C.D. Payne Quotes

Consider, if you will, the morning boner. What a metaphor of hope and renewal! How can anyone give way to despair when one’s groin greets each day with such a gala spectacle of physical optimism?

Then I would have an occasional cigarette and then I started back dipping. I started dipping last year. My family has asked me again to stop, and I'm trying my best to do that.

With the media, I could be quick and ugly and critical. I tend to wear my emotions on my sleeve.

That's why I'm very proud of being American. I'm proud to pay taxes. I pay a lot of taxes, but it sure beats the alternative.

I think that we all have something in common in that we have dreams. The thing about dreams is sometimes you get to live them out.

The soul is restored through union with God.

Uncorrupted man, with God's blessing, advances across the fields of the universe as though he were walking down a country lane.

For sure I would be a very emotional captain. A very hands-on captain.

I'm glad I haven't married - I crave excitement.

Every time we had a raid, I'd get a boyfriend out of it.

I went over before the British Open and played Valderrama thinking that I might make the team, might be a captain's pick. I made the effort to go over there.

Learning the art of painting is not an easy task. It takes a great deal of intelligence, keen analysis, study and practice.

I'm 42 now, what I would consider prime time.

True listening is obedient listening. To listen to God is to obey Him.

You just never know when you're living in a golden age.

If you can't laugh at yourself, then how can you laugh at anybody else? I think people see the human side of you when you do that.

The United States is dangerously close to being a plutocracy. A third of the private wealth is owned by less than 5 percent of the population.

The biggest fear I have is to die with regrets, and of course that will come true.

A pitfall of making a comedy with a studio-and it's also an American cultural thing-is that I get tired of being encouraged to go always for laughs.

I think cynicism lasts. Sentimentality ages, dates quickly.

If you have your movies so that everyone understands everything, I think that's probably not a very good movie.

I'm hoping one day I can make one really good film.

I don't want all of American cinema to be big cartoons that are just made to be digested by the entire world.

I definitely in filmmaking more and more find writing and directing a means to harvest material for editing. It's all about editing.

The actors are the greatest executors of tone in a film. They're the most important cinematic component.

Confession can be good for the soul, but it can exact a heavy toll on friendships.

These guys who keep on playing but aren't winning, you've got to sit them down and let them figure it out and perform a little gut-check on themselves.

I sometimes got distracted easily and allowed my mind to wander when I needed to be focused. It's quite subtle, really, and just being aware of it helps.

By 1980, when I came out of prison, The Sun did a campaign to stop putting vice girls in prison. We've talked about it ever since and nothing has been done about it.

Like I said in my election manifesto - why don't they legalise the whole thing and let people like me work?

It's been a rollercoaster life but it hasn't been boring.

I always seemed to fall in love with policemen.

I didn't hesitate to kiss my father in public. And that's how I tried to raise my children. We're physical.

We grew up with so much love in our family.

To be original one needs to learn the ideas of other painters in order to be different from them.

Departure from the literal aspect, rather than mechanical exactness, is the code of the true artist. However, departures are the result of studied intent rather than inability.

Art comes into being in that abstract interval between a thought and reality, and no one - not even the artist who created it - can remeasure the influences that caused it.

Not that money is a driving force. It's an honor to play for your country.

The pleasure derived from viewing the achievements of others, coupled with a true appreciation of nature, sharpens the desire to express pictorially.

I've just become more conscious about how much I do drink and how often I want to have a drink and things like that. I think being conscious of it will help me to control the urges.

The two-piece ball I switched to spun too much. One shot would go the distance I thought it should, then the next one would fall short, and then the next one would go long.

Vicars, MPS and lawyers were amont those who considered me to be the best hostess in London.

I don't read magazines much, and I have an awful time with books.

All is forgiven to kings and popes. History grants them immunity, even a full pardon, even when they admit their crimes and glory in them.

For example, I wouldn't hesitate to sit somebody down if he wasn't performing, even if he was the No. 1 player in the world. I've been sat down before.

In my thirties I was doing it, in my forties I was organizing it and now, unfortunately, I can only talk about it.

In the moment of making films, I want to share my observations of life, not of other films.

The small Hitlers are around us every day.

People are shuffling by in long coats, with shopping bags and takeout, smoking cigarettes and feigning laughter - filling up their lives with distractions to shut out the chaos.

Do you suppose the human race invented boredom to make the prospect of death more palatable?