George Santayana Quotes

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

George Santayana

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: philosopher
  • Nationality: spanish
  • Birth: December 16, 1863 - September 26, 1952

Topics

InspiredBeingAlmostBrief

I don't think about going back to the theater.

Angela Lansbury

ThinkBackGoingTheaterAbout

Playing the villain, bringing her to life, is the most fun because there really are no rules.

Angela Robinson

LifeFunVillainRulesPlayingHer

Feminism needs a political program because gender inequality has been fostered by political decisions.

Stephanie Coontz

DecisionsPoliticalGenderInequality

I'm not going to manage again. I'm going to work for a team someday. But it won't be managing.

Tony La Russa

WorkTeamGoingSomedayAgain

On tour, I'll get up at 5 p.m. and go to bed at 8 in the morning. With fishing, it's the exact opposite. Fishing is the only healthy thing I do. Touring is such a grind; it's the opposite of healthy.

Dean Ween

MorningFishingGrindGoHealthyUp

I mean, sometimes I hate interviews because I always feel like I sound stupid.

Aubrey Plaza

HateStupidFeelSometimesMean

Each production has certain circumstances that will bring you to a certain way of making it. It is not intentional, it is not an artistic decision, the way we make films, it is the way we address to our problems.

Wong Kar-wai

DecisionProblemsYouCircumstances

The great hinderance to the development of this continent has lain in the lack of capital.

William Graham Sumner

GreatDevelopmentCapitalContinent

I lived somebody else's life. It was never about me, it was really about him on every level.

Priscilla Presley

LifeMeNeverHimLivedLevel

My life is fair game for anybody. I spent an unhappy, penniless childhood in Brooklyn. I had to slug my way up in a town called Hollywood where people love to trample you to death. I don't relax because I don't know how. I don't want to know how. Life is too short to relax.

Susan Hayward

LifeLoveChildhoodDeathRelax

In order to be totally spontaneous, you can't be too obsessed with accuracy, but if you're inaccurate in a drawing, it will look fake, and when you act, it will sound fake. You have to find miraculously some proper balance between the two, but there's no formula.

Peter Falk

BalanceFakeDrawingYouLookFind

Hollywood have been in touch; they want to make a movie of my life.

Mark Roberts

LifeMy LifeWantHollywoodTouch

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