Massive Quotes - Page 24

• Its always really surreal, being on a film set, but inside a beautiful, massive scene.

  Holliday Grainger

  Beautiful, Film, Scene

  "Holliday Grainger Interview THE BORGIAS; Updates on BEL AMI and JANE EYRE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 30, 2011.

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• Yeah, I mean, climbing's always been a massive hobby of mine up until, kind of, recent times when I've had family, but no, it's been a driving passion in my life and, uh, I've always wanted to climb the Matterhorn. It was the mountain that, sort of, inspired me to climb, as a youngster. So, it was great to be able to get to do it.

  Andy Serkis

  Passion, Mean, Climbing

  "Andy Serkis Interview – Talks THE HOBBIT, TINTIN, BURKE & HARE and SEX & DRUGS & ROCK & ROLL". Interview with Ron Messer, collider.com. May 16, 2010.

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• When a sailor overcomes crushing adversity, there's a massive sense of accomplishment.

  Abby Sunderland

  Crush, Adversity, Accomplishment

  Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.118, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I went to this massive co-ed school for the first time when I was 16. Everyone there had been together since elementary school, and I found it quite difficult, especially when I'd never stepped into a classroom with boys. So I started looking out in the community for a social outlet. I started getting involved in student films and community theater. Acting began as a hobby.

  Holland Roden

  School, Boys, Community

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• The period of financial distress is a gradual decline after the peak of a speculative bubble that precedes the final and massive panic and crash, driven by the insiders having exited but the sucker outsiders hanging on hoping for a revivial, but finally giving up in the final collapse.

  Charles P. Kindleberger

  Giving Up, Finals, Investing

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• A border--the perimeter of a single massive or stretched-out use of territory--forms the edge of an area of 'ordinary' city. Often borders are thought of as passive objects, or matter-of-factly just as edges. However, a border exerts an active influence.

  Jane Jacobs

  Cities, Territory, Matter

  Jane Jacobs (1989). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, Vintage

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• I'd have to say Steven Gerrard has been the biggest influence in my career so far. I watched him when I was younger and then to go and play and train with him every day is massive for me, and still is now.

  Jordan Henderson

  Play, Careers, Influence

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• As a kid, I was a huge fan of movies and acting. My mom was in the sort of community theater, and I always hung around down there, and I was a massive fan of everything I'm kind of involved in now. But fairly ordinary and cheeky.

  Simon Pegg

  Mom, Kids, Community

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• The need for comprehensive reform must not blind us to the urgency of addressing the massive debt that's already crushing our young people.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Crush, People, Needs

  "Sen. Warren Introduces Bill On Student Debt". "Here & Now" with Jeremy Hobson, www.wnyc.org. May 6, 2014.

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• The single most remarkable (and revealing) fact of the Obama presidency may very well be the lack of a single prosecution of Wall Street executives for the massive fraud that precipitated the 2008 financial crisis.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Wall, May, Facts

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• Democrats have a long history of utilizing the threat of a potential Ebola outbreak to request massive federal funds while attacking Republicans for expressing skepticism over their funding schemes.

  Aaron Klein

  Ebola, Long, Republican

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• Hope doesn't require a massive chain where heavy links of logic hold it together. A thin wire will do...just strong enough to get us through the night until the winds die down.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Strong, Night, Wind

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• It's been so long since I've really truly felt what it's like to live life without substances to help. Massive struggle that's natural to one's health, but with addiction in my blood I play the cards I was dealt.

  Macklemore

  Struggle, Live Life, Blood

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• I've always stood on one fact - that all over the world, there are only two things, the Establishment and the poor people. The poor people are a massive majority and across the world they are exploited in different kinds of ways. The Establishment depends on exploiting raw materials and the poor.

  Hugh Masekela

  Two, People, Majority

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• Why is JP Morgan getting so much heat? Maybe because it is a massive international crime syndicate.

  Matt Taibbi

  Heat, Crime, Syndicate

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• Every day, it seems, a new extreme weather catastrophe happens somewhere in America, and the medias all over it, profiling the ordinary folks wiped out by forest fires, droughts, floods, massive sinkholes, tornadoes.

  Jane Velez-Mitchell

  Fire, Weather, America

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• I am a world expert on how to organise tasks in a senseless order, totally unrelated to priority, and thus create a massive panic leading up to an important deadline.

  Lucy Hawking

  Order, Priorities, Important

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• I have a massive guilt thing about money.

  Chris Lilley

  Guilt

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Churches are tax exempt because they are supposed to provide a public good. To prove that good to the IRS, churches arent supposed to hoard their money. They are supposed to spend it on goods and services for the faithful. Under this pretense, the church has made massive investments in tax free real estate all over the world. And when it comes to labor costs, they are almost free.

  Lawrence Wright

  Real, Faithful, Church

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• Huge knots of sea-weed hung upon the jagged and pointed stones, trembling in every breath of wind; and the green ivy clung mournfully round the dark and ruined battlements. Behind it rose the ancient castle, its towers roofless, and its massive walls crumbling away, but telling us proudly of its own might and strength, as when, seven hundred years ago, it rang with the clash of arms, or resounded with the noise of feasting and revelry.

  Charles Dickens

  Weed, Nature, Wall

  Charles Dickens (2016). “Charles Dickens: The Complete Christmas Novels & Tales (Illustrated): 30 Classics in One Volume: A Christmas Carol, The Battle of Life, The Chimes, Oliver Twist, Tom Tiddler's Ground, The Holly-Tree, Doctor Marigold, The Pickwick Papers, Great Expectations and more”, p.3653, e-artnow

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• The rewards we get by being those weird guys going against the grain to me are way more massive than selling a million billion records. I like climbing mountains or going on undersea dives for whales and stuff like that.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Whales, Climbing, Guy

  Interview with Joseph Hooper, www.elle.com. April 15, 2009.

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• A sociosphere of contact, control, persuasion and dissuasion, of exhibitions of inhibitions in massive or homeopathic doses...: this is obscenity. All structures turned inside out and exhibited, all operations rendered visible. In America this goes all the way from the bewildering network of aerial telephone and electric wiresto the concrete multiplication of all the bodily functions in the home, the litany of ingredients on the tiniest can of food, the exhibition of income or IQ.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Home, America, Exhibitions

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• In a world of massive wealth and income inequality, Europe must support Greece’s efforts to build an economy which creates more jobs and income, not more unemployment and suffering.

  Bernie Sanders

  Jobs, Europe, Support

  "Greek referendum: No campaign storms to victory with 61.31% of the vote - as it happened" by Graeme Wearden and Julia Kollewe, www.theguardian.com. July 5, 2015.

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• I think during the Cold War in America at least, there was a division; there was the Soviet government and there were the oppressed people, who were not represented by this government. That was a massive oversimplification of what the true situation was there. There were certainly many people who were completely and fully alienated from the government.

  Joe Weisberg

  War, Thinking, Government

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I don't want to become more famous than what I am. I'm not interested in being in movies that are going to be shown all around the world and get a massive audience, so I'm interested in doing foreign movies as long as it stays an exceptional case and is exotic, but I don't want to go there [Hollywood].

  Audrey Tautou

  Long, Hollywood, Exotic

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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