S.J. Watson Quotes

There are few humanities that could surpass in discipline, in beauty, in emotional and aesthetic satisfaction, those humanities which are called mathematics, and the natural sciences.

Against the darkness outer God's light his likeness takes, And he from the mighty doubter The great believer makes.

You put a big bird in a small cage, it'll sing you a song

The biggest advantage to believing in God is you don't have to understand anything, no physics, no biology. I wanted to understand.

We tell our thoughts, like our children, to put on their hats and coats before they go out.

While I wouldn't object to work at a restaurant or a different place that sells decent-or-better food, I think that I can learn much more by becoming a coder.

I think I'm actually in denial that I'm famous, it only sinks in when people crowd in the streets. My friends treat me like a regular person, which is what I wanted.

I think it's so much sexier to be understated. It's more intriguing to be sexy in a less obvious way.

I stole a piece of the chess set on the first film. I took a piece of the treasure out of Bellatrix's vault on this film. And I've taken my wand and I've got my cloak.

We don't often talk about men being imprisoned by gender stereotypes but I can see that that they are and that when they are free, things will change for women as a natural consequence.

If anyone else played Hermione, it would actually kill me.

I'm a real Londoner. We have very grey weather in London, and I think it encourages a very eclectic and crazy fashion sense. I mix high-street stuff with more high-end fashion and vintage.

I think women are scared of feeling powerful and strong and brave sometimes.

I just try and surround myself, for the biggest proportion of time that I can, with people who make me feel normal, because constantly feeling abnormal is quite difficult.

It's a whole different kind of anxiety. But the great thing about doing a theatre job is that once the ball starts rolling you just have to go with it, it's inexorable.

You have to play the logic of a character.

I remember trying not to disrupt everyone else in the room, fumbling around trying to figure out how to use the medium with a beautiful model disrobed in front of me.

The managerial class has forced on us a public language that makes no sense

Jargon is making it increasingly hard to understand what a public figure is actually trying to say

I still have a lot of passion for music, but I would quit it tomorrow if that's what my family needed me to do. I'm sure I'd miss it, but it's a job.

I would rather have 100,000 fans for a lifetime than a million for a couple years.

I want to keep my fan base supplied with a steady chain of music.

I want to try and do as much as I can as an actor. So far I think I've done pretty well with being a minister's son. And now I know I'm pretty darn good at playing a woman too.

It's a sin problem, not a skin problem.

We cannot ignore the disparity in resources that continue to plague many of our school systems, especially those serving predominantly inner-city minority and impoverished children.

Social Security is a program that should be strengthened and preserved for future generations.

If fathers aren't growing up, I would challenge them to want to be a father that is present in the home, so that their kids have that identity.

The abuse of detainees in U.S. custody has severely undermined our Nation's position in the world.

Social Security makes up a much larger share of total retirement income for unmarried women and minorities than it does for married couples, unmarried men and whites.

I'm like an old dog, I hate to be run off from home

A reasonable probability is the only certainty.

About all some men accomplish in life is to send a son to Harvard.

It sounds like a cliche but I also learnt that you're not going to fall for the right person until you really love yourself and feel good about how you are.

If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid.

And I always keep cards people send me. I have a whole wall covered with them.

I'm not afraid of anything. My two favorite colors are lime green and hot pink. I mean, I really like pink. And I don't care who knows it. I'm already married, sooo...

After playing Ballybunion for the first time, a man would think that the game of golf originated here.

Muirfield without a wind is like a lady undressed. No challenge.

We lean on Faith; and some less wise have cried, "Behold the butterfly, the see that's cast!" Vain hopes that fall like flowers before the blast! What man can look on Death unterrified?

I'm a multidimensional person and that's the freedom of fashion: that you're able to reinvent yourself through how you dress and how you cut your hair or whatever.

I'M OFFENDED, because of the insulting comments I've seen that are not only insensitive but dismissive to the painful experiences of others.

Moral failure occurs when people lose focus and gradually drift off the path.

We are tapping into what the world wants: to be a part of change.

Knights of the spirit; warriors in the cause Of justice absolute 'twixt man and man.

I thought, If people are going to write about what I'm wearing, then I would wear young British designers who need the publicity.

I am the laughter of the new-born child On whose soft-breathing sleep an angel smiled.

I don't take anything for granted.

What I say goes. I'm hitting shots that I want to hit. I'm doing the things that I want to do. I play it my way.

Fra Lippo, we have learned from thee A lesson of humanity: To every mother's heart forlorn, In every house the Christ is born.

I am the spirit of the morning sea, I am the awakening and the glad surprise.