Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlie Chaplin

The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.

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.

William Steig

When I was an adolescent, Tahiti was a paradise. I made up my mind to settle there someday. I was going to be a seaman like Melville, but the Great Depression put me to work as a cartoonist to support the family.

David Sedaris

The humor section is the last place an author wants to be. They put your stuff next to collections of Cathy cartoons.

Nick Park

My dream was to draw for 'The Beano.' When I was 10 years old, I started drawing cartoon strips with 'The Beano' in mind. I lived in that world. You own a comic, it's yours and adults don't understand it. You could pile them up under the bed, and if you were off school ill, you'd go through them all.

Tim Ritchey

We're not going to put the cart before the horse. We'll nominate him to a lot of things between now and the end of the year, but our focus is getting him back into a routine and then a work schedule.

Benedict Cumberbatch

[While voicing cartoons] you have to lose your sanity and inhibitions and any kind of dignity and just throw yourself around a bit.

Tyga

Sour Patch, Swedish Fish. I love candy, man. I can't go without candy. And when I'm recording, I always have a TV on with cartoons - on mute, though. When I'm recording, I like to look at the TV now and then and see some crazy, wacky stuff. When you're thinking creative, it just keeps you creative. Everybody got their way of making music.

Flemming Rose

We would run these cartoons the same day as they would publish them.

Al Yankovic

A lot of my cartoon voices are basically just variations on my natural voice.

Brady Corbet

I did all sorts of cartoons and stuff. And every once in a while I still do. It's rare, but it happens.

Josh McRoberts

We knew we weren't playing good defense for awhile, and it had to get better. We weren't containing people, and we weren't relying on each other.

Sarah Marshall

It is going to take a team effort, not only worrying about shutting down Davenport but also containing those guards. We will have to work on that.

Vince Carter

I think we did a good job of containing him, but he stepped up. He didn't score a lot of points, but he made shots and got rebounds that were big for them.

Elaine Makatura

We'll continue vacuuming the product and containing the booms throughout the night.

Leonard Hamilton

That was what the players were saying - 'We have to get stops,' because they were kind of having their way with us there for a little while. So, they just buckled down, and we started switching everything. ... We just put a smaller lineup out there on the floor and switched everything and hoped that we could do a better job containing them.

Travis Sysko

Nick Flannery had a nice fourth quarter. We had a tough time containing him. We had too many turnovers down the stretch and they made their free throws.

Jason Hunter

We stayed poised in some tight situations. We swarmed to the football and we did a good job of containing and tackling.

Dan Sylvester

We played 3-2 (zone) and man, but we did a better job of picking up their 3-pointer shooters. We just did a better job of containing them.

Eric Nicoli

We are seeing progress and we are at least containing piracy.

Jess Walter

Ultimately if you're a journalist, one day you're writing about figure skating, one day a political debate. I loved that about reporting. I like throwing my energies into various corners of the world.

Estelle

The people who have the strongest opinion about everything have never left their city, their town, haven't left their 'hood, haven't left their area, their corner of the world. They don't read. They've never left their house.

Talen Singer

We are looking to turn the corner this year and come out of a losing slump.

Mike Bair

There are customers from every corner of the globe.

Madeline Albright

There is no question that Yugoslavia has turned a corner and is moving in a positive direction toward Europe and democracy.

Robert Gallucci

There is no other country on Earth that I know of that is exporting ballistic missiles the way North Korea is. They've cornered the market.

Neil Peart

Racetracks are designed to make it as difficult as possible to get around that corner fast. And some ramps, by necessity, are that way, too.

Craig Thompson

We're going to reach all four corners of the country. We're going to be able to follow Mountain West sports the way no one else has been able to follow Mountain West sports before.

Rick Steves

What little history we've got in this rugged little corner of ours, we want to treasure. In Europe, they don't bulldoze things thoughtlessly. They preserve them.

Charlie Chaplin

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

Charles Caleb Colton

Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Courage is like the diamond,--very brilliant; not changed by fire, capable of high polish, but except for the purpose of cutting hard bodies useless.

Charles Stanley

When God speaks, oftentimes His voice will call for an act of courage on our part.

Gloria Hunniford

Ultimately, I really want it to be a tribute to Caron and her extraordinary courage throughout the whole thing,

David Seabury

Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

David McCullough

Washington was a man of exceptional, almost excessive self-command, rarely permitting himself any show of discouragement or despair.

David McCullough

The first of all qualities of a general is courage.

Simon Deng

The people who will walk to Washington, D.C., are here to tell the world about courage, a word the United Nations has been unable to pronounce.

David Hockney

It's time to debate images, especially when someone's going to prison for downloading them.

Bill Nye

The debate [in Undeniable] was nominally about creationism as a "viable" explanation for what we observe around us. For my side, the debate went very well; I'm not sure what I would change, although I can imagine shortening my answers during the rebuttals, perhaps.

Hugo Chavez

We have never had such an intense, frank and profound debate in the past seven years,

Kenneth Miller

Whenever you debate, you should really have one person representing I.D. on one side and 10,000 scientists on the other. That would give a fair representation of the division of opinion in the scientific community.

John Warhurst

We want others to know that the debate is not over and we want another referendum in due course.

Suzanne Fields

We've become more tolerant because we're tired of the debate.

Charlie Sheen

I dare anyone to debate me on things.

Robert Perry

What's often also left out of this debate is that 90 percent of victims know their perpetrators. These are family members, neighbors, acquaintances.

Bill Bradley

We're going to have two debates in Iowa in January, ... You can't have a debate in Iowa without agriculture being a major part of it. So we're going to debate agriculture in Iowa.

Joe Volpe

We are producing more jobs than the labor market has workers for ... we're desperate for immigration,

D. James

We've got a very stern test here. They're going to be a desperate bunch, and that's something they're not used to. We're in the same boat, so it should be a good football game.

Kathleen Blanco

When folks who are desperate are trying to get home, it just makes it more difficult for us to get to folks whose lives are in danger.

William Shakespeare

Desperate times breed desperate measures

Nate Corddry

Coffee shops are everywhere, especially in Los Angeles, chock full of sad sacks desperate to make sure their screenplays make it into the right hands... or any hands, for that matter. The one thing that makes a coffee shop truly great, though, is charm.

Bob Geldof

Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best

Steve Coppell

We were desperate for a left side, and the videos landed in our lap.

Alberta Stima

We're getting desperate for help because some of our substitutes are not always available.

Kevin Lygo

We're fortunate in having Lost, Desperate Housewives and My Name Is Earl but it is fiercely more competitive out there than ever before. This May you'll see a feeding frenzy.

Trent Yawney

We want them to experience what it's like to be in that situation. This has been a hard year for everyone -- not just the kids, but everybody off the ice who are trying so hard to make this thing work.

David Burns

We want to treat everybody the same, ... provide the same level of service whether it's three in the morning or three in the afternoon.

Alan Henderson

We want to thank everybody who helped us,

Jamie Varley

We want to sound like everybody and nobody at the same time.

Alexis Karel

We want to show everybody we belong. Our record doesn't matter. All those losses prepared us for this.

Larry Glass

We want to see something that's going to be a win-win for everybody and not just for one segment of the population.

Bengt Gustafsson

We know what we have to do. We know this is going to be a tough test, but we're here to win the gold medal. That's what we want ... that's what everybody wants. We just have to get the job done.

Levi Levine

We know we've got what it takes. It's not even a question. It's just a question of how much we want it. We've got to come out and play as hard as we can, and everybody has to be on the same page.

Shean Donovan

We know we need to play better. Everybody in here knows that.

Jason Cook

We want to show people what search-and-recovery teams go through. The windows are the floors, and the floors are the walls. Their world is literally turned upside down.

Pat Riley

We know he's a big-time tumbler. He goes hard to the basket. He hits the floor a lot. If he could play he'd be out there.

Thomas Hardy

Where once we danced, where once we sang, Gentlemen, / The floors are shrunken, cobwebs hang.

Lazarus Sims

We have to guard them like they have to guard us. They have to prove it. They have to step on the floor the same night we have to step on the floor.

John Hammond

Watching those guys on our own floor every day, working with our guys, that's as good as it gets. There is something to be said for accountability, for actually seeing guys every day.

Allan Ray

When I was on that floor and couldn't see anything, that was one of the first things I was thinking about, I'd probably be blind. I thought I was. I couldn't see anything. Everything was burning. Pretty much, my life just flashed in front of me.

Gail Goestenkors

Throughout the game, we had a lot of hustle plays, no matter what the score was. We got on the floor all night long, and that's what need to do.

Bryan Singer

We've seen better success using firewalls to separate the shop floor from the front office than using anything else.

John Beilein

Senior players have helped us make our style work. It just opens the floor for us, whether people are in man or zone.

Charles Dickens

Such is hope, heaven's own gift to struggling mortals, pervading, like some subtle essence from the skies, all things both good and bad.

Charles Caleb Colton

Hope is a prodigal young heir, and Experience is his banker; but his drafts are seldom honoured, since there is often a heavy balance against him, because he draws largely on a small capital, is not yet in possession, and if he were, would die.

Charles Caleb Colton

Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker.

Charles Dickens

There are hopes, the bloom of whose beauty would be spoiled by the trammels of description; too lovely, too delicate, too sacred for words, they should only be known through the sympathy of hearts.

Chogyam Trungpa

Hope and fear cannot alter the seasons

Chris Barton

We know what it takes to win. Hopefully we will do the work it takes to get back.

Weldon Nelms

We know we will have the same mental breakdowns that every team will have, we just have to hope they don't come at inopportune times. At least then we will be able to work on them during the weeks to come.

Roger Ashby

We know we have to improve significantly on the Kettering performance. But hopefully that was a one off. It'll be tough up there but by no means impossible.

Chris Johnson

We struggled last weekend at Jacksonville. Hopefully this will jump-start us to have a strong end of the season.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is easier to pretend to be what you are not than to hide what you really are; but he that can accomplish both has little to learn in hypocrisy.

Bill Pullman

Rural towns aren't always idyllic. It's easy to feel trapped and be aware of social hypocrisy.

Edgar Friedenberg

It is idle to talk of civil liberties to adults who were systematically taught in adolescence that they had none; and it is sheer hypocrisy to call such people freedom loving.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.

Anton Chekhov

Hypocrisy is a revolting, psychopathic state.

Arundhati Roy

You begin to realize that hypocrisy is not a terrible thing when you see what overt fascism is compared to sort of covert, you know, communal politics which the Congress has never been shy of indulging in.

Bernard of Clairvaux

He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds.

Charles Krauthammer

Highfalutin moral principles are impossible guides to foreign policy. At worst, they reflect hypocrisy; at best, extreme naivete.

Alan Dershowitz

Candor and accountability in a democracy is very important. Hypocrisy has no place.

Lord Lyttelton

Where none admire, 'tis useless to excel; / Where none are beaux, 'tis vain to be a belle.

William Butler Yeats

When we are young we long to tread a way none have trod before

Plaxico Burress

The regular season is here now so you don't have time to worry about none of that anyway, ... You've just got to go out and you've got to make it right. You can't sit back and say 'Oh, we've got time.'

Kenny Perry

We're going to make sure none of his partners put him in any kind of stressful situation.

Thomas Blood

I'll answer to none but the King himself.

Kenny Perry

We're just going to make sure none of his partners put him in any kind of stressful situation.

Marcello Canuto

Site Q was proposed to be in one place, then in another place. There were all these candidates, but none of them really panned out.

Don Brash

She is talking some of the talk, but walking none of the walk.

Claude Allen

Frankly, the president has not been satisfied. None of us have been satisfied.

David Allen

The hardest thing about being productive is not the work, but the split second it takes to decide to take control.

Denise Levertov

Images split the truth in fractions.

Deepika Padukone

Comedy is the most difficult. Comic timing is something which you either have it in you, or you don't. You have to have a good sense of humour to be able to understand it. A split second can make you lose the punch.

Edwin Land

You cannot separate the composition from the life of the moment. It is all one thing, to be decided in a split second while you're living through it.

Jay Wright

Old school, split the house... It was cool.

Charles Bukowski

it was like any other relationship, there was jealousy on both sides, there were split-ups and reconciliations. there were also fragmented moments of great peace and beauty. I often tried to get away from her and she tied to get away from me but it was difficult: Cupid, in his strange way, was really there.

Kent Williams

Pam and I were worried that if it got in the wrong hands, the valley would be subdivided and split up,

Mariella Frostrup

My parents split up, and a lot of things going on in the outside world made me want to immerse myself in an alternative world.

Alice Cary

The attempt is all the wedge that splits its knotty way betwixt the impossible and possible.

Alan Perlis

We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem.

Al Sharpton

Who defines terrorists? Today's terrorist is tomorrow's friend.

Diane Wakoski

Sometimes the archaism of the language when it's spoken is why we are all in love with the Irish today.

David Graeber

States created markets. Markets require states. Neither could continue without the other, at least, in anything like the forms we would recognize today.

Byron Katie

Place only your kindest thoughts on everything you experience today. Meet yourself.

Randy Waynick

We're in a much different place today than we were a year ago.

Edward Gorey

I've never had any intentions about anything. That's why I am where I am today, which is neither here nor there, in a literal sense.

Loretta Young

Way off in 2060, I wonder what we do today will look like in perspective, and after it's been sifted through the objectivity of time.

Edward McKendree Bounds

Bread for today is bread enough.

Dick Gephardt

one of the most important votes we will take in this Congress.

Jeff Denham

I don't know that you have the votes here today.

Al Sharpton

Mr. President, read our lips. Our votes are not for sale.

Charles Kennedy

Fair votes - fundamentally - are about the rights and the interests of the people.

Jim Mowen

You have to go where the votes are at.

Pete Wilson

We'll have to see who has the votes if it comes to that.

Richard Rossi

To make up this many votes is probably very difficult. I'll see how I feel in a week.

Al Scates

They're very solid. They had a lot of first-place votes this week. We know they are for real.

Jerry Bell

We're overwhelmed by it. It was more votes than we expected.

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.

Benjamin Tucker

Is not the very beginning of privilege, monopoly and industrial slavery this erecting of the ballot-box above the individual?

Chelsea Clinton

I'm definitely voting for First Gentleman.

Frank Beamer

We usually have four. The voting was so close, we went with all six.