“Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.” — Miguel de Cervantes Quote

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.

Every man is the son of his own works.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

He preaches well that lives well.

In 1889, I predict, the legislative stage of the Irish question will have arrived; and the union with England, which shall then have cursed Ireland for nine tenths of a century, will be repealed.

When I made my first film, I had hardly ever seen a camera before, and I was a young man when I arrived in Paris from the suburbs. At the time, I didn't talk much. I was very shy, so the bluff served me. I was telling people that I had no money, and that I knew how to make films, but I had no proof.

When I arrived, at first a lot of people were like, 'This kid is different.'

Two of the first plays I saw after I arrived in Britain were 'King Lear' in Liverpool, and 'Antony and Cleopatra' at Stratford. One was produced with hardly a backdrop and the other with gigantic scene changes. I was impressed by what connected the two: the words and their life beyond the stage.