Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Rickman

You can act truthfully or you can lie. You can reveal things about yourself or you can hide. Therefore, the audience recognizes something about themselves or they don't -- You hope they don't leave the theatre thinking that was nice...now where's the cab?'

Alain Robert

Sometimes doing the forbidden can be nice.

Alan Alda

I don't really worry about the size of the part much any more. It's nice to have more time to work on the character, and to have big scenes to play. But if there's something playable there, and if it's interesting to do, then that's nice.

Al Neuharth

Be as nice as possible and as nasty as necessary.

Chris Claremont

I'm the best there is at what I do but what I do best isn't very nice

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I am aware that I have been incredibly fortunate in my life to work with the people that I have worked with and pursue the projects that I have been able to do. There are so many films that I have done that I really, as a film person, as a film fan, that I like. And that is a nice place to think of a career in.

Chet Baker

I don't believe that jazz will ever really die. It's a nice way to express yourself.

Dave Franco

Recently I've been looking for something new. The past few projects I've worked on, I keep getting cast as the asshole. I promise I'm a nice guy and not the asshole that everyone keeps seeing.

David Schwimmer

I think I'm a very very nice director. Very supportive, very nurturing. I definitely try to challenge my actors but I think I'm very supportive.

Charles Dickens

Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day.

Charles Dickens

An observer of men who finds himself steadily repelled by some apparently trifling thing in a stranger is right to give it great weight. It may be the clue to the whole mystery. A hair or two will show where a lion is hidden. A very little key will open a very heavy door.

Charles Dickens

The more man knows of man, the better for the common brotherhood among men.

Charles Dickens

It is required of every man," the ghost returned, "that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow-men, and travel far and wide; and, if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death.

Charles Dickens

When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.

Charles Dickens

Most men unconsciously judge the world from themselves, and it will be very generally found that those who sneer habitually at human nature, and affect to despise it, are among its worst and least pleasant samples.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat.

Charles Caleb Colton

When we are in the company of sensible men, we ought to be doubly cautious of talking too much, lest we lose two good things, their good opinion and our own improvement; for what we have to say we know, but what they have to say we know not.

Charles Caleb Colton

No man can promise himself even fifty years of life, but any man may, if he please, live in the proportion of fifty years in forty-let him rise early, that he may have the day before him, and let him make the most of the day, by determining to expend it on two sorts of acquaintance only-those by whom something may be got, and those from whom something maybe learned.

Brian Moore

UK consumers are tightening their belts as they feel the financial pinch inflicted by rising petrol and fuel prices.

Jim Wallace

We have a plan to reduce the county's sales tax by one percent, ... thereby reducing the cost of gas for the consumer. We (county) will have to make due with a little less and make a cut in the price of gas that will be visible to the consumer. If we have to tighten our belts a little bit then that is what we will do.

P. J. O'Rourke

Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have.

Kathie Davis

We're kind of fastening our seat belts for January. Like all health club facilities, we will be busy in January. We're looking forward to a really busy January.

Melissa Harwell

We still have to work on timing for getting out of the house to do stuff, but we are starting to get the hang of it. The hardest part is getting three kids in and out of seat belts every time I need to go somewhere. The first night they were here, everybody slept except for me. I was too scared and excited. The next night, and each subsequent since then, I slept like a rock. I guess that's the sheer exhaustion from going from one child to three overnight.

Ann Kirkpatrick

When millions of Americans are tightening their belts, folks have the right to expect their elected officials to do the same.

Bob Feasel

We played with very little emotion, but it was nice to get a win under our belts again. We held them down on the offensive end for most of the game, so that was a big positive. We were very businesslike on both ends of the floor.

Mark Leonard

Police officers not wearing their seat belts certainly sends the wrong message to members of the public, ... Obviously, for their own safety, it's in the people's best interest to wear their seat belts.

Audley Harrison

m the future champion of the world. I think the Americans want to see me in a test but what they don't realize is, when I get in there with these guys that peole want to see me fight, I'm going to deal with them as I have my first 19 opponents. Hopefully that will satisfy them, and if it doesn't I'll have the belts around my waist to satisfy them. My mission will not be finished until I have the belts wrapped around my waist. I'm here to stay!