(1014 quotes found)
“I don't think more concentration is required for Robert De Niro to do what he does as for Jim Carrey to do what he does.”
Eddie Murphy
“Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never warmed up to me.”
Walter F. Mondale
“I wrote some three hundred pages, threw most of them out, and started over. The novel seemed to require a maturity and breadth of vision I didn't yet have. What I discovered was that this maturity and vision accrues gradually over the course of many days, months, years of struggling to be a better writer.”
John Dalton
“It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief”
Lionel Trilling
“There are very few jobs that actually require a penis or vagina. All other jobs should be open to everybody.”
Florynce R. Kennedy
“Maintaining order in the classrooms has never been easy [and] it is evident that the school setting requires some easing of the restrictions to which searches by public authorities are ordinarily subject.”
Byron R. White
“It's true that watching foreign films is labor-intensive - What they require, in short, is that you be in the mood”
Daphne Merkin
“Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn - exactly like its enemy, life. Thereby are life and flames so often compared.”
Otto Weininger
“God's great cosmic joke on the human race was requiring that men and women live together in marriage”
Mark Twain
“Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.”
Charles J. Givens