Famous Quotes & Sayings

Scott Ellis

My acting experience has been a benefit. What I learned from directors is how to listen to and talk with actors. I know how they think and what they need.

Joshua A. Norton

Now, therefore, the Directors of the company are hereby ordered to see that precautions are taken to make travel on said railroad perfectly safe by using a screw with at least twenty-four inches diameter.

Diane Paulus

As a director, I never feel that I have the answers.

Diane Kruger

A lot of directors idealize their leading ladies or turn them into these objects of sexuality and beauty.

Dennis Farina

Do whatever you're directed to do, and leave the rest of that technical stuff up to the director.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I feel that I don't have to wait around for good scripts anymore, that I can get things moving more quickly. I can ring up directors I like and say I'm keen to work with them, which is pretty great.

Aaron Eckhart

Directors, producers can make you look good or make you look bad.

Lesley Manville

I'd love it if doors open for me in America. There are directors I'd love to work with there. I'll always do theater, but I've got to pay the mortgage.

Taraji P. Henson

With TV, the pace is so fast, the scripts are coming at you, the directors are firing things at you, it's breathtaking.

Tommy Williams

From midnight to 4 a.m., we recorded about 2 inches of rain and over a half-inch more from then until 8 a.m..

Aaron Nida

She's only about 41/2 inches from the automatic.

Tom Brokaw

I had four compression fractures in my spine. They were repaired, but it cost me two inches of height.

Harry Stockman

Traveling will be very slippery and treacherous. We could have 3 to 6 inches of snow by the end of Friday.

Charles Spurgeon

Whenever you get one inch above the ground in your own esteem, you are that inch too high!

Bill Ryan

We're inches away from getting (the leases) completed.

John Gresiak

We're going with about three to six inches for the area, maybe more on the lower end of that range.

Bill Renner

We thought we had a mismatch at wide receiver and their cornerbacks because we're six inches taller, ... Peter can throw it deep.

Jim Fischer

We're probably going to get several more inches of rain on this side of the mountain.

Sabrina Harris

We ordered it, and it took a year to get here.

Mark Zauderer

They have been ordered to do what they should have done a long time ago, which is to process the club's application.

Neil Ingle

I wish there was something we could do to stop it, but it is zoned GB (general business), and it is perfectly in their right to put it there.

Theophilus London

I want to wear something that's not perfectly matching; there has to be something unorthodox about it. I want to create this mystery.

David Schwimmer

To be perfectly honest, I feel I have a duty to use my celebrity status in a positive way.

Megan Fox

I think it's perfectly acceptable not to run with cliques.

Bill Johnson

Fear is a thief. It robbed Peter of a perfectly good walk on water, & kept the other eleven in the boat.

Katherine Schwarzenegger

I don't do my hair very perfectly because I think it looks sexier when you don't have everything perfectly structured out.

John Drinkwater

Poe's saying that a long poem is a sequence of short ones is perfectly just.

Chad Brown

He was an equal-opportunity dotter. No one has played perfectly this season, so he spread the, I won't say love, but he spread his laser pointer around.

Aldous Huxley

Fortunately, however, birds don't understand pep talks. Not even St. Francis'. Just imagine, he went on, preaching sermons to perfectly good thrushes and goldfinches and chiff-chaffs! What presumption! Why couldn't he have kept his mouth shut and let the birds preach to him?

Alexandra Adornetto

If you're worried about safety, you might like to follow my example and put on that seat belt." "The what?" Xavier shook his head in disbelief. "You worry me," he muttered.

Mallory Ortberg

I have fun going on Twitter and the Internet. I feel safe and comfortable, and I wish everyone could feel that way.

Rep. Gunderson

Let's get them out there and see if they're interested. If they are, they can go through hunter's safety when they turn 12.

Jeff Dunn

Now we're here, we're safe and we're dry,

Charles R. Swindoll

The world has changed and it's going to keep changing, but God never changes; so we are safe when we cling to Him.

Dennis Prager

It does not matter what position you take on the Left, you are safe and secure. But that is not at all the case for positions that the Right take on. You are not safe and secure, so you travel with bodyguards

Demosthenes

Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

There is no way to peace along the way to safety. For peace must be dared. It is the great venture.

Frank Knight

I feel safe there, ... Ive never worried about it.

Tyra Banks

Screw being a singer! I wanna be the voice of my generation with my talk show.

Kevin Towers

No, I'm just superstitious. Very superstitious, ... The way I look at it, he's been successful. We've been successful. I've been successful. So why screw with it?

Nigel Lythgoe

It takes two to make a relationship, but only one to screw it up.

A. J. McLean

No one's a virgin, life screws us all!

David Krumholtz

There is only so much I can understand and not screw up.

Antony Starr

Families are the deepest, most screwed up relationships that we have.

C. S. Lewis

Pilate was merciful till it became risky.

C. S. Lewis

I now see that I spent most of my life in doing neither what I ought nor what I liked.

C. S. Lewis

For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity.

Jack Abramoff

Many of my e-mails have been maliciously taken out of context, another effort by those assaulting my career.

ASAP Ferg

Mixtapes are always small scale to me - they never get taken seriously, and they're always short-lived.

Ludwig von Mises

Without calculation, economic activity is impossible. Since under Socialism economic calculation is impossible, under Socialism there can be no economic activity in our sense of the word All economic change, therefore, would involve operations the value of which could neither be predicted beforehand nor ascertained after they had taken place. Everything would be a leap in the dark. Socialism is the renunciation of rational economy.

Ludwig von Mises

Public works are not accomplished by the miraculous power of a magic wand. They are paid for by funds taken away from the citizens.

Charles Spurgeon

No man can put on the robes of Christ’s righteousness till he has taken off his own.

Diane Kruger

It's taken me a long time to realize that my own life is far more interesting than any part I'll ever play.

Dennis Prager

Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?

Dennis Prager

People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of.

Dennis Prager

The Left has taken over the universities and, increasingly, high schools and elementary schools. It dominates the news and entertainment media. And many judges and courts are leftist - meaning that their decisions are guided by leftism more than by the law or the Constitution.

Dennis Potter

I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.

Dee Dee Myers

My job is to be a spokesman - the spokesman, I suppose - for the President, for the White House, to do the daily briefings, to manage the press corps in terms of travel, day-to-day needs, access, interviews, all those issues.

Earl Nightingale

When the days are too short, chances are you are living at your best.

Elizabeth Drew

Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversations.

Elizabeth Bowen

Knowledge of Rome must be physical, sweated into the system, worked up into the brain through the thinning shoe-leather. ... When it comes to knowing, the senses are more honest than the intelligence. Nothing is more real than the first wall you lean up against sobbing with exhaustion. Rome no more than beheld (that is, taken in through the eyes only) could still be a masterpiece in cardboard - the eye I suppose being of all the organs the most easily infatuated and then jaded and so tricked. Seeing is pleasure, but not knowledge.

Elizabeth Bowen

Someone soon to start on a journey is always a little holy.

Elinor Glyn

I don't know how it is the most unattractive creatures of every nation seem to be the ones who travel.

Jules Verne

Ah! Young people, travel if you can, and if you cannot - travel all the same!

Joss Stone

Basically, I was a freak show. This kid with this big old voice. I was a travelling freak.

Jon Johansen

Basically, if I have no intention of using a service then I won't bother reverse-engineering it.

George Wald

The only use for an atomic bomb is to keep somebody else from using one.

Ban Ki-moon

We are using resources as if we had two planets, not one. There can be no 'plan B' because there is no 'planet B.'

Aerin Lauder

I think every woman should be using a foundation, whether it's liquid or compact.

Tom Jenkinson

This current round of gigs, I'm just doing it using pure electronics.

Lucy Liu

When you work with chains or any kind of weapons, or just when you're using hand-to-hand combat, you are going to get hurt.

Alan Chambers

One of the many evils this world has to offer is the sin of homosexuality. Satan, the enemy is using people to further his agenda to destroy the Kingdom of God and as many souls as he can.

Bernard Meltzer

Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.

Nathan Thompson

I think using this lumber makes it very unique.