Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Barks

I read some of my stories recently and thought, 'How in the hell did I get away with that?' I had some really raw cynicism in some of them.

C. S. Lewis

But he always licked to get visitors alone in the billiard room and tell them stories about a mysterious lady, a foreign royalty, with whom he had driven about London. 'A devilish temper she had,' he would say. 'But she was a dem fine woman, sir, a dem fine woman.

Charles Dickens

Marley was dead, to begin with ... This must be distintly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate.

Sandra Cisneros

One of my favorite writers is Hans Christian Anderson. His stories speak to the times.

Brent Spiner

Hollywood has more than its share of harsh and crewel stories. In fact, it's probably more the norm than the exception.

Bret Easton Ellis

Exploitation is a harsh word, I know that, but on a certain level, to me that is the central Hollywood story.

Diane Setterfield

Everybody has a story. It's like families. You might not know who they are, might have lost them, but they exist all the same. You might drift apart or you might turn your back on them, but you can't say you haven't got them. Same goes for stories.

Diane Setterfield

A birth is not really a beginning. Our lives at the start are not really our own but only the continuation of someone else's story.

Diane Setterfield

A story so cherished it has to be dressed in casualness to disguise its significance in case the listener turned out to be unsympathetic.

Agnes Repplier

the audience is the controlling factor in the actor's life. It is practically infallible, since there is no appeal from its verdict. It is a little like a supreme court composed of irresponsible minors.

David Sharp

When Shana Alexander interviewed me for Life magazine in 1952, she gave up after 4,000. At one time or another, I've worked for every studio in Hollywood, for almost every director with most of the actors and actresses.

David Denby

The greatest all-around American film actor is James Stewart.

David Niven

Actors don’t retire. They just get offered fewer roles.

Caitlin Fitzgerald

T.V.s weird because its both the greatest gig as an actor potentially because it can be all this work for all this time, but there are so many question marks at every stage of the process.

Buffalo Bill

Having secured my Indian actors, I started for Baltimore, where I organized my combination, and which was the largest troupe I had yet had on the road.

Bryan Callen

As an actor, you're never busy enough.

Bryan Brown

I wanted to be an actor, and when that day happened that was sort of like the end. Now let it take me.

Bryan Singer

I love Hugh Jackman. Love Hugh Jackman. He's the coolest. He's one of the coolest actors I've ever worked with, and I'll do anything with him.

Carlos Santana

Surrender your whole being to a note, and gravity disappears...wi th one chord

Cheri Huber

All you must do is accecpt all that is unaccecptable to you.

Bill Johnson

Faith is not the result of striving. It is the result of surrender.

Prem Rawal

Surrender to what is ultimate. Surrender to what you really are!

E. Stanley Jones

I have surrendered to God; therefore I surrender to nothing else.

Christopher Paolini

What is the worth of anything we do? The worth is in the act. Your worth halts when you surrender the will to change and experience life

David Platt

Surely the gospel evokes unconditional surrender of all that we are and all that we have to all that He is.

Neal A. Maxwell

Coming unto the Lord is not a negotiation, but a surrender.

Margot Asquith

There is nothing more perplexing in life than to know at what point you should surrender your intellect to your faith.