"I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day."

Day, Fool, Order, World

36

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day."

Exlpore more Day quotes

"I've learned to relax more. Everybody feels pressure in what they do, maybe mine is just a little different because there doesn't seem to be enough hours in the day to accomplish what I want to."

Tom Cruise, American Actor

Day, Pressure, Relax, Want

"But one led to two, two led to four, four led to eight, until at the end it was about 85 a day - the doctors could not believe I was taking that much. And that was just the valium - I'm not talking about the other pills I went through."

Corey Haim, Canadian Actor

Day, Doctors, End, Talking

"Whenever I don't' have to wear makeup, it's a good day."

Cameron Diaz, American Actress

Day, Makeup

"I have never wanted to give up performing on stage, but one day the tours will be over."

Mick Jagger, English Musician

Day, Will

"You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you."

Arthur Miller, American Playwright

Day,

"A day without laughter is a day wasted."

Charlie Chaplin, English Actor

Day, Laughter

"She has good instincts, but wrong judgments. She'll rue the day."

David O. Selznick, American Producer

Day, Wrong

"After doing One Fine Day and playing a pediatrician on ER, I'll never have kids. I'm going to have a vasectomy."

George Clooney, American Actor

Day, Kids

"The hardest thing is trying not to correct everything on the Internet. It'd be night and day - wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong. So you just have to say, 'All right, I'll take it, bring it on.'"

George Clooney, American Actor

Day, Internet, Night, Right

"It was a show where you were given a quote out of current events and you had to identify who said it. I was reading eight newspapers a day and had compiled a file of about 300 quotes. I really had to do my research. The White House press didn't have to bone up on any of it."

June Lockhart, American Actress

Day, Events, Newspapers, Press

Explore more quotes by Peter Ustinov

"I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal."

Daughter

"To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal."

Awards

"If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue."

Today

"If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done."

Saying

"Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth."

Children

"Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious."

Funny

"Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well."

Duty

"The truth is an ambition which is beyond us."

Truth

"Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy."

Faith

"Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much."

Thought