Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means... →
Cesare Pavese
Why are we in this mess, now facing the prospect of economic armageddon? It's because the prevailing characteristic has been greed, and it... →
Jeremy Paxman
The fact is, if a young man is naturally indolent, the spur of necessity will drive him but a very little way, while the having enough to live upon... →
James Payn
But, on the other hand, the occasional and precarious dripping of coppers has by no means a genial effect.
A great philosopher has stated that the worst evil of poverty is, that it makes folks ridiculous; by which, I hope, he only means that, as in the... →
A man with an invention on which he has spent his life, but has no means to get it developed for the good of humanity - or even patented for himself... →
I definitely in filmmaking more and more find writing and directing a means to harvest material for editing. It's all about editing.
Alexander Payne
'Independent' means one thing to me: It means that regardless of the source of financing, the director's voice is extremely present.... →
There's a bizarre insistence on how a story should be. 'The protagonist must be sympathetic!' they say. Whatever that means. I never... →
The way I was brought up by my parents and guided through my football life by the influences of various managers means that in some ways I am black... →
Stuart Pearce