Lends Quotes

You`ve got to realize that a Steve McQueen performance lends itself to monotony.

Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.

Singing in Gaelic is very, very natural to do. I think lends itself very much so to being sung.

To those who don`t want the truth about Kennedy`s assassination to become known, the very repetition of a charge lends it a certain credibility, since people have a tendency to believe that where there`s smoke, there`s fire.

(upon being awarded his second honorary Academy Award in 1979, an Oscar statuette for Lifetime Achievement, "for the full body of his work, for the unique achievements of his entire career and his lifetime of contribution to the art of film," presented by Cary Grant) Oh, dear friends, am I supposed to speak after that? Cary, my dear old friend for many a year - from the earliest years of either of us working in this country - thank you for that beautiful citation and the trouble you have taken to make it and for all the warm generosities in it. Mr. President and governors of the Academy, committee members, fellows, my very noble and approved good masters, my colleagues, my friends, my fellow students. In the great wealth, the great firmament of your nation`s generosities, this particular choice may be found by future generations to be a trifle eccentric, but the mere fact of it - the prodigal, pure, human kindness of it - must be seen as a beautiful star in the firmament which shines upon me at this moment, dazzling me a little, but filling me with warmth and the extraordinary elation, the euphoria that happens to so many of us at the first breath of the majestic glow of a new tomorrow. From the top of this moment, in the solace, in the kindly emotion that it is changing my soul and my heart at this moment, I thank you for this great gift which lends me such a very splendid part in this, your glorious occasion. Thank you.

So American culture is itself a hybrid and lends itself to use in other people`s hybrids.

I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory.

For example, Michael Mann`s film Collateral - there is certain kinds of stories that lend themselves to digital photography. Some things are very raw stories that digital photography kind of lends itself to.

Canada is a good country to be from. It has a gentler slower pace - it lends perspective.

And the fact that I liked to show off and be the center of attention really lends itself to figure skating very well.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.

For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty.

Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.

There are unknown forces in nature; when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us; she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect.

Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

Age, like distance lends a double charm.