Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Alda

I have a final word of advice to our students. If you work very, very hard, this is the kind of actor, writer and director you may turn out to be, and if you work extra hard, this is the kind of person you may turn out to be.

David Puttnam

There's always a miasma of misinformation emerging from the higher education sector as to which are the 'best' courses to take. My advice would always be to ignore the perceived wisdom and look for the most reliable evidence on the ground.

Byron Katie

all the advice you ever gave your partner is for you to hear

Bryce Courtenay

Never take advice from a donkey.

Cary Grant

If you want to be an actor, my advice is to learn your lines and don't bump into the other actors.

Simon Woodroffe

There are bound to be viewers wondering how she can dish out advice, ... But I think she is very ballsy and will come back. You learn very little from success, but you learn a great deal from failure. If I had a small business and wanted some advice, I would ask Rachel.

Gregg Laskoski

We strongly advise everyone to make sure they have a well-charged cell phone when they evacuate. But you should make sure that all the regular maintenance, all the stuff you tend to put off, is taken care of. You don't want to be calling for emergency road service during an evacuation because of a tire.

Jamie Dixon

We stressed getting off to a good start and being ready to go, but my advice didn't go very far.

Suzy Buchholtz

We're in a position where we have some advice to give. We're not counselors. We do a lot of advising. Sometimes, it takes an outsider to say, 'No.

Sir Scott

Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive

William Shakespeare

So may the outward shows be least themselves:The world is still deceived with ornament.

Jean Fontaine

It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver

Alan Arkin

I don't know why we have to put things in boxes of superlatives. That isolates them. Life is fluid, and the minute you start trying to put a line around something, it will deceive you and go away.

Walter Kirn

I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.

A. S. Byatt

Things are not what they seem.

Jean Giraudoux

Men don't deceive their wives unless they love them. When they love them most, they deceive them. It's a form of fidelity, their deceit.

Jules Renard

Haughty, silent faces should not deceive us: these are the timid ones

Gloria Allred

Gwen was not there to deceive anyone. She had the right to live honestly.

Charles Caleb Colton

If that marvellous microcosm, man, with all the costly cargo of his faculties and powers, were indeed a rich argosy, fitted out and freighted only for shipwreck and destruction, who amongst us that tolerate the present only from the hope of the future, who that have any aspirings of a high and intellectual nature about them, could be brought to submit to the disgusting mortifications of the voyage?

Charles Simmons

Live only for today, and you ruin tomorrow.

Alan Watts

What we see as death, empty space, or nothingness is only the trough between the crests of this endlessly waving ocean. It is all part of the illusion that there should seem to be something to be gained in the future, and that there is an urgent necessity to go on and on until we get it. Yet just as there is no time but the present, and no one except the all-and-everything, there is never anything to be gained—though the zest of the game is to pretend that there is.

Alan Watts

Don't hurry anything. Don't worry about the future. Don't worry about what progress you're making. Just be entirely content to be aware of what is.

Al Stewart

Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day.

Chogyam Trungpa

Humans are the only animals that try to dwell in the future. You don't have to purely live in the present situation without a plan, but the future plans you make can only be based on the aspects of the future that manifest within the present situation.

China Mieville

You can't see the future, there's no such thing. It's all bets. You'll never get the same answer from two seers. But that doesn't mean either of them's wrong.

David Miliband

...the science is getting worse faster than the politics is getting better

David Rakoff

In my brief glimpse of what is to come I realize how little I care to witness it. I have seen the future and I'm fairly relieved to say, it looks nothing like me.

Alan Moore

People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.

Alan Green

In the time of Mrs Thatcher the church, to give it its due, spoke out and was an enemy of the Conservative government.

Alan Greenspan

In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.

Alan Greenspan

The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.

Alan Greenspan

Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the productive members of a society to support a wide variety of welfare schemes. A substantial part of the confiscation is effected by taxation. But the welfare statists were quick to recognize that if they wished to retain political power, the amount of taxation had to be limited and they had to resort to programs of massive deficit spending, i.e., they had to borrow money,by issuing government bonds, to finance welfare expenditures on a large scale.

Alan Greenspan

We are in the midst of a once-in-a-century credit tsunami. Central banks and governments are being required to take unprecedented measures. Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders' equity are in a state of shocked disbelief.

Al Sharpton

We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

If we have any problems, it's always with the government of the United States.

Andy Troszok

We want the opportunity to work with the government on this.

Nancy Talanian

We want the local police to do what they were meant to do -- protect their citizens.

Jochen Zeitz

Unless the local community signs up, wildlife won't survive. And without wildlife, no one will visit.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

There are so many local nonprofits making a positive impact every day, and yet, oftentimes we don't hear enough about them or their needs.

Mary Mark

Make the most of your money. Use your local talent and try to have something for everyone's taste.

David Dunn

Since Sept. 11, the local police, our role has changed, ... Before, we were worrying about burglaries, thefts.

Ryan Julison

She wants to support her local tournaments. We're disappointed, but we understand.

Reuben Jr

We want to keep this project local. There are people locally who will invest.

Ricardo Garcia

We want to keep that money here, and we want to use local people.

Keith Cooper

We want to keep it local and we want to keep it Canadian.

John Curry

We are getting ripped off. We are not getting what we are paying for.

Kevin McHale

People aren't paying to see the Kevin McHale show, they're paying to see the cast of 'Glee.'

Charles Payne

I don't like paying taxes, same as everybody else.

Sandra King

When we see a possible discrepancy, we need to investigate to make sure the taxpayers are not paying for something that simply doesn't exist. It's our responsibility to investigate that discrepancy. It's our responsibility to the people, really.

Chris Sheridan

So far, we haven't had any trouble getting it, but we're paying 10 percent to 15 percent more for plywood,

Chris McKay

So, I got stuck reading for them and paying the bill.

Doug Martin

We want this thing killed. This is a joke, and the sad thing is, we're paying for it.

Kristin Armstrong

No matter who is watching or paying the paycheck, we are ultimately each our own boss.

Rick Savage

We are more than paying our own way toward sheriff services.

Philip Baggaley

I would expect, eventually, they will have to terminate the pension plan.

Anne McLellan

Quite truthfully, I have no idea (how much the pension is worth) because I have never contemplated retiring.

Judy Aydelott

Privatization is the worst idea to try to protect Social Security. It's nuts. We have to find ways to keep pensions secure, as well as Social Security.

Roger Toussaint

What they'd be saving on pensions is a pittance.

Gregg Shotwell

What struck me the most was he said he's going to try to keep Delphi pensions solvent. And I was struck that he would think that any of us would trust that.

John Jenkins

I'm just worried about pension and medical, ... when I do get ready to retire, it is set up for me.

Camryn Manheim

The universe is like a pension plan. It will match your investment.

John Lee Hooker

Groups are corporations now. They have pension plans. Musicians have saw the daylight.

Shia LaBeouf

You can't have bank holding companies acting as hedge funds. You can't have them taking a million-dollar pension plan for Joe Schmo the bus driver and treat it with the same risk appetite that you treat George Soros' pocket money. It's fundamentally ridiculous.