Whereas wine disorders the mental faculties, opium introduces amongst them the most exquisite order, legislation and harmony. Wine robs a man of self-possession; opium greatly invigorates it.
Thomas De Quincey
We call Japanese soldiers fanatics when they die rather than surrender, whereas American soldiers who do the same thing are called heroes
Robert Maynard Hutchins
A tranquil city of good laws, fine architecture, and clean streets is like a classroom of obedient dullards, or a field of gelded bulls - whereas a city of anarchy is a city of promise
Mark Helprin
A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad. . . . Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worse.
Albert Camus
Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself-like, for instance, he can`t find any clean socks
Jean Kerr
The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look like giant thumbs.
Dave Barry
As in life, your mind can be the hugest obstacle or tool, depending on how you choose to use it. And I find that a lot of people who are successful in life say, I can do this, and I will do this." Their minds don`t get in their way; whereas people who wak...
Hilary Swank
There`s a big difference between the National Book Awards and the Academy Awards. At the Academy Awards you can feel the greed and envy and ego. Whereas the National Book Awards are in New York.
Steve Martin
If you write a story about a soldier going AWOL and kidnapping a pregnant woman and finally shooting her in the head, it`s called searingly realistic, even though it`s never happened in the history of mankind. Whereas if you write about two people falling...
Richard Curtis
It`s much simpler to be tortured on camera or to be filmed losing your mind. Whereas a script that has characters who are honest, witty and genuine... is often much harder to act.
Ellen Page
I tell you, in films, one doesn`t really meet the audience. You don`t get the impact or spirit of your audience, whereas when you are out in the public, you do.`
Cary Grant
I`d hate to lose the character actress part of me, because, by God, the parts are much more interesting. As a black actress all I was offered in British film was the best friend role, whereas in TV I was offered a whole spectrum of parts. I`d love to be a...
Sophie Okonedo
It was a lot easier to hide behind the character of the sassy, sexy vixen, whereas this time, I did a lot more tapping into my own feelings, and allowing that to come through.
Jamie Luner
You always have to keep thinking: "Where am I going?" Whereas acting, you`re always thinking: "What am I doing?" You don`t want to know where you`re going, you want to be right where you are.
Andrew McCarthy
James Franco is Mr. Method, very intense. He scoured the globe for every single copy of the original story whereas I sat with a pint of Guinness and my script.
Sophia Myles
People have all these preconceptions about me. Whereas if you look at the roles, Henry Hill was the nicest guy in Goodfellas! I was a nice guy too in the comedy Heartbreakers. And I was a really sweet father to Johnny Depp in Blow!
Ray Liotta
I see that my girlfriends, already at 23, are thinking, `What career can I choose that will also suit having children?` And it is limiting. Whereas my male friends aren`t thinking that way. - Premiere magazine
Natalie Portman
I am messy. Not really really messy, but I`m not as neat as Tia. She`s so neat ! When I go in her closet she has all her pants in one place, her shirts in another, it`s all very tidy! Whereas I`m like `Whatever.` You look in my room and it looks neat enou...
Tamera Mowry
(On whether family life produces better comedy than bachelorhood) The truth is, the family is much more creatively nourishing because you`re playing on a full keyboard. Whereas, when you`re single, you`re just playing the upbeat jazzy tunes."
Jerry Seinfeld
British people don`t seem to ask each other out on dates. If someone asked you out they`re really going out on a limb, whereas in America it happens all the time. Someone will come up to you and ask you for dinner and you`ll say, "Sure!" It`s no big deal ...
Gwyneth Paltrow
These two men, how they like their women to be is so different. The way Wong [Karwai]sees beauty, or women related to beauty, it has to be that sensual, perfect thing, whereas Olivier [Assayas] is more interested in something more internal and modern. But...
Maggie Cheung
[on whether he resented being typed as a "horror star"] One always hears of actors complaining of being typed - if he`s young, he`s typed as a juvenile; if he`s handsome, he`s typed as a leading man. I was lucky. Whereas bootmakers have to spend millions ...
Boris Karloff
Then [when I was] about 40, the roles started slowing down. I started getting offers to play mothers and grandmothers. I`d say the cut-off point for leading ladies today is 35/40, whereas half the men in Hollywood get their start then. It`s a terrible dou...
Kathleen Turner
Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas married men have done most of the fighting and market work?
Alex Hittle