 2012.

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• I have a fantastic wife, and not only in terms of external beauty. Her priority and mine is our children. That is our choice.

  Luis Figo

  Children, Wife, Choices

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• I've never had to get a job as a waiter or anything. I've always been able to support myself in 'the biz.' Which is great. It's really fantastic to be able to say that, because I know it's hard to do.

  Paul Feig

  Jobs, Support, Able

  "Interview With Freaks And Geeks Creator Paul Feig (Part 1 Of 3)". Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. February 10, 2000.

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• I mean, I'm willing to do anything with Chris Chulack - he's one of my favorite directors I've ever worked with, and I just think he's a fantastic man, and a great creator, and a good friend.

  C. Thomas Howell

  Mean, Good Friend, Men

  "C. Thomas Howell on The Outsiders, blackface, and how Marlboros got him cast in E.T". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. February 13, 2013.

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• I love actors. I married one. OK, I married a fantastic one.

  Felicity Huffman

  Actors, Married

  "Hoffman, Witherspoon capture SAG Awards". www.today.com. January 30, 2006.

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• Cinema Paradiso' is a fantastic film, I love that.

  Freddie Highmore

  Cinema, Film

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• If we give people the ability to buy a lot more because they can store a lot more, for a company that creates TV shows and movies, that's fantastic.

  Bob Iger

  Tv Shows, People, Giving

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