Sidney Poitier Quotes

I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words - and to thereby spin, sidestep, circumvent, or bend a truth completely out of shape. To that extent, we are all liars on numerous occasions.

Sidney Poitier

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

TruthWordsLegalEasyMoralKnow

You know those bumpers in the two lanes when you go bowling? I go out there with two of them, metaphorically, every day.

Andrea Riseborough

DayYouEvery DayGoKnowOut

When I was young, I had one of those Yamaha drum machines, and I used to practice to that quite a bit, just to practice soloing and being in time and completing all my phrases.

John Otto

TimePracticeYoungDrumUsedJust

I'm not a great clothes shopper. I tend to get a lot from Chanel. But I do like to wear menswear. I love Martin Margiela, and I often take clothes from my boyfriend's closet.

Anna Mouglalis

LoveGreatClothesWearTakeGet

Vaccines save lives; fear endangers them. It's a simple message parents need to keep hearing.

Jeffrey Kluger

FearSimpleParentsNeedVaccines

In judging other people's work, particularly short stories, I have noticed how novice writers tell the readers everything about their characters in the first paragraphs, disclose their motives, reveal their recent activities and their future intentions.

Ruth Rendell

WorkFuturePeopleShortJudging

I think I streaked one time when I was 16, which was scary.

Mary Lambert

TimeThinkScaryI ThinkWhich

I am not a shock jock pastry chef. I don't create desserts using strange ingredients just for the sake of doing so, like so many of my colleagues in the industry.

Johnny Iuzzini

I AmChefColleaguesDoingCreate

Swimming is a confusing sport, because sometimes you do it for fun, and other times you do it to not die. And when I'm swimming, sometimes I'm not sure which one it is.

Demetri Martin

FunSwimmingDieYouSometimesSure

Space is going to be commonplace.

Christa McAuliffe

SpaceGoingCommonplace

If you've broken the eggs, you should make the omelette.

Anthony Eden

BrokenYouEggsMakeShould

If your life just falls apart early on, you can put it together again. It's the people who are always on the brink of crisis who don't hit bottom who are in trouble.

Anne Enright

LifeTogetherPeopleYouEarlyJust

There's a reason that all societies and cultures and small bands of humans engage in myth-making. Fundamentally, it is to help us understand ourselves.

Philipp Meyer

SmallHelpUnderstandReasonEngage

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