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Mariella Frostrup Quotes

There are two ways of approaching your time on this planet: one is to sit around waiting for something to happen that will make sense of your existence, and the other is to get out there and find purpose for yourself.

Mariella Frostrup

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: british
Birth: November 12, 1962

Topics

Time Purpose Yourself Waiting Find

I always thought Woody Harrelson is quite a persuasive guy. He's the kind of guy who can call you up in the middle of the night and tell you, 'Let's all go get a donut!' And you're thinking, 'It's the middle of the night,' but somehow you still get up and go get a donut.

Jesse Eisenberg

Night Thinking Thought You Go Kind

There is a lot of talk now about metal detectors and gun control. Both are good things. But they are no more a solution than forks and spoons are a solution to world hunger.

Anna Quindlen

Good Good Things Control World Gun

It's true that it's within the realm of cultural politics that young people tend to work through political issues, which I think is good, although it's not going to solve the problems.

Angela Davis

Work Good Politics People Think

Doors open to you every time you get a different role. So, yeah, the research is my passion; that's why I keep doing it.

Michael Hogan

Passion Time Research Doors Doing

Growing up in New Orleans, when you're in seventh and eighth grade, and you're into music, and you're a dorky dude, you know, you listen to the entire Rush catalog and the entire Zeppelin catalog, and you go through these, like, phases of classic rock.

Steve Zissis

Music Growing Up You Growing Know

I was the token bumpkin. It became, 'Let's get that Clark guy. He's easy to get along with.'

Roy Clark

Easy Guy Along Get He Token

We hoped to get a TV show, and we almost did, but 'The State' beat us out for this MTV show. So because they were there, and 'SNL' and 'Kids in the Hall' were there, we thought, 'Let's go try to do what Python did, and instead, let's make movies.'

Jay Chandrasekhar

Thought Go Movies Try Out Beat

We consumers have to send a message every day of what we want and what we don't.

Diego Luna

Day Every Day Want Message Consumers

Every morning when I wake up, I am grateful and happy that I come to the film set. It is home.

Arjun Kapoor

Home Morning Grateful I Am Happy Up

After that his Majesty was beheaded, the Parliament for some years effected nothing either for the publick peace or tranquillity of the nation, or settling religion as they had formerly promised.

William Lilly

Peace Religion Nothing Nation Years

What is faith? If you believe something because you have evidence for it, or rational argument, that is not faith. So faith seems to be believing something despite the absence of evidence or rational argument for it.

Peter Singer

Faith Believe You Argument Believing

With Will Shakespeare writing your government's propaganda, you can't go wrong, can you?

Peter Hambleton

Government Writing You Wrong Go