Richard Attenborough Quotes

My father thought Gandhi was a great man. I suppose subconsciously, consciously even, I was aware that I wanted to please him and Ma, so I thought doing something like 'Gandhi' would be phenomenal.

Richard Attenborough

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: August 29, 1923 - August 24, 2014

Topics

FatherGreatManThoughtGreat Man

I do have a strong sense of an order in the universe.

Joan Didion

StrongUniverseOrderSense

When you go to the theater, you are slipping out of your life into someone else's imaginary world.

Robert Krulwich

LifeWorldSomeoneYouGoOut

The cloud-powered smartphone and tablet, as productivity tools, are transforming the world around us along with the implied changes in how we work to be mobile and more social.

Steven Sinofsky

WorkWorldToolsMoreChangesUs

When you have an attorney giving you advice, it would be nice to know what their financial relationship is to the advice.

Lowell Bergman

RelationshipFinancialAdviceGiving

Conservation may be a sign of personal virtue, but it is not a sufficient basis for a sound, comprehensive energy policy.

Dick Cheney

EnergyPersonalVirtueSoundPolicy

Look at a book. A book is the right size to be a book. They're solar-powered. If you drop them, they keep on being a book. You can find your place in microseconds. Books are really good at being books, and no matter what happens, books will survive.

Douglas Adams

GoodSurviveBookYouLookFind

I went from having 50 listeners to 50 million listeners.

David Sedaris

MillionHavingListeners

We've been appropriating in art since Duchamp, and we've been appropriating in music since the first person was banging on drums.

David Shields

MusicArtPersonFirstBeenDrums

I remember the day we found the gene for the inter-species signaling molecule like it was yesterday. We got the gene, and we plugged it into a database. And we immediately saw that this gene was in an amazing number of species of bacteria. It was a huge moment of realization.

Bonnie Bassler

MomentDayAmazingRememberDatabase

I'm first and foremost an Irishman, by birth, by nature, by soul, but an American citizen through and through as well.

Pierce Brosnan

NatureSoulAmericanCitizenBirth

Between children and parents, there is a difficulty of seeing each other simply as people.

Susan Minot

ChildrenParentsPeopleSeeingOther

As the polarization in D.C. spreads, the people willing to come to the middle find less and less acceptance.

Pete Gallego

AcceptancePeopleFindMiddleCome

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