Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Al Pacino

Either I act or I die.

Kevin Kane

until an application is derived that adds true value and intrigue to this product.

George Young

We are pleased to retain the excellent technical expertise of Don Foot in a position of responsibility and impact. At this point in the development of our Comstock/Mountain Lion iron project and the ongoing work at the Western Utah copper project, their background and technical expertise will be invaluable to us. Likewise, Dr. Nelson adds a tremendous dimension of knowledge and technical capability to our board of directors.

Bob Reed

We are pleased to be leaders in this effort among U.S. companies. Our entire management team considers diversity a business imperative, and our commitment to diversity -- besides being the right thing to do -- adds value to our company and our communities.

Chuck Jones

We're in a slower-growth environment and as Larry said, if you can get 10 percent growth from organic growth and 10 percent from acquisition, it adds cash and adds earnings. That's as long as they can make the integration work.

Jennifer Bowers

When you teach the way we do, you need some time off. The work day is longer than eight hours, and it's not just grading papers that adds to the time.

Ken Simonson

Whether the recovery from Katrina adds to demand for construction materials depends on the types and speed of rebuilding in damaged areas.

Dr. Gordon

When it all adds up together, you can really have a disaster.

Gilbert Newton Lewis

When we discuss aqueous solutions of substances which do not contain hydroxyl, it is simplest to define a base as a substance which adds hydrogen ion.

John Daniels

What a great atmosphere. Three years ago, you could hear each other on the bench. It's a lot different now. It's a lot of fun and it adds a lot for the kids.

Alan Price

We had a missionary zeal about blues music, and I felt, particularly, that Mickie Most was attempting to homogenize, sweeten, and make it accessible for the mass market. Which is understandable if you're the producer, but aggravating if you're the artist.

Alan Moore

If the audience knew what they wanted then they wouldn't be the audience, they would be the artist.

Alan Bean

But I found that being an artist and doing accurate work is very difficult.

Alan Alda

As an artist, as an actor, as a writer, you have to use what's personal to you. You have to be personal about your work; otherwise, it doesn't ring true.

Akon

Whatever obstacle comes your way, you gotta be prepared to jump over it! And I think that's what separates the legends from the regular artists. It's all in how you manage that success, and how you deal with the controversy when it actually comes.

Akira Kurosawa

The role of the artist is to not look away.

Chris Blackwell

I never liked the whole thing about pictures with the artists. You look back at an Elvis Presley record, and you don't see any producer credits, because the audience is not supposed to know about the producer credit.

Chloe Grace Moretz

If I'm talking to a photographer, I'm talking to a stylist, I'm talking to a makeup artist, we're kind of creating and collaborating and making something that is artwork and is special and is different.

Chogyam Trungpa

The artist has tremendous power to change the world.

Louise Leakey

Every species becomes extinct; at some point, we will go extinct. The question is, as Homo sapiens, are we going to be able to adapt to the change that we're actually part of? We're causing such dramatic changes to the planet, so yes, you do stop and think, 'I wonder where we're headed.'

Gary Owens

The potential of getting hit from behind is always there. And at night, it becomes so much more difficult to judge the situation.

Rig Veda

The person blessed with a pure mind is noble and he inevitably becomes great and liberates himself from the darkness of ignorance.

E. O. Wilson

Untended property becomes fair game for people out for fun or plunder and even for people who ordinarily would not dream of doing such things and who probably consider themselves law- abiding,

Sean McAlinden

Where there's not sales growth in the market at all everything is market share, everything is price and it becomes particularly vicious. There's no rising tides to lift any boats in this market.

Debbie Ford

When you treat yourself with the kindness and high regard that you would give to one of your spiritual heroes, your body becomes the epicenter of quiet joy rather than a battlefield for the ego.

Reed Kroloff

When you think that the population of metropolitan New Orleans before Katrina was 485,000 and it's now 150,000, so two-thirds of the city is gone. The question of how to rebuild becomes very difficult.

Nick Park

Success brings with it pressure to conform. I always thought that success would lead to freedom, but the opposite is true: more people get involved, and committees make decisions, and it becomes a fight to stay free.

Richard Geist

Whenever you get a traumatic event happening in society, you tend to see certain reactions to it, such as irritability, depression, confused thinking and sleep problems, ... In that context, rational decision-making becomes very difficult. People tend to begin to let their thought processes be guided by their anxieties.

Johnny Davis

The other thing you get with Grant Hill is the leadership, the professionalism and the good, strong positive character. He brings that element into the locker room and into your team as well. He's just doing really well and it looks to me that this time he'll be able to sustain it the entire season.

Vikas Khanna

The Power of Food is really Spiritual. It not only brings the whole family together on the same table, but also brings the whole world together.

Bill Gates

The personal Web is a tool that brings together all the good things we're used to in a new world of communications, ... It will make us think differently about the PC and the Internet.

John Johnston

We are pleased to strengthen our relationship with Harris County Hospital District. The hospital district plays a vital role in support of healthcare in the region. Premier brings value and market leadership in supply chain cost effectiveness to support the district as it provides high quality patient care and training for health professionals.

Stu Walters

We struggle offensively. Defense is what keeps us around. Senior forward Evan Walker brings it every night defensively, he works his butt off. All our guys do.

Pasuya Yao

We are looking forward to a bottom-up dynamism that brings out what most people think of Taiwan.

Alexandre Oliveira

We're in a world where the model of the inefficiently run national oil company is virtually gone. It's a new model (for national oil companies) that brings change and with it resistance to change.

Noemie Lenoir

I can't say modeling is a hard job. And it brings the money home.

Ian Collins

We have a special player in Andy. He always brings his best.

Jeffrey Immelt

The reason for doing this is simple -- I want more direct contact with the financial services teams,

John Brady

We still think Tyrus will be ready to go. He did all he could do and he felt a little pain, which is going to happen. He took himself out of contact and he'll come back and try to go a little longer.

E. O. Wilson

We?re in contact with three national movie chains. One of our goals is to put a movie theater on the eastern side of the property. It?s a high priority goal.

Nick Frost

Football and me have never got on. My instinct and love for the harder end of contact had always meant I was perhaps a little too heavy-handed for football. Somehow it left me feeling unfulfilled.

Gwyneth Paltrow

I put on the fat suit and went outside and walked around. I was really nervous about being found out, but nobody would even make eye contact with me. It really upset me.

Simon Brown

What the office does in terms of the pardon process is the pardon petition is submitted with reasons and letters. We contact the sentencing judge and the attorney. We talk to the Department of Corrections, who puts together a package. We do not take a stance. Then the pardon petition is sent to the governor and the Executive Council for a decision.

J. M. G. Le Clezio

When I was a child, I grew up speaking French, I mean, in a French public school. So my first contact with literature was in French, and that's the reason why I write in French.

Allard Beutel

We're getting into contact with people. We're trying to take a head count.

Bob Williams

Vehicle safety ultimately comes down to the contact patch between the tyre and the road. And when it comes to snow and ice, we really need a better understanding.

Chogyam Trungpa

Because there is something difficult and destructive involved, there must be something creative involved as well. Relating to that creative aspect is the point.

Byron Katie

When the creative mind is unleashed and understands its true nature, it's unlimited. There's nothing you cannot do.

Catherine Bell

I've always thought of myself as a businesswoman. I have the creative side, but I also have this business sense.

Camille Paglia

Criticism at its best is re-creative, not spirit-killing.

Casey Neistat

If the reason why you're doing anything creative is to make a living, then you're doing it wrong

Mike Gardner

We are pleased to receive the Project Partnership Award. As an organization we have worked creatively with regional communities to get urban forestry off the ground. It's wonderful to be formally recognized for these efforts.

Kurt Vonnegut

Evolution is so creative. That's how we got giraffes.

Charles Koch

Embrace change. Envision what could be, challenge the status quo, and drive creative destruction.

Bob Monkhouse

I'll never stop working. I want to die in the saddle. A day is wasted for me if I haven't done something even mildly creative.

Alan Arkin

Creativity means learning where the rules exist, and then breaking them! Saying, "It's better this way." But you have to know the rules in order to break them with any grace.

Alan Alda

If you know what you're looking for, that's all you'll get - what's previously known. But when you're open to what's possible, you get something new - that's creativity.

Al Seckel

The true secret to genius is in creativity, not in technical mechanics.

Al Hirschfeld

Writers who drew, they all seemed to draw the same way. They managed to keep that childlike creativity in their line.

Akio Morita

From a management standpoint, it is very important to know how to unleash people's inborn creativity. My concept is that anybody has creative ability, but very few people know how to use it.

Akio Morita

My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target. The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.

Akio Morita

There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing. To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.

Chogyam Trungpa

There is no such thing as talent, only awareness.

Chogyam Trungpa

People's creativity is very much alive, but when they get paid for their creativity, they often experience that as rather meaningless. Money as the reward for their creative process is very one-dimensional, a tremendous comedown.

Kurt Eichenwald

Bitcoins can be traded or used for purchases, but only with those sellers who will accept them. Because it is a system independent of external meddling, there can be no sudden devaluation of Bitcoins through the actions of governments.

Bradley Whitford

Life is too challenging for external rewards to sustain us.

Scott Cleland

The external trends are in Dorman's favor, ... while internal trends favor Stephenson.

Jim Padilla

She's the heart and soul of the organization and the external leader. We have a short window of opportunity. If we don't do this (fundraising campaign) there's a risk there won't be a Focus: HOPE going forward.

Liz Williams

I think that the power of the Silent Minute lies in its inherent lack of external direction: what participants actually do during that minute - prayer, contemplation, focus - is up to them.

Wu Yi

We will not reform the yuan until the time is right even if there is external pressure.

Wayne Hale

There are a total of 34 ice frost ramps on the external tank.

Richard Axel

There are many ways for organisms to probe the external world. Some smell it, others listen to it, many see it. Each species, therefore, lives in its own unique sensory world of which other species may be partially or totally unaware.

Diogenes

One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist.

Charles Dickens

All partings foreshadow the great final one.

David Rudisha

I missed the final of the World Championships in 2009, but I told the coach I would break the world record in 2010. Which I did. Then in 2011 I won the World Championships and now in 2012 it is the Olympics. That is how I have been working.

H. Hart

We are pleased to finally restore a more competitive schedule into and out of Yuma.

Sergey Lavrov

We are awaiting final confirmation from the American side,

Gayla Benefield

We're not going to rush into anything that has final on it.

Thomas Hanke

We have no indication at the moment that anything went wrong during the production of the agent. Only an examination of the production process and the substance itself which was injected will provide final certainty.

Lamar Butler

Whenever we talk about the Final Four, you have to mention us making it to the Final Four. This is history.

Carlos Beltran

When he finally learns to exhale, and let the game come to him.

Pat Riley

We were a minute and a half away from the Finals -- big deal, ... It's about winning a championship.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We have become so engrossed in the work of the Lord that we have forgotten the Lord of the work.

Edith Wharton

She gave so many reasons that I've forgotten them all.

Merle Haggard

We're going back to remember the forgotten ones,

Bob Dylan

i've forgotten more than you'll ever know

Elizabeth Bibesco

What we buy belongs to us only when the price is forgotten.

Elin Hilderbrand

To be early is to be on time, to be on time is to be late, to be late is to be forgotten.

John Koh

So for us we have already forgotten about the Malaysia Cup.

Ann Brashares

She existed in her friends; there she was. All the parts of herself she'd forgotten. She knew herself best when she was with them.

Neil Gaiman

As an author, I've never forgotten how to daydream.

Lithuanian Proverb

The person who gives is a person who has

Pedrito Estrill

We are pretty happy about winning a championship. It's always good when you win a championship. It means that you have represented your school well and gives the school something that you can positively identify with.

Dave Littlefield

We're in a position where we can look years down the road and plug in other things. I think that gives us hope for a stronger future. Now, they've got to win and perform well and all that stuff, but you've got to get yourself to that point where we are now.

Ashley Burnett

We're in a good position, but we still have to go out there and compete. At least this gives us an opportunity to practice and go over some things and get rested up for Friday.

Source Unknown

Wealth is what gives you the right to preach about the virtues of poverty.

Mike Donahue

We have a smaller showroom than a lot of other dealerships. That gives us room for more inventory (on the lot).

David Booth

When you see a player go down like that and is really hurting and can't come back, I think that sends a message to our team. It gives you fire.

John Hanley

We're going to remove that portion first because it gives us more room to remove the main portion.

Jay Wright

We're going to need him. He gives us more size out on the perimeter.

Gretchen Rubin

One of my most important 'Secrets of Adulthood': Outer order contributes to inner calm.

Delphine de Girardin

Eternal Inner Peace has to be cultivated daily.

Rusty Schweickart

We're sitting in a shooting gallery, with hundreds of thousands of these things whizzing around in the inner solar system. So it's just a matter of time.

Tift Merritt

I think you need a concrete, real-world metaphor to talk about inner life without feeling like a jerk.

Deepak Chopra

A few moments of inner peace and quiet allows the brain to reset itself. You become more centered as this happens, since the brain is clearing out distractions and too much "cross talk."

Mariah Carey

You really have to look inside yourself and find your own inner strength, and say, 'I'm proud of what I am and who I am, and I'm just going to be myself.'

Suze Orman

You must trust yourself more than you trust others. Pay attention to your inner voice - it will tell you if how and in what you are investing is right for you.

Kat Graham

My style is not trendy by any means; my inner artists loves to shine through in my wardrobe.

Bud Selig

We deeded something away. I'm very concerned, but I think we're making progress. We are really going to get into the inner cities.

Howard Dean

We have no idea what this woman's record is about. She's obviously an accomplished attorney. The question is what does she believe. We have no idea, ... This Week.

Billy Wilder

Make subtlety obvious.

Billy Coleman

We're going to obviously put a lot of thought into this. You don't want to keep shifting in and out, especially through intersections.

Brian Eno

The problem with improvisation is, of course, that everyone just slips into their comfort zone and does sort of the easy thing to do, the most obvious thing to do with your instrument.

Eliza Taylor

Being on Twitter and social media, you obviously get to see a lot more of what people are thinking of you and of your show.

Eula Biss

Bram Stoker's 'Dracula,' in my reading, is really obviously about disease and our relation to disease.

Keyshawn Johnson

The championship, in my eyes, in television, is obviously an Emmy.

Bruce Chen

We won, so obviously I feel very good.

Dennis Ritchie

One of the obvious things that went wrong with Multics as a commercial success was just that it was sort of over-engineered in a sense. There was just too much in it.

Chevy Chase

We never could have performed live for an hour and a half every week if we were doing drugs.

Erik Bruhn

It is important, even if you performed a role the night before, to think, 'This is the first time this is going to happen.'

Jenn Proske

I went to Boston University and got my BFA, and performed Off Broadway.

Ravi Shankar

One single raga can be performed for two hours, three hours.

Patrick Kelly

I am so very proud of all my wrestlers. They performed like warriors.

Jerry Brookings

I actually had a little R&B group, and Tito performed with me once.

Mary Jane

I think we did really well; as a whole we performed a lot better and we sounded a lot better.

Rob Willman

I think we could've done a little better. I'm not down at all. But we could've performed better.

Bob Greene

The meat-and-potatoes work of world journalism is performed by the wire service reporters.

Bob Demesy

We have raced all over, and there's nothing worse for spectators than standing around waiting for the races. We keep them going.

Tim Crouch

'The Author' is a play about responsibility, how active we are as spectators and how responsible we are for what we choose to look at.

Jerome Bettis

I was a spectator out there, ... I can't give you much more than that.

Joe Beasley

The only thing I can say is that spectators need to stay off the field,

John Jones

We get participants and spectators from all over the world.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Life cannot be seen by an unmoved spectator.

Tim Cole

This is a place where we talk with each other on Sunday mornings. We are not just spectators and performers.

Jason Spezza

Dany was Dany tonight. He was flying. He had the one-timer going. I was just a spectator tonight.

Marcel Duchamp

It is the spectators who make the pictures.

Gustav Krupp

We are all proud of having thus contributed to the heretofore magnificent successes of our army.

William Shakespeare

Thus to persistIn doing wrong extenuates not wrong,But makes it much more heavy.

Michio Kaku

Thus the yeoman work in any science, and especially physics, is done by the experimentalist, who must keep the theoreticians honest.

Kathryn Flicker

There is but one verdict in this case. That verdict is death.

Lee Hunter

I was disappointed with the verdict and the sentencing.

Norm Ornstein

After 40 years, the verdict is still out.

Abner Louima

the verdict was not everything I wanted it to be.

Alan Watts

Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and that wherever it is so applied it lends an unmistakable quality to the work.

Alan Clark

Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichés, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology.

Alan Bennett

If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.

Alan Ayckbourn

A gentleman ... sleeps at his work. That's what work's for. Why do you think they have the SILENCE notices in the library? So as not to disturb me in my little nook behind the biography shelves.

Al Kaline

You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way.

Akio Morita

Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.

Chloe Sevigny

I do a dance-based cardio workout infused with circuit training, and emphasizing strength and alignment.

Dave Chappelle

If I put forth a legitimate effort, then I feel like, if that doesn't work out, that's all I can do.

Dave Chappelle

I always take a relationship to the next level. If that works out, I take it to the next level after that, until I finally reach that level when it becomes absolutely necessary for me to leave.