Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlie Chaplin

The cinema is little more than a fad. It's canned drama. What audiences really want to see is flesh and blood on the stage.

Charlie Chaplin

Sound has spoiled the most ancient of the world's arts, the art of pantomime, and has canceled out the great beauty that is silence.

Charlie Chaplin

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.

Charlie Chaplin

There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books.

Charles de Gaulle

Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.

Charles de Lint

You don't have to be Michelangelo to teach basic art, just as you don't have to be Shakespeare to be able to teach the correct use of language.

Charles de Lint

It reminded me of that tongue-in-cheek quick history of art I'd overheard...Used to be people couldn't draw very well, then they could, and now they can't again.

Charles de Lint

From the first time he’d met her, he’d sensed an air of contradiction about her. She was very much a woman, but still retained a waiflike quality. She could be brash, and at times deliberately suggestive, yet she was painfully shy. She was incredibly easy to get along with, yet she had few friends. She was a talented artist in her own right, but so self-conscious about her work that she rarely completed a piece and preferred to work with other people’s art and ideas...

Charles de Lint

People want to know those details. They think it gives them greater insight into a piece of art, but when they approach a painting in such a manner, they are belittling both the artist’s work and their own ability to experience it. Each painting I do says everything I want to say on its subject and in terms of that painting, and not all the trivia in the world concerning my private life will give the viewer more insight into it than what hangs there before their eyes. Frankly, as far as I’m concerned, even titling a work is an unnecessary concession.

Bob Morton

When I was a kid we really enjoyed their visits. They were so open and friendly and generous with the hugs, and they spoke with these thick accents. We loved listening to them.

Lisa Cholodenko

I have enjoyed writing my own stuff, and it's been a privilege to be able to scrap some money together to be able to make films from my own scripts.

Alexa Vega

I don't expect people who've enjoyed 'Spy Kids' will enjoy 'Repo! the Genetic Opera!'

Nick Robinson

I realized I really enjoyed theatre, so I did shows up in Seattle like 'To Kill a Mockingbird' and 'Lost in Yonkers.'

Bill Belichick

When I was out there, I really enjoyed talking to Al,

Leonard Susskind

I have always enjoyed explaining physics. In fact it's more than just enjoyment: I need to explain physics.

Michael Quinn

Three terms are up and Gary and Greg won?t be running so I thought it made sense to stay on. It?s been a great experience and I have enjoyed it.

Theodor Mommsen

For a whole generation after the battle of Pydna, the Roman state enjoyed a profound calm, scarcely varied by a ripple here and there on the surface.

John F. Kerry

I love to play guitar and hack around. I was in a band when I was in high school. I never learned to play very well, but I enjoyed it.

Brittany Rogers

We know what it felt like to lose up here. We didn't want that to happen again.

Kelsey Cermak

We know how it felt to go home after one game last year. We didn't want to go through that again.

Lisa Gansky

I've felt a little culpable that we entrepreneurs often invent businesses just to drive people to buy more things.

M. Night Shyamalan

'The Exorcist' is the scariest movie ever made. It just felt dead-on real, like you were watching the existence of the devil.

Ledawn Gibson

We started off kind of sluggish. I felt like we could've come out better to play, but after we made some adjustments we were able to get things going.

Barnett Newman

From the very beginning I felt that I would do a series,

Matt Hasselbeck

We actually felt we had the momentum after that. It was good for our offense.

Stan Clark

We always felt we did the proper thing.

Shirley Manson

We always felt like we've never specifically fitted in with anyone; there's never been a movement surrounding what we're doing.

Barry McGee

Galleries are easier to steal from than the Apple Store, maybe.

Anthony Quinn

First of all, I only get 50 percent of it, because, I mean, the galleries get 50 and 60 percent. I mean, that's normal. I understand that. I don't quarrel with that.

Charles de Lint

The thing with pretending you're in a good mood is that sometimes you can.

Charles Dickens

Money and goods are certainly the best of references.

Charles Dickens

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Charles Dickens

Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason

Charles Caleb Colton

Of two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to society, that good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that a good life should lend its support to a bad doctrine.

Charles Dickens

A good thing can't be cruel.

Charles Simmons

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.

Alan Moore

If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps make them laugh, perhaps make them cry - that will have some emotional clout to it. It doesn't cost much to do that.

Alan Alda

The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.

Al Michaels

We live in this world of tweeting, and social media, and anti-social media, and all the rest, so no matter what you say, there is going to be what people say is a firestorm. I don't know what a firestorm is.

Chloe Sevigny

The media loves negative spin.

Dhani Harrison

I suddenly realized that in order to do what I wanted to do, I had to become that which I hated - which is the head of a record company or a digital media conglomerate - and just do whatever you want.

Dave Barry

Today's beauty ideal, strictly enforced by the media, is a person with the same level of body fat as a paper clip.

Dave Barry

Here in the news media, our focus is on speed. When we get hold of some new and possibly inaccurate information, our highest priority is to get it to you, the public, before our competitors do. If the news media owned airlines, there would be a lot less concern about how many planes crashed, and a lot more concern about whose plane hit the ground first.

David Talbot

There are not that many new media brands you can say that about nowadays.

David Sanborn

Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized and there's just no outlet, there's no venue for it, in terms of media.

David Puttnam

In the U.K., the history of regulation, certainly regulation of the media, is one in which, time and again, successive governments lacked the 'bottle' to enforce the powers that were available to them.

David Puttnam

At least in the West, politicians, corporations and media moguls can no longer take for granted their power to control the public discourse - and have it go unchallenged.

Benjamin Franklin

Mine is better than ours.

Anna Kournikova

When I was 12, every little girl in Russia was trying to wear her hair like mine and playing tennis.

Ryan Newman

Mine was unintentional and his was intentional, and that's all I'm saying.

Ryan Newman

Mine was unintentional and his was intentional and that's all I am saying. NASCAR can do what they want.

Angus MacMillan

Mine production is nowhere near what we thought it would be at the start of the year.

Dede Wilsey

I can't remember. They're somebody's. But they're mine now.

Roger Hatch

From now on I'll be a spectator sitting in the stands, having my pop and watching from there. It's been a passion of mine for a while, and I'll still be there to support (the club).

Troy Williamson

For real? Wow. That's crazy. Nah, I'm going to keep mine and put it in my house.

Bible Bible

I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.

Neneh Cherry

The race is your face. Obviously, I come from a mixed background. Who I am and how I look and being black.

Nathalie Dechy

She served very well and mixed her game. I had a lot of opportunities but simply couldnt take the lead,

M. Thompson

We have played a lot at the SCG with mixed results.

Cody Wright

You can do it yourself, but the trick is to make sure you get it in the right place, you get it mixed up well and it's as sterile as possible.

Jason Hill

We'll be playing new stuff on Monday. It sounds like Mow town with other things mixed in.

Richard Rodgers

I would like, if I can, to broaden the possibilities of the musical theater. I think there's a better 'Oklahoma!' someplace, a better 'West Side Story.' And I'd like to be mixed up in it.

Lynn Duncan

People would like to see some kind of mixed use as opposed to 100 percent condominium.

Omar Vizquel

On the road, it's going to be a mixed feeling. But at home, he'll get the support.

Lauren Bacall

The big rule is that you must never get mixed up with a married man - never even look sideways at another woman's fella. Boy, I really was terrific at obeying that rule, wasn't I?

Charlie Daniels

I can't wait to get off the bus and... go on stage and entertain people. That's my thing, that's what I love. I love doing it... I thank God I can make a living doing it.

Charlie Chaplin

The people are applauding you because none of them understands you and applauding me because everybody understands me.

Charlie Chaplin

The building is a special place because of its architecture; But it's people who make it special by participating in it.

Charlie Chaplin

I am for people. I can't help it.

Charlie Chaplin

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

Charlie Chaplin

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone

Charles Wagner

If there are people at once rich and content, be assured that they are content because they know how to be so, not because they are rich

Charles W. Pickering

The public airwaves provide a chance to affirm we want to be a good, decent people; a good, decent nation.

Charles Sumner

The slave power dares anything, and it can be conquered only by the united masses of the people. From Congress to the people, I appeal.

Paula Creamer

If what I say or what I do affects others who look up to me as a role model, that pleases me so much.

Atharva Veda

That which pleases His Will has come to pass; no one else can do anything.

King Fahd

I am but one of you; whatever troubles you, troubles me; whatever pleases you, pleases me.

Granth Sahib

Some stand and serve You; without the Name, nothing else pleases them. Any other task would be worthless to them - You have enjoined them to Your True Service.