Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

I would sooner be holy than happy if the two things could be divorced. Were it possible for a man always to sorrow and yet to be pure, I would choose the sorrow if I might win the purity, for to be free from the power of sin, to be made to love holiness, is true happiness.

Charles Peguy

It is innocence that is full and experience that is empty. It is innocence that wins and experience that loses.

Dick Van Dyke

I have also heard and read various accounts of why they [Sheldon Leonard and Carl Reiner] liked me. My favorites? I wasn't too good-looking, I walked a little funny, and I was basically kind of average and ordinary. I guess my lack of perfection turned out to be a winning hand. Let that be a lesson for future generations.

Diane Lane

I take comfort that aging happens to everybody. It's part of life. Aging offers great lessons in dignity, since the indignity wins in the end. Yes, it bothers me when I have lines or puffiness or droops. But it connects me with the human race. Like weather bringing people together, aging brings people together.

Eduardo Galeano

The division of labor among nations is that some specialize in winning and others in losing.

Ben Jonson

Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes. For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.

Bas Rutten

I am there for the best interests of the fighters, I want them to win. If they don’t accept that, bye bye.

Eddie Vedder

If 'little George Dubya Bush' wins, we are going to apply for Canadian citizenship.

Ed McBain

I would like to win the Pulitzer Prize. I would like to win the Nobel Prize. I would like to win a Tony award for the Broadway musical I'm now working on. Aside from these, my aspirations are modest ones.

Edgar Mitchell

Our success and our understanding is that all beings are right inside, the deeper we go inside ourselves. There's a saying that Unity uses that I have always liked: "Let there be peace on earth, and let it begin with me." We all have to be a part of this. We have to be the initiator. We can't wait.

Elbert Hubbard

Everything comes too late for those who only wait.

Eddie Vedder

Wait a minute, yes, those are human heads.

Earl Nightingale

Don't wait for change. You change.

Earl Nightingale

Be happy now. Don’t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future.

Deepak Chopra

Desires are seeds waiting for their season to sprout. From a single seed of desire, whole forests grow.

Dr. Tsou

I have been waiting 25 years for this time.

Steve Adams

I don't know what's in it (investigative file). I'm waiting to see.

Alan Cohen

Why wait for your ship to come in when you are already on it?

Dennis Haysbert

Europeans have a different take [on nudity] than American actors do. They're not quite as hung up.

Debra Winger

I became an actor because I couldn't not.

Dominic Monaghan

I hope to be an actor and never retire.

Dito Montiel

To me, the screenplay only becomes the Bible of the film after the actors have been cast.

Aaron Eckhart

I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that's what I'm always looking for, a director that's going to help me go places I've never been before.

Aaron Eckhart

I'm an actor and it happened to go my way that day.

Baz Luhrmann

I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.

Ludwig von Mises

It is impossible to describe any human action if one does not refer to the meaning the actor sees in the stimulus as well as in the end his response is aiming at.

Aaron Paul

I've grown so much, not just as an actor, but as a human being.