Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Rickman

When I am asked about influences, I always say I bow down to Fred Astaire, because when you look at him dancing you never look at his extremities, do you? You look at his centre. What you never see is the hours of work that went into the routines, you just see the breathtaking spirit and freedom.

Alan Moore

Consciousness, unprovable by scientific standards, is forever, then, the impossible phantom in the predictable biologic machine, and your every thought a genuine supernatural event. Your every thought is a ghost, dancing.

Alain Robert

Life has to be dangerous.

Al Sharpton

James Brown lives, as long as someone steps out of their body and dances uncontrollably.

Al Pacino

All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.

Chita Rivera

Mother loved dance so much that she thought (ballerina) Margot Fonteyn should be the president.

Eddie Olczyk

We knew they were a dangerous team, we knew they were in the slide they have been in. We were in a similar slide early in the season.

Tom Rath

We know how to do this... there's kind of an elegant dance, as they say.

Bruce Bochy

We know how dangerous he is. And we don't want to make a mistake and find out.

John Nichols

Our media seem to be waiting for Fitzgerald to do all the work. What if during Watergate we left things up to Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox?

Robert Littell

For me, Fitzgerald was one of the great American writers of the last century; a wordsmith, a storyteller, a perfectionist.

Lord Byron

Still must I hear? - shall hoarse Fitzgerald bawl / His creaking couplets in a tavern hall, / And I not sing?

Tom Farnquist

The legend still seems to be growing. I'm surprised the Fitzgerald is still as popular as it is.

Charles Dickens

Battledore and shuttlecock's a wery good game, vhen you an't the shuttlecock and two lawyers the battledores, in which case it gets too exciting to be pleasant.

Charles Dickens

To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it.

Charles Stross

I'm not planning a kickstarter game. And I'm not really a game designer.

Alan Watts

The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever.

Alan Watts

Substances like LSD, which give away a secret about the nature of the social game - the human game and what underlies it - are potentially dangerous, of course, like any good thing is. Electricity is dangerous, fire is dangerous, cars are dangerous, planes are dangerous, but not so dangerous as driving on the freeway. The only way to handle danger is to face it. If you start getting frightened of it, then you make it worse. Because you project onto it all kinds of bogeys and threats which don't exist in it at all.

Alan Moore

They say that life's a game, & then they take the board away.

Alan Green

You don't score 64 goals in 86 games at the highest level without being able to score goals.

Al Alvarez

The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money.

Al Alvarez

Hold'em is a game of calculated aggression. If your cards are good enough for you to call a bet, they are good enough to raise with.

Charlie Chaplin

There is greatness in everyone.

Charles Sumner

The true greatness of nations is in those qualities which constitute the greatness of the individual.

Charles de Gaulle

Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.

Charles de Gaulle

France cannot be France without greatness.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.

Charles Caleb Colton

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

Charles Caleb Colton

Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.

Charles Dickens

The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away.

Alan Bennett

Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.

Al Sharpton

We're not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we're not willing to give them first chances.

Al Jourgensen

It certainly is gravy every day above ground right now, after kicking that heroin habit. I've been given a second chance in life, and I don't want to let a minute go by without enjoying it.

Al Jarreau

I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.

Bertrand Russell

This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the second chance were offered me.

Nick Whaley

We were better in the second game, so it's disappointing that we didn't play more relaxed.

Dick Wilcox

When we did shoot it, we shot it well. We got a lot of second shots.

Bob Harper

I don't want anyone to ever put himself or herself in a box of, "I lost my second chance!" Because life brings you ebbs and flows, and if you miss out on this second chance, guess what, you're going to get another one if you decide that you're ready to have one.

Charlton Heston

I intend to dedicate my remaining time as president of the NRA to ensure that the Second Amendment is safe from Al Gore and all those who threaten it.

Greg Smith

We spread things around pretty good, especially in the first quarter.

Daniel H. Wilson

If the knowledge is spread, it cannot be stamped out.

Joe Sims

We're begging. We're going after any organization that will give us money. We're spreading the word wide and far,

Brooke Astor

Money is like manure; it’s not worth a thing unless it’s spread around.

Tommy Tuberville

It is full-speed tackling, and we want to see them compete. But we're not going to go out there and do a lot of things that's going to get spread around.

Steve McClain

Give Vegas credit. They spread us out and executed.

Darryl Drake

That comes with time. When you've got a young quarterback, a new quarterback with the system, the more comfortable he gets, the more he'll start spreading it around.

Jane Goodall

The more we spread the word, the further it will go and more it will change!

Rick Sparks

True. I just wish they could spread it out a little more.

Leonid Hurwicz

My father was convinced, I think rightly, that if he stayed in Russia, he would have trouble with Lenin.

Joan Armatrading

So I've had lots of different bands over the years who have stayed with me for certain tours.

Linda Grant

When I was in my 20s in the 1970s, I read all of Jean Rhys. I have reread very little since because the first impressions were so powerful they have stayed with me.

Pat Buchanan

On an intellectual level, it stayed up on that level, ... It didn't get down to anything grisly, so I was delighted.

Cameron Bennerman

Short-range shots, you're going to know where it's going to come off, so I just stayed with it.

John Short

She never showed up, ... We stayed until 4 in the morning. We don't know why she didn't come.

Mitch Kapor

If only I'd stayed on the West Coast, I might have made something of myself.

Felix Hernandez

I threw it and it just stayed up there. It was an error.

Perry Florio

When I played, we all stayed in the same complex.