Louis Gossett Quotes

I was at Woodstock. In the mud. ~ Louis Gossett Jr.

If a role isn't different, it's not worth doing. ~ Louis Gossett Jr.

We need to do whatever it takes to get our children together and pay attention to them, because that's our future. What's in the hearts and minds of our children is what's in our future. ~ Louis Gossett Jr.

My father's best friend, Georgie Terra, was an Italian guy. The children and the cousins and nieces and nephews were children of the Mafia. Those were the children he grew up with. If you want to go to a safe neighborhood, go to where the Mafia is. ~ Louis Gossett Jr.

I didn't know anything about acting, I didn't know anything about theater, but I was just an exceptional student at high school. I wanted to play ball; I'm going after a basketball scholarship and be a doctor. I got injured and my marks began to drop. ~ Louis Gossett Jr.

I can do more than anyone suspects. I pride myself on my versatility. It took 32 years of difficult parts, second leads, villains and juveniles. The Oscar changed the quality of the roles I was being offered. ~ Louis Gossett Jr.

I was invited to play with the New York Knicks. I was never drafted, but I was invited to the rookie camp. ~ Louis Gossett Jr.

I was always told that I'd have to do a movie with a white guy in order to get the money. That's the way it was. That made me feel that I should have chosen some other profession, so I could have gotten my just deserts. ~ Louis Gossett Jr.

[T]he energy we exert on war, I would like to pray … gets reverted back to a communal effort to save the planet. ~ Louis Gossett Jr.

I'm cancer-free. And I'm on antioxidants and acupuncture and a different diet. And I have a different outlook on life. I don't have resentment any more. It's wonderful. ~ Louis Gossett Jr.

When I'm offered a role, I look at what I think I can do with it. I look to see if I can project myself into it. ~ Louis Gossett Jr.

Designer Marc Jacobs ended his sixteen-year tenure at Louis Vuitton with a spring 2014 collection that celebrated fashion in its purest and least complicated form - as majestic, superficial beauty. ~ Robin Givhan

Vulnerable, like all men, to the temptations of arrogance, of which intellectual pride is the worst, he [the scientist] must nevertheless remain sincere and modest, if only because his studies constantly bring home to him that, compared with the gigantic aims of science, his own contribution, no matter how important, is only a drop in the ocean of truth. ~ Louis De Broglie

Aye, but a hand properly used can be as dangerous as a knife . . . And a man is not lynched for what he does with his hands. ~ Louis L'Amour

Something happens to your senses when you look on Louis. Behold Louis... ~ Anne Rice

Don't ever confuse motion with progress. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

A slap or a fat check is what it takes if you want to see all the passions that go beating about behind a face take a sudden tack. It's as beautiful as watching a sailing ship maneuvering in a stormy sea. The whole person keels over in the changed wind. ~ Louis Ferdinand Celine

Children don't know the law. Their parents slap them to teach them the law and protect them from pleasure. There's ~ Louis Ferdinand Celine

In politics it is necessary to take nothing tragically and everything seriously. ~ Louis Adolphe Thiers

Filled with a new sense of purpose, I downed half my coffee at one draught. It was good, strong stuff, the kind that Louis L'Amour used to say could float a horseshoe. Nobody ever drank weak coffee in his books. It was probably why they were so anxious to shoot people at high noon. ~ Kevin Hearne

The first experience can never be repeated. The first love, the first sun-rise, the first South Sea Island, are memories apart, and touched a virginity of sense. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

It is not enough, citizens, to have destroyed the factions, it is necessary now to repair the evil that they have done to the country. ~ Louis Antoine De Saint-Just

I am convinced, by repeated observation, that marbles, lime-stones, chalks, marls, clays, sand, and almost all terrestrial substances, wherever situated, are full of shells and other spoils of the ocean. ~ Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon

In 27 years doing this, I've seen a handful of truly great, masterful standup sets. One was Tig Notaro last night at Largo. ~ Louis C.K.

At the top of the Queen's Staircase at the Tuileries, there is a series of communicating chambers, crowded every day with clerks, secretaries, messengers, with army officers and purveyors, officials of the Commune and officers of the courts: with government couriers, booted and spurred, waiting for dispatches from the last room in the suite. Look down: outside there are cannon and files of soldiers. The room at the end was once the private office of Louis the Last. You cannot go in.
That room is now the office of the Committee of Public Safety. The Committee exists to supervise the Council of Ministers and to expedite its decisions. ~ Hilary Mantel

I grew up watching all these crazy movies, European movies and stuff, and I guess that I always laughed at things that were a little more offbeat. ~ Louis C.K.

Simple is hard. Easy is harder. Invisible is hardest. ~ Jean-Louis Gassee

Greed, in the end, fails even the greedy. ~ Cathryn Louis

Sometimes a moment of clarity shines so brightly, you have no choice but to walk into the light - or hide under the rug. ~ Cathryn Louis

There were several books on a shelf; one lay beside the tea things open, and Utterson was amazed to find it a copy of a pious work, for which Jekyll had several times expressed a great esteem, annotated, in his own hand with startling blasphemies. Next, ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

You have not succeeded in your experiments, that is all there is to it. ~ Louis Pasteur

I worked 22 years in the industry, and I noticed that operating systems get cancer with age. ~ Jean-Louis Gassee

For I think we may look upon our little private war with death somewhat in this light. If a man knows he will sooner or later be robbed upon a journey, he will have a bottle of the best in every inn, and look upon all his extravagances as so much gained upon thieves ... So every bit of brisk living, and above all when it is healthful, is just so much gained upon the wholesale filcher, death. We shall have the less in our pockets, the more in our stomachs, when he cries stand and deliver.
An Inland Voyage ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

I couldn't tear my eyes from the window, wanting to drink in as much of St. Louis as I could, knowing somewhere out there, one of those infinitesimally small lights was him. I wondered if he'd look up and see the planes crossing the sky like shooting stars, knowing one of those lights was me. ~ Leah Raeder

Louis Armstrong changed all the brass players around, but after Bird, all of the instruments had to change - drums, piano, bass, trombones, trumpets, saxophones, everything. ~ Cootie Williams

Who is the true friend of the people? Fascism is. Who has done the most for the working man? The USSR or Hitler? Hitler has ... Who has done the most for the small businessman? Not Thorez but Hitler! ~ Louis Ferdinand Celine

Civilization without regeneration, without a supernatural change of the heart, will never bring in a millennium, an effective and glorious rule of Jesus Christ. ~ Louis Berkhof

Dana raised her hand. "I learned about exaggeration," she said. "It was all my teacher ever talked about. We had like ten thousand tests on it, and the teacher would kill you if you didn't spell it right." "That's very good, Dana!" said Mrs. Jewls. "You learned your lesson well. ~ Louis Sachar

If I don't practice for a day, I know it. If I don't practice for two days, the critics know it. And if I don't practice for three days, the public knows it. ~ Louis Armstrong

To believe in immortality is one thing, but it is first needful to believe in life. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

So
Walter Arensberg,
Alfred Kreymborg,
Carl Sandburg,
Louis Untermeyer,
Eunice Tietjens,
Clara Shanafelt,
James Oppenheim,
Maxwell Bodenheim,
Richard Glaenzer,
Scharmel Iris,
Conrad Aiken,
I place your names here
So that you may live
If only as names,
Sinuous, mauve-colored names,
In the Juvenalia
Of my collected editions. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

Happiness and depression cannot blossom on the same vine. Some people affirm their woes and beg for sympathy. Others, unfortunately, cast gloom wherever they go. These poor souls were born sick and tired. ~ Louis Sullivan

From time immemorial, soups and broths have been the worldwide medium for utilizing what we call the kitchen byproducts or as the French call them, the 'dessertes de la table' (leftovers), or 'les parties interieures de la bete', such as head, tail, lights, liver, knuckles and feet. ~ Louis Pullig De Gouy

All the arts, to varying degrees, involve some kind of a compromise. This being so, how far need the radio dramatist go to meet the public without losing sight of himself and his own standards of value? ~ Louis MacNeice

He had hobbled down there that morning, ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

I started acting when I got a summer job at the Everyman Theater Company with the Neighborhood Youth Corps. ~ Robert Gossett

I done the best I could with what I had -- Joe Louis ~ Joe Louis

You'll be fine. You're 25. Feeling [unsure] and lost is part of your path. Don't avoid it. See what those feelings are showing you and use it. Take a breath. You'll be okay. Even if you don't feel okay all the time. ~ Louis C.K.

Christmas is such a trial,' said Mrs McCosh. 'I do most sincerely wish the Lord had been born at some other time. ~ Louis De Bernieres

Despite the fact that our brains are social organs, Western science studies each individual as a single, isolated organism rather than one embedded within the human community. This way of thinking leads us in the West to search for technical and abstract answers to human problems instead of looking at day-to-day human interactions ~ Louis Cozolino

I can't really cook, but the first dish I ever made was for my girlfriend, Eleanor. I made chicken breast wrapped in ham, homemade mashed potatoes, and gravy. ~ Louis Tomlinson

Even if there's a tiny tiny chance, isn't that worth going for it? ~ Louis Tomlinson

The residue of religion in my work appears as a modified transcendentalism, and the positivist scientific side of my thought appears as concreteness and realism. The effort to reconcile the two is at the core of all my poetry. ~ Louis Dudek

If you wish the pick of men and women, take a good bachelor and a good wife ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Even the tiniest poodle is lionhearted, ready to do anything to defend home, master, and mistress. ~ Louis Sabin

Posterity will one day laugh at the sublime foolishness of the modern materialistic philosophy. The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator. I pray while I am engaged at my work in the laboratory. ~ Louis Pasteur

It was high time, for I now began to be tortured with thirst. The glow of the sun from above, its thousandfold reflection from the waves, the sea-water that fell and dried upon me, caking my very lips with salt, combined to make my throat burn and my brain ache. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

If you go back to 2001, the market had two violent short covering rallies then, although I know the market didn't officially get going until March 2003. ~ Louis Navellier