Famous Quotes & Sayings

Louis Malle

I didn't feel like going any further in this scene with the boy. He was not a professional actor, and if I had pushed the scene any further it would have destroyed the tone of the movie.

Drew Goddard

We've always idealized youth and then destroyed youth. That has happened since the beginning of time, and I'm fascinated by why we do that.

Charles Wald

should have destroyed the remainder of the aircraft, munitions and supplies that were in that tunnel.

Haley Barbour

Six thousand homes were destroyed in Camille, ... I suspect it's going to be higher.

Walt Miller

Most people, their lives have been pretty much destroyed by the time they get to us.

Igor Smirnov

Moldova destroyed this plan with its own hands by imposing an economic blockade.

George Crook

All the tribes tell the same story. They are surrounded on all sides, the game is destroyed or driven away; they are left to starve, and there remains but one thing for them to do - fight while they can.

John Chaney

We ran into the rifleman. They put it all together, and they just destroyed us. Everybody had a gun but us.

Charles Bukowski

You were destroyed by what you befriended.

Alan Greenspan

Whatever you tax you get less of.

Alan Autry

While it is true that we must seek value added industries like food processing plants and call center operations, we must do what is necessary to expand and develop our economic profile.

Adnan Badran

We want to strengthen the commercial, economic relationship,

David Suzuki

The current economic system is fundamentally flawed and inevitably destructive.

Stephen Leeb

We are probably on the verge of an economic recovery.

Zeng Peiyan

We are at the stage of economic development where we do not have the luxury to be wasteful,

Mary Farrell

We are at a moment here in economic time that things are really going remarkably well on virtually all fronts and that's why you see the market at all-time highs.

David Briggs

We're in a narrow range, moving around about 1 percent over the last three days, and it looks like the markets are waiting for some economic figures or waiting on oil because there's really no reason to push anything now.

Ed Asner

I will always have enough money to last the rest of my life...as long as I don't buy anything.

Charles Caleb Colton

The victims of ennui paralyze all the grosser feelings by excess, and torpify all the finer by disuse and inactivity. Disgusted with this world, and indifferent about another, they at last lay violent hands upon themselves, and assume no small credit for the sang froid with which they meet death. But, alas! such beings can scarcely be said to die, for they have never truly lived.

Charles Caleb Colton

Literature has her quacks no less than medicine, and they are divided into two classes; those who have erudition without genius, and those who have volubility without depth; we shall get second-hand sense from the one, and original nonsense from the other.

Charles Dickens

If I dropped a tear upon your hand, may it wither it up! If I spoke a gentle word in your hearing, may it deafen you! If I touched you with my lips, may the touch be poison to you! A curse upon this roof that gave me shelter! Sorrow and shame upon your head! Ruin upon all belonging to you!

Charles Dickens

Skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.

Charles Stross

I grew up on second hand bookshops and libraries.

Charles Spurgeon

I would rather lay my soul asoak in half a dozen verses [of the Bible] all day than rinse my hand in several chapters.

Charles Spurgeon

Faith has a saving connection with Christ. Christ is on the shore, so to speak, holding the rope, and as we lay hold of it with the hand of our confidence, He pulls us to shore; but all good works having no connection with Christ are drifted along down the gulf of fell despair.

Charles Spurgeon

There’s no shame about any honest calling; don’t be afraid of soiling your hands, there’s plenty of soap to be had.

Alan Watts

And it came to pass that in the hands of the ignorant, the words of the Bible were used to beat plowshares into swords

Douglas Kmiec

So judges are responsible for abiding by the morality in their own lives, but they are not responsible for imposing that morality in judicial decision-making.

David Rabe

Sometimes it's learning how the play wants to function rather than imposing something on it. For me, that's the thrill in directing.

Byron Dorgan

No one is taking about imposing new taxes on anyone,

Tracy Kidder

Painting the landscape was, in a sense, another means of exerting control, of imposing order on the disorderly.

Josh Keaton

I've played a lot of younger, more coming-of-age roles as well as roles that aren't such an imposing physical presence.

E. P. Thompson

There's nothing a professor likes better than imposing his opinion on as large a number of people as possible.

Randall Howard

There's been a credibility problem with management. They've conducted themselves in an arrogant, imposing and unilateral manner.

Chogyam Trungpa

You do not have to force yourself to do anything at all. There is a continual exchange, a continual dance. It is similar to the sun shining and plants growing. The sun has no desire to create the vegetation; plants simply react to sunlight and the situation develops naturally.

David Morrissey

Nothing is my guiltiest pleasure. I love it. I love doing it. I love planning to do it, I love loafing and pottering and chilling and daydreaming.

Phil Orlandella

There are (contingency) plans in place for strikes.

Bill Hogan

We still plan on sending out a notice,

Lori Murray

We started out planting 400 trees. They just seemed to do very, very well. We subsequently planted another 200 and then another 300 the third year.

Holly Holm

There's no single person on this planet that's worth more than the other. Know your worth. Be confident in yourself.

Jim Wilkinson

We're not going to sit here and say that all the plans are perfect.

Edward James Olmos

Chiapas is probably the main concern I have right now for the planet.

David Rockefeller

I hope the Guggenheim plan will be revived.