Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Discretion has been termed the better part of valour, and it is more certain, that diffidence is the better part of knowledge.

Alan Moore

For whatever the future holds, one thing is certain... It just won't be the same.

David Milne

Science deals in evidence and uncertainty. Religion deals in certainty without evidence.

Lucas Till

I think there's certain things that I know in my head that I enjoy: action movies.

Lisa Cholodenko

I feel like I've been observed as an individual more than a gay person, or as a filmmaker with a certain point of view rather than a lesbian filmmaker with a gay point of view.

Michael Specter

If there is anything more frightening than the threat of global nuclear war, it is the certainty that humans not only stand on the verge of producing new life forms but may soon be able to tinker with them as if they were vintage convertibles or bonsai trees.

Monica Lewinsky

I certainly know that this relationship could not have continued the way it did, when I was at the Pentagon and the president was obviously at the White House, without Betty.

Scott Long

Until about four years ago, the Chinese medical profession was still following a version of the diagnostic manual that still listed homosexuality as an illness. That has also changed, but that may not have filtered down into how individual doctors or just ordinary people perceive it. Things have certainly gotten better, though, but this latest raid shows that the government can still step back, as well as forward.

Pete Nichols

We are providing Guidant shareholders with certainty of completion, significant upside potential and substantially more value today than the Johnson & Johnson transaction. By any objective measure, our offer is clearly superior to Johnson & Johnson.

Nicolas Roeg

When I went to the cinema as a boy, when I saw a war film, I thought the general was the star, and that Cary Grant was an extra. I had no idea about the structure of film, but I loved going to the cinema.

Derek Jarman

Oh how Shakespeare would have loved cinema!

Derek Jarman

The Last Of England works with image and sound, a language which is nearer to poetry than prose. It tells its story quite happily in silent images, in contrast to a word-bound cinema....

Agnes Varda

At that time, when I started, in the '50s, cinema was very classical in its aims.

David Gale

We were tracking this project really early on, and it really was about the material itself for us. It felt very cinematic, more cinematic than most videogames and with a real sense of style, with very strong characters.

Charlie Hunnam

The landscape of cinema is not original. Not to say there aren't great movies being made, but it's much easier for studios to make movies that have built-in audiences. So it's all remakes, adaptations, a lot of remakes of adaptations.

James Cameron

We're so scared of piracy right now that we're ready to pimp out our mothers. This whole day-and-date DVD release nonsense? Here's an answer: (Digital cinema is) one of the strongest reasons I've been pushing 3-D for the past few years because it offers a powerful experience which you can only have in the movie theater.

Kaya Scodelario

I would love to make a Brazilian film, but it would have to be something very close to my heart. It's such a personal thing, so I'd want to do my family proud. I'd want to do justice to Brazilian cinema. I think Brazilian cinema is brilliant. I would really love to do something, but I'm just waiting for the right thing.

Dhani Harrison

I've grown up around cinema. Michael Kamen was a very, very close friend of mine, sort of my godfather. So I know how much work goes into it. You have to know what you're doing.

M. Wolfe

I like to say that I provide pain relief to people whose lives are cluttered with too much stuff. Getting your office organized can give you peace, serenity and can really simplify your life.

Jim Trett

By wearing them down we got it inside. The first half we had a tough time. They were really crowding (the inside). The second half they were worn down and it wasn't cluttered inside.

Stacy Schiff

Recently a study proved that working from a larger, less cluttered computer screen increases concentration. I could have told them that. And yes, I write first drafts with a mechanical pencil and a yellow legal pad. There's good reason for this primitive behavior: I am a crackerjack typist. My hand moves far more quickly than my brain.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

When ever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.

Jeff Lemire

When you're a kid, you're not as corrupted by the world at large. You're not corrupted by prejudices. You're much more open-minded. Much more interested in the world around you. 'Sweet Tooth' is about the world returning to that kind of place.

Pankaj Mishra

Many Indians and Israelis seem set to elect, with untroubled consciences, those who speak the language of torturers and terrorists. More disturbingly, these corrupted democracies may increasingly prove the norm rather than the exception.

Lapo Elkann

I love Winston Churchill. I love the wisdom he had, the sagacity. I like people who are independent-minded. People who aren't part of clans or systems, who are talented and free, and able to do things without being corrupted by the system.

Nancy Gibbs

After the 1960s and '70s, there were real doubts about whether a mortal man could handle the country's highest office. It had destroyed Johnson, corrupted Nixon, and overwhelmed Ford and Carter.

Josh Lerner

Our standards-setting process risks being corrupted by having people filing for, and getting, any patents they want. That poses a real danger to the effectiveness of innovation.

John Fisher

Our society's values are being corrupted by advertising's insistence on the equation: Youth equals popularity, popularity equals success, success equals happiness.

W. S. Gilbert

I think once it's corrupted, it's corrupted and you need to throw it out.

Harry Wu

That will prop up the corrupted regime. We are rewarding and we are encouraging the government for what they did over the past 20 years.

Charles Dickens

I don't remember who was there, except Dora. I have not the least idea what we had for dinner, besides Dora. My impression is, that I dined off Dora, entirely, and sent away half-a-dozen plates untouched. I sat next to her. I talked to her. She had the most delightful little voice, the gayest little laugh, the pleasantest and most fascinating little ways, that ever led a lost youth into hopeless slavery. She was rather diminutive altogether. So much the more precious, I thought.

Charles Dickens

There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.

Charles Dickens

Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.

Charles Dickens

Mystery and disappointment are not absolutely indispensable to the growth of love, but they are, very often, its powerful auxiliaries.

Charles Dickens

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

Charles Dickens

You know what I am going to say. I love you. What other men may mean when they use that expression, I cannot tell. What I mean is that I am under the influence of some tremendous attraction which I have resisted in vain, and which overmasters me. You could draw me to fire, you could draw me to water, you could draw me to the gallows, you could draw me to any death, you could draw me to anything I have most avoided, you could draw me to any exposure and disgrace. This and the confusion of my thoughts, so that I am fit for nothing, is what I mean by your being the ruin of me.

Charles Dickens

What lawsuits grow out of the graves of rich men, every day; sowing perjury, hatred, and lies among near kindred, where there should be nothing but love!

Charles Dickens

I loved you madly; in the distasteful work of the day, in the wakeful misery of the night, girded by sordid realities, or wandering through Paradises and Hells of visions into which I rushed, carrying your image in my arms, I loved you madly.

Charles Dickens

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

LaToya London

I think she has more gospel style than I do. I think I'm more, umm, you know mainstream I guess. I don't know if we split the vote. That could be possible but I don't think we are the same at all.

Ronnie Milsap

When I was doing mainstream country, there was no way that an executive was going to ask you to do a gospel album.

Bob Dylan

Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of course, there's no fitting into it now.

Billy Corgan

Rock in the mainstream culture has lost a lot of its mojo.

Shane Smith

Most of the time, when the mainstream media reports on something, it never tells the whole story.

John Edwards

I'm a mainstream North Carolinian, ... I think my views and values represent the values of most people in this country.

Anne Boleyn

I didn't care whether or not it was acceptable to mainstream society to be in a rock band. This is what I wanted to do.

David Whyte

By definition, poetry works with qualities and dynamics that mainstream society is reluctant to face head-on. It's an interesting phenomenon that by necessity, poetry is just below the radar.

David Moody

We talked about what they already know ? that they spend a lot of time watching TV and that what they see is spread into mainstream ideals.

M. Night Shyamalan

The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits.

Madhur Bhandarkar

I'm not into replicating old movies. But one should never say never. Tomorrow I may feel like making a part 2 of some of my movies.

Joaquin Phoenix

The only reason why I would like to be accepted? Because if your movies don't do well, after a while you don't get to make any more movies.

John Hughes

The only reason I got into movies was because I had no music talent.

Annalee Newitz

Watching 'Interstellar' is really like watching two movies slowly collide with each other.

Paul Dergarabedian

We're getting to the point where people only want to go out to see movies that are as big as the screen. They want to see 'event movies' like 'Kong.' The rest they'll wait for.

Kent Beck

My great-grandfather played organ for silent movies. Talkies in, Gramps out.

Tony Scott

What always leads me in terms of my movies are characters.

Rinko Kikuchi

When I was a little girl, I used to watch a lot of monster movies, like 'Godzilla.' All those monster movies.

Keith Warren

We are primarily here to present an alternative message. We support the troops and the mission.

Jane Jacobs

The best part of a Reg Hartt presentation is what he has to say.

Ewen Bremner

As parents, I think we're always novices, and every day presents a new challenge.

Terry Wogan

Most television could be presented by a dachshund. Radio can't, although there are a lot of dachshunds in there.

Alessandra Ambrosio

My little girl, Anja, is really excited. We had a baby shower yesterday and she took the presents from everyone for me and was telling them, 'No, it's my baby.'

O. J. Simpson

There are no talks with competitors at the present time... but with our share price where it is, we know we are vulnerable.

Derrick Jensen

If the world is presented as resources to be exploited, then, more than likely, you're going to exploit the world.

Bhumibol Adulyadej

Since that time up until the present time, there have been progress, and changes all through the time. The changes have not come by themselves; these changes have come from the doings of everyone in the country.

Daren Beaudo

When a statute is presented I'll have something to talk about.

Charles Dickens

Marley was dead, to begin with ... This must be distintly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate.

Alan Rickman

The point about a great story is that it's got a beginning, a middle and end.

Alan Rickman

It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.

Alan Rickman

I like it when stories are left open.

Alan Moore

This is an IMAGINARY STORY...aren't they all?

Alan Moore

Everybody has their story to tell.

Alan Ball

I really love storytelling, and I love the stories as they reveal themselves. It's an incredibly nourishing process; it's probably the closest I come to having a religion.

Chris Cleave

Our stories are the tellers of us.

Chris Cleave

We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us.

Charles Dickens

My heart is set, as firmly as ever heart of man was set on woman. I have no thought, no view, no hope, in life beyond her; and if you oppose me in this great stake, you take my peace and happiness in your hands, and cast them to the wind.

Charles Spurgeon

A high character might be produced, I suppose, by continued prosperity, but it has very seldom been the case. Adversity, however it may appear to be our foe, is our true friend; and, after a little acquaintance with it, we receive it as a precious thing - the prophecy of a coming joy. It should be no ambition of ours to traverse a path without a thorn or stone.

Alan Clark

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

David Mitchell

True knowledge without xperience is food without sustenance

Byron Katie

The WORK 1.Is it true? 2.Can you absolutely know that it's true? 3.How do you react when you think that thought? 4.Who would you be without the thought?

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

You know who your true friends are when things go wrong for you, but the opposite is also true. When things go well, the people who really love you are happy.

Charlie Bewley

I've scammed so many people throughout my whole life who never learned my true identity until I started acting.

Billy Joel

Well I never had a place that I could call my very own/That's all right, my love, 'cause you're my home.

Audrey Hepburn

True friends are families which you can select.

Charles Dickens

A word in earnest is as good as a speech.

Charles Dickens

Anything that makes a noise is satisfactory to a crowd.

Charles Dickens

Surprises, like misfortunes, seldom come alone.

Charles Dickens

Captain Cuttle, like all mankind, little knew how much hope had survived within him under discouragement, until he felt its death-shock.

Chris Cornell

The words you say never live up to the words in your head.

Louise Erdrich

It was enough just to sit there without words.

David Hume

The simplest and most obvious cause which can there be assigned for any phenomena, is probably the true one.

Edward Everett Hale

I will not refuse to do the something I can do.

Carlos Castaneda

Do you know at this very moment you are surrounded by eternity? And do you know that you can use that eternity if you so desire?