Max von Sydow Quotes

Hiroshima has become a metaphor not just for nuclear war but for war and destruction and violence toward civilians. It's not just the idea we should not use nuclear arms. We should not start another war because it's madness.

Max von Sydow

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: swedish
  • Birth: April 10, 1929

Topics

WarStartMadnessViolenceBecome

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.

Joan Didion

FearLookingThinkingFindWantSee

I had very few friends. We always ate dinner with our parents. We didn't want to go out. American adolescence was a lot wilder than I would have felt comfortable with.

Maya Lin

ParentsDinnerAmericanFriendsWant

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.

Angela Carter

HistoryExperienceYourselfWorld

My family did a lot of road trips across these continental United States when I was a kid. Twenty or so of us would caravan in four or five vehicles and hit every corner of the connected 48.

Sterling K. Brown

FamilyRoadConnectedKidCornerUs

I literally have meetings at eight o'clock in the morning, and I finish at nine o'clock at night. It sounds pathetic, but I don't even have time to go shopping.

Stella McCartney

MorningTimeShoppingNightMeetings

Each time I see a split infinitive, an inconsistent tense structure or the unnecessary use of the passive voice, I blister.

Sonia Sotomayor

TimeVoiceStructureSeeI SeeUse

Writing songs for other people was never the goal for me.

Skylar Grey

PeopleMeWritingGoalNeverSongs

There are specific things in our world that are incredibly dangerous. Wingsuit BASE jumping is the very, very top of that. Big alpine climbing objectives are maybe right below that. I've probably had 20 friends die - people who were pretty close to me. I would say about 18 of them were because of snow.

Tommy Caldwell

SnowPeopleMeWorldFriendsDie

I can do the old hand vibrato just fine, but I like attacking the strings.

Ritchie Blackmore

I CanHandOldStringsFineJust

Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love. If I do not love a person I am not moved to help him by proofs that he is in need; if I do love him, I wait for no proof of a special need to urge me to help him.

Roland Allen

LoveI AmMeWaitGrowHelp

I'd been very certain about not wanting to do the acting thing because of my father. I thought I'd always have the father-son thing of 'He got you the part.'

Domhnall Gleeson

FatherThoughtYouActingAlwaysHe

My sister is a good story of resiliency. She had a full ride at UC Davis, but she left school to go to the Philippines - and then she decided to go back to school in her 40s, which surprised me. She went to UC Berkeley, and I think she was one of two African Americans in her class at Haas. She's really impressive.

Chili Davis

GoodRideSchoolMeSisterThink

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