Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carole Bouquet

I did get offers from Hollywood, but they were all scripts with monsters in them. If I had done them, I would have disappeared. I would have come back to France anyway, and I would have had to start all over again and lost a lot of time.

C. S. Lewis

Isn't it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and fierce Right, both on their toes and each terrified of the other? That's how we get things done.

Aaron Spelling

But it's true, when you see some television, you carry it with you. It's like 90210. Tell me what young shows were being done then... We were thrilled about the ratings around the world.

Charles Caleb Colton

When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they disapprove you, what good.

Charles Dickens

Nothing of what is nobly done is ever lost.

Richard G. Scott

While there are many things you can do to help a loved one in need, there are some things that must be done by the Lord.

Susan B. Anthony

Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.

Brian Wilson

I have stage fright every single concert I've ever done. I have at least four or five minutes of it. It's absolute living hell.

Brian Eno

Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't necessarily want to listen to it.

Hillary Clinton

I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda and the manipulation of the truth and the revision of history.

Marianne Moore

Revision is its own reward.

May Sarton

Revision is not going back and fussing around, but going forward into the process of creation

Katherine Paterson

I love revisions...We can't go back and revise our lives, but being allowed to go back and revise what we have written comes closest.

Sung Sohn

I'm not sure we will see a big revision in February; I won't be surprised if we do not.

Jonathan Franzen

The writer’s life is a life of revisions.

Laurent Fabius

This assumes an upward revision of the European Budget, which is precisely what Jacques Chirac refuses to do. On the contrary, he has demanded a reduction.

Terry Tempest Williams

Through revision, I enter the realm of the unspeakable and find the words that have eluded me.

Robin Ince

My life is constant revision but it's not revision, a lot of it is for the first time.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and no very arduous task to astonish them.

Dmitry Medvedev

I always say that modernization is not an abstract thing; its a very specific task.

Chinua Achebe

Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.

Elie Wiesel

The primary task of a Jew in turbulent times is to be Jewish.

Bruce Schneier

Something that looks like a protocol but does not accomplish a task is not a protocol—it’s a waste of time.

Brian Tracy

Follow up and follow through until the task is completed, the prize won.

Carl Jung

I could well imagine that I might have lived in former centuries and there encountered questions I was not yet able to answer; that I had been born again because I had not fulfilled the task given to me.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

While it is good that we seek to know the Holy One, it is probably not so good to presume that we ever complete the task.

Arlie Russell Hochschild

To televisionize any serious problem, the program directors face the task of making the message 'go down smooth' until the audience is delivered to the commercial.