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  • The BBC came to me and they wanted to adapt the book [Three Musketeers] again, in the straightforward way, and I said no to that. I didn't want to do that. But what I did want to do was have a real look at the adventure genre because I thought it was ripe for reinvention.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Adrian Hodges Quotes , Real Quotes , Book Quotes
  • What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously. A convention is a social convenience, as, for example, money ... but it is absurd to take money too seriously, to confuse it with real wealth ... In somewhat the same way, thoughts, ideas and words are "coins" for real things.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Real Quotes , Ideas Quotes
  • It is not a lack of real affection that scares me away again and again from marriage. Is it a fear of the comfortable life, of nice furniture, of dishonor that I burden myself with, or even the fear of becoming a contented bourgeois.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Real Quotes , Nice Quotes
  • When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain, which in fact it is, all things being particles of a real and rhythmic whole. We shall be able to communicate with one another instantly, irrespective of distance.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Nikola Tesla Quotes , Real Quotes , Distance Quotes
  • My net worth is the market value of holdings less the tax payable upon sale. The liability is just as real as the asset unless the value of the asset declines (ouch), the asset is given away (no comment), or I die with it. The latter course of action would appear to at least border on a Pyrrhic victory.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Warren Buffett Quotes , Real Quotes , Victory Quotes
  • Without total freedom, every perception, every objective regard, is twisted. It is only the man who is totally free that can look and understand immediately. Freedom implies really, doesn't it, the total emptying of the mind. To completely empty the whole content of the mind — that is real freedom.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes , Freedom Quotes , Real Quotes