Douglas Sirk Quotes

But I always wanted my characters to be more than cyphers for the failings of their world. And I never had to look too hard to find a part of myself in them.

Douglas Sirk

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: director
  • Nationality: german
  • Birth: April 26, 1897 - January 14, 1987

Topics

MyselfWorldLookFindNeverHard

I'm politically inclined towards the left, but I don't like to be in anyone's gang; I'm a bit of a loose cannon.

Joanne Harris

GangLeftLooseLikeCannonAnyone

We live in a time when science is validating what humans have known throughout the ages: that compassion is not a luxury; it is a necessity for our well-being, resilience, and survival.

Joan Halifax

LiveScienceTimeCompassionLuxury

One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.

Robert Staughton Lynd

KnowledgeIgnoranceManSearchTake

I like pin-up girls. I'm more of a boy than a girl. I'm not a lesbian, though - not before a sambuca anyway.

Amy Winehouse

GirlBoyMoreLesbianLikeThan

Rules equal boredom, and I don't like that.

Simon Cowell

BoredomRulesEqualLike

I've caught myself watching MSNBC more and more, simply amazed at the nightly hate-fest against millions of Americans who don't see the world through the granny glasses of Keith Olbermann or any of the other radical liberals who host shows there.

Mike Gallagher

MyselfGlassesWorldWatchingSee

You always have a lot of time on the road, and you have to fill that time up with something.

Jason Isbell

TimeRoadYouAlwaysUpSomething

The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.

Chinua Achebe

ExperienceLearnNothingOnlyThing

We all think people deserve second chances. None of us are perfect.

Christine Quinn

PeopleThinkPerfectDeserveChances

Listen, I'm from Belfast. We're not polite people. And it's language. We're direct.

Paula Malcomson

PeopleLanguageListenDirectPolite

The more people talk about eating disorders, the more people get the real story about what they're like.

Scarlett Pomers

PeopleEatingStoryTalkMoreReal

It's an established fact. Some women can't stand being pregnant, getting big and bloated, and hauling around a giant stomach, and some women, for reasons probably understood by Darwin, love it.

Rich Cohen

LoveWomenStandBeing PregnantBig

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