Dennis Potter Quotes

Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word.

Dennis Potter

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: dramatist
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: May 17, 1935 - June 7, 1994

Topics

JumpWordIdealsAcrossPrinted

People will accomplish anything if they believe the goal is worth it - they are worth it and that they are capable of achieving it - and that's exactly what my 'Maximize Your Life' show will do.

Jillian Michaels

LifePeopleBelieveAccomplishGoal

People are suspicious of science. They see it as being responsible for problems like the degradation of our climate. There is also a strand in society that says physics is terribly hard.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

SciencePeopleSocietyProblemsSee

Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.

Andre Gide

BeautyTodayLoyaltyPastJoyMind

Sure, science involves trial and error. Scientists refine theories each day. But as they do, they help us grasp more clearly the wonders of the world and the universe.

Tony Snow

ScienceDayWorldUniverseHelpUs

It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.

Rollo May

HabitLostRunWayHumanFaster

That's what troubles me: I should like to suffer more for the expiation of my sins.

Louis XIV

MeMoreSufferLikeTroublesShould

I loved old movies. And I like imitating people.

Julia Garner

PeopleLovedMoviesOldLike

God wants to use you to make other people happy! And the happier you make others, the happier you will be because you reap what you sow.

Joyce Meyer

GodHappyPeopleYouWillOthers

Most people who've had a big hit movie like 'Paranormal Activity,' the next thing they say is, 'I want to make a $100 million movie.' I have no interest in making more expensive movies.

Jason Blum

PeopleSayWantMoviesMoreBig

Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

LifeFutureLiveForwardDirection

There used to be rather serious firewalls between the artist and the buying public - the gallery, the publisher. And technology demolishes that wall and basically says, 'Self-promote or die.' And that is a bad head for any sort of artist to be forced into.

Jonathan Franzen

TechnologyDieArtistBadWallHead

Why should unmarried women be discriminated against - unmarried men are not.

Dinah Shore

WomenMenWhyAgainstShould

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