Quotes of: Alfred-hitchcock Keyword

The world appears rectilinear, but is in fact curvilinear - a literal truth in physics, and a metaphorical one in metaphysics.

Iain McGilchrist

Alfred: Susannah, you deserve to be happy.

Legends of the Fall

Officer: Do you have anything to say? Alfred Borden: Abracadabra.

The Prestige

The air soft as that of Seville in April, and so fragrant that it was delicious to breathe it.

Christopher Columbus

Nowhere more truly than in his mental capacities is man a part of nature.

Edward Thorndike

Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive.

James Lovelock

Work, look for peace and calm in work: you will find it nowhere else.

Dmitri Mendeleev

We don't regard any scientific theory as the absolute truth.

Kenneth R. Miller

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

Alexander Graham Bell

Our universities advocate fragmentation in their course systems.

Arthur Erickson

There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta.

William Osler

Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.

Hans Rosling

If you're going to be a superhero, can I be your sidekick?" -April "What?" -Grace "The Dynamic Duo!" -April "Um, I'm pretty sure sidekicks have to have super powers, too. -Grace "Oh Yeah... Okay, but you can always use an Alfred." April "My Alfred?" ...

The Lost Saint

Colonel Hugh Pickering: I'll have you know, Doolittle, that Mr. Higgins' intentions are entirely honorable! Alfred P. Doolittle: Oh, 'course they are, guv'nor. If I thought they wasn't, I'd ask fifty. Professor Henry Higgins: [shocked] You mean to sa...

My Fair Lady

I put it to the great man [Hitchcock], the key to fictitious terror is partition or containment: so long as the Bates Motel is sealed off from our world, we want to peer in, like at a scorpion enclosure. But a film that shows the world is a Bates Mot...

Cloud Atlas

Hitchcock is a big ask. I am playing someone significantly older than me and someone significantly bigger than me. The stuff I find very interesting is why certain physical things have come about. How can he be light on his feet when he is so big? Ho...

Toby Jones

Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.

Earl Nightingale

People in tough times - it doesn't mean they don't have a great attitude.

Joel Osteen

The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.

Carl Rogers

In art, as in science, reductionism does not trivialize our perception - of color, light, and perspective - but allows us to see each of these components in a new way.

Eric Kandel

The magic question is, 'What for?' But art is not for anything. Art is the ultimate goal.

William McDonough