Sidney Poitier Quotes

Far as I can tell, I still have most of my hair, my gut is not hanging over my belt, and I still have all of my teeth.

Sidney Poitier

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 20, 1924

Topics

HairI CanTeethOverTellGut

I did tell security to make sure you stay and watch him pretty closely.

Joe Jackson

YouSecurityHimTellPrettyWatch

Very quickly a painting is turned into a facsimile of itself when one becomes so familiar with with it that one recognizes it without looking at it.

Robert Rauschenberg

PaintingLookingWithoutFamiliar

The majority people in this country are suffering because of our membership of the E.U.

Michael Gove

PeopleSufferingCountryMembership

Some people reckoned that I looked healthier when I was bigger but I had terrible skin and no energy.

Amy Winehouse

PeopleEnergySkinSome PeopleSome

I wasn't very ambitious. I really wanted to get married.

Amanda Eliasch

GetAmbitiousWantedGet Married

My grandfather was a shoemaker who worked in a shoe factory.

Stephen Pagliuca

GrandfatherShoeWhoFactoryWorked

I don't care what people think of me, unless they think I'm mean or something, but I don't care if they think I'm like someone else because I know I'm not - I'm a total weirdo. I'm not selling a dream; I'm not selling fame like it is some sort of fantastic thing. I'm just trying to sell music and get on with my real life.

Sia

LifeMusicPeopleMeThinkCare

I find it very, very hard. He was part of the fabric of my life. We were kids together, and teenagers. We spent the whole of our lives with each other because of our music.

Robin Gibb

LifeMusicTogetherMy LifeFind

I think the most useful thing you can do as a writer is to reconstruct real life with all its color, hardship, joy, and intrigue. If you're interested in people, you honor them best, I think, by making the fullest possible picture of them. Your subjects may - and from my experience probably will - protest your portrait of them.

Rosemary Mahoney

LifeBestExperienceJoyPeople

Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.

Jean Baudrillard

LanguageInnocenceLongYouNever

No baseness or cruelty of treason so deep or so tragic shall enter our human world, but that loyal love shall be able in due time to oppose to just that deed of treason its fitting deed of atonement.

Josiah Royce

LoveTimeWorldDeepTreasonHuman

Conventional wisdom is not always the best wisdom.

Doug Ducey

WisdomBestAlwaysConventional

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