Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they want a lot of it, and when they don't, they regard the whole thing as somewhat immoral.
We will see that our new attitude toward liquor has been given to us without any thought or effort on our part. It just comes! That is the miracle of it.
If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.
My deepest impulses are optimistic, an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect.
I film quite a bit of footage, then edit. Changes before your eyes, things you can do and things you can't. My attitude is always 'let it keep rolling.'
Global political conditions make a direct American intervention difficult, but President Reagan's messianic and visceral attitude toward the Nicaraguan revolution could mean it will happen as an act of desperation.
The attitude of the actor is his interpretation of what he reads, and the written word is what creates the role in the actor's mind, and I guess in reading the things that were given to me, I reacted as you guys saw me, you know.
I can't believe the pro-choicers attitude toward unborn children-to me it's the ultimate liberal cause, to defend those without a voice.
An attitude of philosophic doubt, of suspended judgment, is repugnant to the natural man. Belief is an independent joy to him.
Even when I'm playing someone named Fat Amy, I'm all about confidence and attitude.
Beauty is only skin deep. If you go after someone just because she's beautiful but don't have anything to talk about, it's going to get boring fast. You want to look beyond the surface and see if you can have fun or if you have anything in common with this person.
A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears.
People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.
Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.
A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases it will never pass into nothingness.
Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
Beauty is all very well at first sight but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
There is no definition of beauty, but when you can see someone's spirit coming through, something unexplainable, that's beautiful to me.
Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.