Top 100 Newman Quotes
#1. ALways be careful what you say. You can always say you're sorry, but you can never take back what you said.
F.B. Newman
#2. I grew up shopping from farm stands. Dad taught me how to smell a good cantaloupe and thump a watermelon for ripeness.
Nell Newman
#3. The impulse of modern art is the desire to destroy beauty.
Barnett Newman
#5. Mary became the window of heaven, for God through her poured the True Light upon the world; the
John Henry Newman
#6. Newman cast a despairing glance at his small store of fuel, but, not having the courage to say no-a word which in all his life he never had said at the right time, either to himself or anyone else-gave way to the proposed arrangement.
Charles Dickens
#7. It wasn't as though I really made a commitment to it; there wasn't anything else around. So I wasn't driven to become an actor.. it just seemed to be the thing that I managed to do best.
Paul Newman
#8. The characters I have the least in common with are the ones I have the greatest success with. The further a role is from my own experience, the more I try to deepen it.
Paul Newman
#9. It didn't occur to me to go into something that didn't have an ethical return for me.
Nell Newman
#10. William F. Buckley, Jr. does not speak so much as exhale, but he exhales polysyllabically, and the results are remarkable.
Edwin Newman
#11. Photography is 1% talent and 99% moving furniture.
Arnold Newman
#12. I think 'Cool Hand Luke' was probably the first movie in which I was aware of the writing as its own separate thing. It was that speech when the guy reads Paul Newman the riot act. The speech about going in the box.
Brian Helgeland
#13. Well, something is happening in Queensland that is not happening anywhere else.
Campbell Newman
#14. People like to do what they used to do after they've stopped being able to do it.
Paul Newman
#15. We are such spendthrifts with our lives, the trick of living is to slip on and off the planet with the least fuss you can muster. I'm not running for sainthood. I just happen to think that in life we need to be a little like the farmer, who puts back into the soil what he takes out.
Paul Newman
#16. Sweet Bird of Youth": "The big difference between people is not between the rich and the poor, the good and the evil. The biggest of all differences between people is between those who have had pleasure in love and those who haven't.
Paul Newman
#17. Don't be afraid of making mistakes or failing. You never really fail anyway unless you actually give up and quit!
John Newman
#18. we are looking for, and are ready to return home, I will open
W. D. Newman
#19. Prayer is to the spiritual life what the beating of the pulse and the drawing of the breath are to the life of the body.
John Henry Newman
#20. I was in a supermarket and I saw Paul Newman's face on salad dressing and spaghetti sauce ... I thought he was missing.
Bob Saget
#21. People become who they are. Even Beethoven became Beethoven.
Randy Newman
#22. Resisting a beautiful chocolate cake or a wonderful foie gras is as difficult as (the idea of) saying no to Paul Newman.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#23. If you have no enemies, you have no character.
Paul Newman
#24. Somehow I am necessary for God's purpose, as necessary in my place as an archangel in his.
John Henry Newman
#25. Faith is illuminative, not operative; it does not force obedience, though it increases responsibility; it heightens guilt, but it does not prevent sin. The will is the source of action.
John Henry Newman
#26. What happened in Queensland is that people are facing high unemployment relative to other states - 5.7 per cent when I last checked.
Campbell Newman
#28. Acting isn't really a creative profession. It's an interpretative one.
Paul Newman
#29. I really just can't watch myself. I see all the machinery at work and it just drives me nuts.
Paul Newman
#30. I didn't set out to do something different so much as do something that interested me. I wasn't trying to be avant-garde - that's being fashionable. You don't set out to revolutionize art, you make statements for yourself.
Arnold Newman
#31. Visualize success, but don't believe your eyes.
A.C. Newman
#32. Relevance, Wilde once explained, was a careless habit that should not be over-indulged.
Kim Newman
#33. I used to tell people my father was a plumber, because that would mean we had a normal life.
Nell Newman
#34. I don't think there's anything exceptional or noble in being philanthropic. It's the other attitude that confuses me.
Paul Newman
#35. There are two Newman's laws. The first one is "It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down." The second is "Just when things look darkest, they go black.
Paul Newman
#36. The most painful thing about mathematics is how far away you are from being able to use it after you have learned it.
James Newman
#37. In the simplest array of digits [Ramanujan] detected wonderful properties: congruences, symmetries and relationships which had escaped the notice of even the outstandingly gifted theoreticians.
James R Newman
#38. Language is in decline. Not only has eloquence departed but simple, direct speech as well, though pomposity and banality have not.
Edwin Newman
#39. I aspire to be like Paul Newman. He was a man's man, a lady's man, and the epitome of a philanthropist.
Trevor Donovan
#40. I think the tax cut is ridiculous but so am I.
Randy Newman
#41. If you look at any of the greats, from people like Paul Newman and Robert Redford to, you know, Brad Pitt - to get any of the kinds of roles like the ones that they've gotten, or just to be a part of any of the kinds of movies they've made, would be the end-all for me.
Channing Tatum
#42. I hope that my painting has the impact of giving someone, as it did me, the feeling of his own totality, of his own separateness, of his own individuality.
Barnett Newman
#43. I've learned by watching films that inspired me and people who inspired me like Robert Redford and Paul Newman. I love old school acting. I love subtlety, and I also love being spontaneous, and that's really what works for me.
Alex Pettyfer
#44. That's the thing about parents, I'm beginning to realize. You don't have to see them all that much to imitate them.
Leigh Newman
#45. Providence has delivered me of every worldly passion, save this one; the desire to acquire books, new or old books of any kind, whose charms I cannot persuade myself to resist.
John Henry Newman
#46. Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for.
John Henry Newman
#48. What I'm most pleased about is that there's no particular decline. The songs I wrote 40 years ago are no worse and no better - there's a consistency.
Randy Newman
#49. The easiest thing I do is assignment songs. They tell me what they need me to write. I can do that fairly quickly. Writing for an orchestra is difficult. Writing songs [on your own] is most difficult of all. Though [writing for] the orchestra is close.
Randy Newman
#50. The Alexander Technique helped a long-standing back problem and to get a good night's sleep after many years of tossing and turning.
Paul Newman
#51. My four friends were John Kerr, who became a star, Paul Newman, Jimmy Dean, and Jack Lemmon.
Dick Van Patten
#52. My background is in biology. Before getting into the family business, I worked at the Predatory Bird Research Group at the University of California at Santa Cruz, fundraising for them.
Nell Newman
#53. He left the room, and closeted himself in the dark, buzzing space where he raised his wasps and plotted the courses of heavenly bodies.
Kim Newman
#54. When coffee prices fall below production costs, farmers are often forced off their land, and they lose their homes, everything. With fair trade, farmers get a fair price for their harvest with a guaranteed minimum, so they can invest in their crops.
Nell Newman
#56. Satan is inconsistent. He persuades a man not to go to a synagogue on a cold morning; yet when the man does go, he follows him into it.
John Henry Newman
#57. Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.
Paul Newman
#58. There was always some germ of joy, some little paramecium of happiness wriggling around, waiting for a chance to get out.
Leigh Newman
#59. Love is always a species of insanity. If
Kim Newman
#60. Time was, I shrank from what was right, From fear of what was wrong; I would not brave the sacred fight, Because the foe was strong. But now I cast that finer sense And sorer shame aside; Such dread of sin was indolence, Such aim at heaven was pride. J. H. NEWMAN.
Mary W. Tileston
#61. For some players, luck itself is an art
Paul Newman
#62. I have great expectations for our company; pretzels were just the beginning.
Nell Newman
#63. Many Americans feel themselves inferior in the presence of anyone with an English accent, which is why an English accent has become fashionable in television commercials; it is thought to sound authoritative.
Edwin Newman
#64. It's all been a bad joke that just ran out of control. I got into food for fun but the business got a mind of its own. Now - my good Lord - look where it has gotten me. My products are on supermarket shelves, in cinemas, in the theater. And they say show business is odd.
Paul Newman
#65. Sometimes what I'm writing is more important to me than the rest of my life. It's more important to me that I'm writing well than anything else.
Randy Newman
#66. I once had dinner with Madonna and I wasn't nervous but within about a minute I found myself talking about underwear.
Randy Newman
#67. A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.
John Henry Newman
#68. I am not overlooking any mail. I'm looking at all of it. I even wrote back to the Viagra people.
Randy Newman
#69. Impaler,' she declared, 'I have no equal.
Kim Newman
#70. If you force extroverts to pause, says Newman, they'll do just as well as introverts at the numbers game.
Susan Cain
#71. Don't forget to bring that little blonde haired girl along. You know the one, love to watch her jump up and down.
Randy Newman
#72. The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
John Henry Newman
#73. I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: Go down again - I dwell among the people.
John Henry Newman
#74. A woman has but two loves in life: the one who broke her heart and the one she spends the rest of her life with.
- Carolyn Chase, former Broadcast Journalist and heroine Kate Theodore's mother
Liz Newman
#75. We need to stop the little girl," said Richard "pass me that shotgun.
Kim Newman
#76. We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything.
John Henry Newman
#77. You discover a lot of things on your feet and if you don't have any rehearsal, then anything that happens on the screen is by accident.
Paul Newman
#78. Gather together those things that change for the same reason, and separate those things that change for different reasons.
Sam Newman
#79. God has created me to do some definite service. He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission. I am a link in a chain, a bond of connection between persons. He has not created me for naught. I shall do good; I shall do His work.
John Henry Newman
#80. If you don't have enemies, you don't have character.
Paul Newman
#81. Our marriage works because we each carry clubs of equal weight and size.
Paul Newman
#82. You may help a lame dog over a stile but he is still a lame dog on the other side.
Ernest Newman
#83. God bless ABC. They are my knights in shining armor. I love their content. Just as a person, I'm a huge fan of 'Scandal,' I still love 'Grey's Anatomy,' and 'Resurrection' looks amazing.
Jaime Ray Newman
#84. But the truth is that L.A. was never entirely real anyway, as Steely Dan, Randy Newman, Warren Zevon, Larry David and Alan Ball all understood.
Barney Hoskyns
#85. Take advantage of life, before life takes advantage of you
Marcus Newman
#86. In England, in France, in no other country would a black man have a chance to get elected. There's no two ways about it. Our country [USA] has been better about dealing with immigration and people who are different from each other than any other country in the world, that I know of.
Randy Newman
#87. Examining the actual contents of my crying, I found a quailing sludge emotion, with a foul insecticide taste. If it was a peanut, you would spit it out. Yet I was indulging this toxic goo, giving it its head and letting it dictate my actions. People had every good reason to despise me.
Sandra Newman
#88. The idea that we are not going to look after the Great Barrier Reef, which is just a wonderful tourism resource that it can be just for one example - we are not going to look after it, we won't have tight environment regulation, is frankly just not true.
Campbell Newman
#89. There are ... scientific works - star catalogues, for example - which are not art; but the theoretical structures of Gauss, Einstein, or Maxwell are original, individual, "very personal" responses and expressions of exactly the same kind as the creative works of Beethoven or Dostoievski.
James R Newman
#90. So you wound up with Apollo. If he's sometimes hard to swallow. Use this.
Paul Newman
#91. How many writers are there ... who, breaking up their subject into details, destroy its life, and defraud us of the whole by their anxiety about the parts.
John Henry Newman
#92. I have vision and the rest of the world wears bifocals.
Paul Newman
#93. I sat backstage and had a beer with Richard Chamberlain, Paul Newman, and Princess Grace.
Christopher Atkins
#94. I started my career giving a clinic in bad acting in the film, "The Silver Chalice," and now I'm playing a crusty old man who's an animated automobile [in "Cars"]. That's a creative arc for you, isn't it?
Paul Newman
#95. Paul Newman's half Jewishand Florence Henderson's half, tooPut them together,What a fine looking Jew!
Adam Sandler
#96. Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
John Henry Newman
#97. Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.
Arnold Newman
#98. In racing, the fastest person wins. It is very simple.
Paul Newman
#99. The expression of a man's face is commonly a help to his thoughts, or glossary on his speech; but the countenance of Newman Noggs, in his ordinary moods, was a problem which no stretch of ingenuity could solve.
Charles Dickens
#100. You can't really appreciate anonymity until you've lost it. People say that's sour grapes, but it really isn't To be able to walk down the street without people paying attention to you is a real blessing and you lose it when you become an actor.
Paul Newman
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