A.S. Neill Quotes

When a person goes into a relationship emotionally needy, they are not going to have discernment in choosing people.

How many times have I told you, don't get caught by the bad guys!

In sum, the purpose is to contest the popular view, because popular opinions are so frequently found to be untimely, misled (by propaganda), or plainly wrong.

You see only the beautiful things when you stand still. You only see things that you don't ordinarily notice. The birds are the prettiest things, I imagine.

A lot of children grow up in poverty with flawed parents, but their inner world is still as inherently filled with wonder and innocence as children who are kept away from the city's underbelly.

Those who succeed and do not push on to greater failure are the spiritual middle-classers.

Forgiveness isn't about condoning what has happened to you or someone else's actions against you.

Hammond is insisting SG-1 needs a sociopolitical nerd to offset our overwhelming coolness.

If something is as smart as you, do you treat it differently if it isn't a human?

I think that 'Elysium' the movie is unrealistic, with the space station and everything. I think 'Elysium' the metaphor is completely realistic: it's exactly where we're going.

I don't think I'll ever calm down. I'm afraid that's me. Honestly, I'll just take one massive big 'woof' and I shall be gone. Heart - gone!

The child was diseased at birth, stricken with a hereditary ill that only the most vital men are able to shake off. I mean poverty-the most deadly and prevalent of all diseases.

Very few cinematographers, other than the Europeans, know how to light women like they used to in the old days.

Failure is never quite so frightening as regret.

Where we're going, we won't need eyes to see.

In the temporary illumination of the headlights, the insects were scribbling out messages from God that we couldn't get.

Why is it that people think staying in a bad relationship is better than being single? Don't they know that being single is the first step to finding a great relationship?

Everything looked and sounded unreal. Nothing was what it is. That's what I wanted - to be alone with myself in another world where truth is untrue and life can hide from itself.

We all have human emotions that rob our lives.

The public is often right during the trends, but wrong at both ends

A lot of people got lost in Hollywood while trying to become a star. They lost themselves.

Time is purple / Just before night.

One of the biggest favors that you can do for yourself is to accept your loved ones for who they are, and not be constantly disappointed because they are not who you think they should be.

I took a plane from New York City to Los Angeles for an audition. I met all the people. After that, I was told to have another audition, but I didn't want to go there again.

Success is the process of having a wonderful experience going for, getting, and having what you want.

Adolescents are still children in that they can't yet tell the difference between make believe and fiction.

What beastly incidents our memories insist on cherishing, the ugly, and the disgusting; the beautiful things we have to keep diaries to remember.

I felt that we couldn't win the game. It was absolutely shocking.

Don't confuse brains with a bull market.

The stars are always up in the sky...then when it is perfectly black, they feel less vulnerable and out they come.

The Pentagon's lost entire countries.

Somewhere, a sparrow is singing in B minor.

I'm not big on Champagne, but I'd take along a bottle of Cristal to pop for when the boat comes to the rescue.

Hypnosis. You know, I'm not a big fan of that bark like a chicken, cluck like a dog stuff.

I was very slender and small. All my friends were on the team, so I had to make it too. I was a very aggressive player. I wanted to be one of the best, but I just ended up as one of the good ones.

If you go into a relationship expecting someone else to fill you up, you're doomed right off.

Who has the courage to set right those misperceptions that bring us love?

From the way that people have always talked about your heart being broken, it sort of seemed to be a one-time thing. Mine seemed to break all the time.

You cannot borrow half of who you are from someone else, yet people try to do it all of the time, they just call it a relationship!

I am so far from being a pessimist...on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at life.

Forgiveness really is so misunderstood, as well as the power it can release in an individual.

The Universe and Spirit do not understand limitations...PEOPLE invented limitations!

In the summer we graduated we flipped out completely, drinking beer, cruising in our cars and beating up each other. It was a crazy summer. That's when I started to be interested in girls.

Critics? I love every bone in their heads.

Wines are like women in that it's often the imperfections that fascinate.

When I was a kid I used to get fun out of my horrors.

I think the world of 'District 9' has a lot of race and oppression-based ideas that I would still like to explore in that world.

Inner success is the ongoing experience of love, happiness, fulfillment and well-being - the experience of joy in your everyday life.

When I was in my early 20s, I was quite into Japanese animation. It's like the same thing that I end up always saying which is, imagery based stuff is the thing that really gets me.

Every actor wants more offers, but I get enough and I do like to be busy.