Orson Welles
Quotes
Books
Biography
Comments
A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.
Quote by Orson Welles
Click on the picture of
Orson Welles quote
you want to see a larger version.
Orson Welles Quotes
I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.
Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.
I passionately hate the idea of being with it I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me.
My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.
If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.
I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.
Best Quotes
I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.
You feel sometimes when you hear analysts and knowledgeable people talking about Iran that they fear so much about the survival of the regime, because deep down it's not a legitimate regime, it doesn't represent the will of the people, it's kind of morphed into kind of a military theocracy.
The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.
We are special because we've been united not by a common race or ethnicity. We're bound together by common values. That family is the most important institution in society. That almighty God is the source of all we have.
I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.
When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family.
There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.
Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.
Toggle navigation
internet
Poem
.com
Home
Poems
All Poems
Best Poems
Read Poem
New Poems
Poets
Quotes
Submit Poem