Acting Quote by John Hurt

“He could quite quickly become detached from the nuances of common human emotion. Particularly if he was engaged in some aspect of a scientific…

— Theresa Breslin

His contempt for humanity grew fiercer, and at last he came to realize that the world is made up mostly of fools and scoundrels.…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

He watched it with that strange interest in trivial things that we try to develop when things of high import make us afraid, or…

— Oscar Wilde

The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never…

— Aldous Huxley

If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real…

— Terry Pratchett

He was so excited by this little bit of intelligence that he might have gone off, perplexed, pondering for a long time. It was…

— Anne Rice

What a host of little incidents, all deep-buried in the past -- problems that had once been urgent, arguments that had once been keen,…

— James Hilton

“He has gotten very tired of everyone thinking the worst of him. He has decided to actively encourage them to do so. It is…

— Laini Taylor

“he was the most gifted English scientist of his age, but also the strangest. He suffered, in the words of one of his few…

— Bill Bryson

“He was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a lover he would have…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“After years of pretending at emotions, he'd grown to appreciate their mystery, their chaos and randomness. Sometimes they were predictable, one-dimensional, almost stupid -…

— Kim White

Nothing is more injurious to the character and to the intellect than the suppression of a generous emotion.

— John Jay Chapman