Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

We must scrunch or be scrunched.

Alan Parker

Making a film is so hard that if you don't have your main actors going along with the ride with the rest of the crew it can make your life very difficult.

Alan Rickman

Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over.

Alain Robert

I see myself as a climber and an activist.

Alan Arkin

I'm an actor. My life as an actor depends on who sends me what. I'm just taking the best stuff that I can find that's sent my way, regardless of how big or little the paycheck is. I don't want to work for scale anymore. I'm at a point now where, no matter how good something is, I'm not going to kill myself and end up in the hole.

Alan Arkin

I've always considered myself an actor, but I wasn't making a living as an actor.

Al Sharpton

It is time to bring down the volume and bring up the program.

Al Pacino

Whether he's doing great acting or not, you're seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor. What he does with it, that's something else, but he's got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that's why he has endured.

Al Pacino

Either I act or I die.

Alan Watts

It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.

Alan Perlis

In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.

Alan Perlis

In English every word can be verbed.

Chogyam Trungpa

Language should fulfill your individual existence as a wholesome human being... Language should be more than just getting by.

Dave Chappelle

The language you are about to hear... is disturbing.

David Mitchell

Maybe then you comprehend, speaking one language only is a prison!

David Crystal

The internet is an amazing medium for languages,

David Crystal

Language itself changes slowly but the internet has speeded up the process of those changes so you notice them more quickly.

Caitlin Thomas

resignation, perhaps the most stifling word in the language.

Bob McDonnell

There is no question that the minority party always makes a sport of going after the governor.

Tony McCoy

Racing may be a minority sport, but I wouldn't swap it for all the money in the world.

Dominic Modise

As a minority coach, you have to prove yourself. Things can change, but it's always important to remember where you come from.

William John Wills

Both camels are dead and our provisions are done.

Jim McManus

One of the things we always recommend is that there are provisions for the trustee to be replaced.

Richard Morris

It's probably down because of the provisions on those two UK projects.

John Walters

It will not take all of the provisions exactly, but it will take many of them and make them nationwide.

Charles Dickens

I'm awful dull, but I hope I've beat out something nigh the rights of this at last. And so GOD bless you, dear old Pip, old chap, GOD bless you!

David Shapiro

When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to assume that their president, hostile to the principles that formed the nation and determined to act with malice toward its inhabitants by suppressing their rights and enabling its enemies to prosper in their attempts to destroy it, must be confronted, a rational response for the nation is to encumber itself no more with such a president and reject his authority and the acolytes who carry out his wishes.

David McCullough

You have to have wisdom and knowledge as well as virtue to preserve your rights and liberties.

David Korten

In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of 'the Haves' over the human rights of 'the Have Nots' is inevitably called into serious question.

Catherine Ashton

In the EU you have half a billion people who share a common belief in democracy, in rights, in the kind of economic life we want.

Madeleine Albright

Our strategic dialogue with China can both protect American interests and uphold our principles, provided we are honest about our differences on human rights and other issues and provided we use a mix of targeted incentives and sanctions to narrow these differences.

Ai Weiwei

For all the tough talk about China during the presidential debates, Romney and Obama evaded any mention of China's suspect human rights record, corruption, and rule of law. By not tackling these controversial topics, the candidates are protecting a strategic partnership with China at the expense of essential human values and beliefs.

Ai Weiwei

Liberty is about our rights to question everything.

Bob Menendez

We should seek international support for our mutual objectives abroad, in promoting freedom, democracy, respect for human rights, and also the elimination of weapons of mass destruction.

Geoff Mulgan

Vigorous independent and critical media are indispensable in a democracy.

Bob Wagner

That one (cell) was particularly vigorous and long-lasting.

Caroline Kennedy

In those rare moments, when such a person comes along, we need to put aside our plans and reach for what we know is possible.

Denzel Washington

Raising the standard of the work, not complaining about somebody not voting.

DeForest Soaries

Voting is the foundational act that breathes life into the principle of the consent of the governed.

DeForest Soaries

I was the Secretary of State of New Jersey in November 2000. I paid careful attention to the challenges that stemmed from inadequate voting systems in various places.

DeForest Soaries

We have no basis for having a recall of any particular type of voting equipment because there are no standards. And when we do have standards, even these standards are required to be voluntary.

DeForest Soaries

When public access to voting is impaired or when public confidence in voting is diluted, democracy suffers and our freedom is less secure.

Bob Barr

Widespread use of online voting will create the potential for abuse that will make the problems inherent in e-voting pale in comparison.

Birch Bayh

I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young people by lowering the voting age, where you had young people that were old enough to die in Vietnam but not old enough to vote for their members of Congress that sent them there.

Dennis Prager

Our youth [with their overwhelming support of Obama] are voting for a permanent tax on their life