Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlie Chaplin

Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.

Charlie Chaplin

Have them all shot. I don't want any of my workers dissatisfied.

Charles Dickens

Please, sir, I want some more.

Charles Dickens

I want to escape from myself. For when I do start up and stare myself seedily in the face, as happens to be my case at present, my blankness is inconceivable--indescribable--my misery amazing.

Charles Spurgeon

Hundreds would never have known want if they had not first known waste.

Charles Spurgeon

If we want revivals, we must revive our reverence for the Word of God.

Alanis Morissette

I want to walk through life.

Alan Watts

If you want to stay in a state of illusion, stay in it. But you can always wake up.

Alan Rickman

I approach every part I'm asked to do and decide to do from exactly the same angle: who is this person, what does he want, how does he attempt to get it, and what happens to him when he doesn't get it, or if he does?

Djimon Hounsou

Until you are somewhat comfortable and confident and embrace who you are, as a person, you can't possibly love somebody else because you don't like yourself that much.

David Sedaris

Nobody pours stuffing like you do, my friend.

David Nail

Over the course of a day, you get to get a feel for where you're playing, so when you get out on stage, you already feel like you've had a bit of a bonding experience with them.

Earl Campbell

When you get to the end zone, act like you've been there before.

Carlos Delgado

If you hit, they're going to like you. If you don't hit, they're not going to like you.

Charles Lindbergh

It is the greatest shot of adrenaline to be doing what you have wanted to do so badly. You almost feel like you could fly without the plane.

Ben Crenshaw

As a golfer, you feel like you're perpetually on the rack [in foursomes]. Mentally, it's very difficult.

Charles Spurgeon

You are saved - seek to be like your Savior.

Eli Roth

It's very flattering to feel like you actually helped create a sub-genre.

Robin McLeavy

When you take a character seriously, there's more room for comedy because you're not aware of how absurd you are.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is no opinion so absurd that some philosopher will not express it

T. J. Miller

I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.

Michael Leunig

Einstein was a great advocate of the notion that good ideas look absurd at the beginning. Camus expressed a similar view.

Dennis Hastert

unless the federal government adopts New Orleans as its ward and pays all its bills for the next 20 years--an unlikely to absurd proposition--the place won't be rebuilt.

Stephan Pastis

It seems so absurd to get really mad with a cartoonist over a comic strip. It's sort of like getting in a fight with a circus clown outside your house. It's not going to end well.

John Major

The sight of allegedly sophisticated politicians parroting complete tripe trivialises and demeans government and it has to be stopped. It's played a significant part in public disillusionment with politics and has led to the absurd situation where more people vote for 'Strictly Come Dancing' than voted in the general election.

Antonin Scalia

This is so absurd that it has, to my knowledge, never been contemplated.

Kurt Braunohler

I think we get stuck in routines so easily that when an absurd moment in life seems to be there for no reason, it wakes you up out of your everyday pattern. You pull back and look at life a little bit wider because of that one weird thing you weren't expecting.