Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

Try to do unto others as you would have them do to you, and do not be discouraged if they fail sometimes. It is much better that they should fail than you should.

Charles Spurgeon

Dear friends, whenever you want to understand a text of Scripture, try to read the original

Charles Spurgeon

The great reason why we have so little good preaching is that we have so little piety. To be eloquent one must be in earnest; he must not only act as if he were in earnest, or try to be in earnest, but be in earnest.

Alan Watts

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

Alan Watts

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

Alan Watts

Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.

Alan Parsons

That Beatle euphoria has always been there, and it's hard to be in a room with a Beatle and try to be totally natural. You never shake that off.

Alan Moore

I try to do things in comics that cannot be repeated by television, by movies, by interactive entertainment.

Alan Arkin

Improvisation sometimes seemed more like jazz than acting, like verbal jazz, with the actors playing a theme back and forth, and then introducing another theme, incorporating it, somehow trying to work their way all together to a meaning of some kind, or at least a conclusion.

Michael Specter

I have covered wars, before the epidemic began and since. They are all ugly and painful and unjust, but for me, nothing has matched the dread I felt while walking through the Castro, the Village, or Dupont Circle at the height of the AIDS epidemic.

George Clooney

We are a little bit out-of-touch in Hollywood. I think that?s probably a good thing. We are the ones who talked about AIDS when it was only being whispered ... We talked about civil rights ... I?m proud to be part of this Academy, proud to be part of this community.

George Clooney

We are a little bit out of touch in Hollywood every once in a while. I think it's probably a good thing. We're the ones who talk about AIDS when it was just being whispered, and we talked about civil rights when it wasn't really popular. This Academy, this group of people gave Hattie McDaniel an Oscar in 1939 when blacks were still sitting in the backs of theaters. I'm proud to be a part of this Academy.

Niki de St. Phalle

AIDS is a complex situation that's sure to bring out the best and the worst in people.

Atifete Jahjaga

There’s no copy-and- paste system in foreign aid.

Ed Harris

I had some really dear friends who died from AIDS-one in particular. His family wasn't around and he didn't have many friends. I spent a lot of time with him in his later days.

Charlize Theron

I want to be part of the generation that stops AIDS.

Harriet Miers

Yes, assuming need and resources. I do consider the AIDS illness as a serious, total community problem.

George H. W. Bush

We're concerned about AIDS inside our White Housemake no mistake about it.

Gavin Hood

Part of what's so tricky in a film that's two hours long is how many themes can you effectively explore.

e. e. cummings

(existing's tricky:but to live's a gift)

Cassie Desmone

He managed his way through a lot of tricky holes.

Nestor Carbonell

It's tricky to do a serialized show and not lose viewers along the way because you really have to watch every episode.

Phoebe Philo

It's been a bit tricky trying to establish a 'designer' profile and not a designer-cum-girl-around-town.

Lisa Kudrow

It's challenging to get it to look spontaneous, ... That's tricky to do.

Jaime Winstone

I've done quite a lot of growing up in public, which has been tricky at times.

Ewan McGregor

Success is tricky to deal with, both professionally and in your personal life.

Hugh Laurie

This was the tricky bit. The really tricky bit, trickiness cubed.