Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Watts

How did you know you're alive, unless you'd once been dead?

Al Pacino

I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.

Al Pacino

Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.

Chris Bohjalian

No one said living isn't a pretty chancy business, Sibyl. No one gets out of here alive.

Chita Rivera

I love the theater because the theater is alive. The audience is right there.

Diane Setterfield

As for you, you are alive. But it's not the same as living.

Chad Harbach

The Human Condition being, basically, that we’re alive and have access to beauty, can even erratically create it, but will someday be dead and will not.

Mark Kennedy

I now have two kids of my own in college, so I know how important it is that we keep the dream alive for every family and I share the concern about rising tuition costs.

Joanna Sikes

When you talk about the glass movement in this country it's actually fairly young and it's at a time when Chihuly and the other forefathers if you want to use that term are still alive and working.

David Tennant

Twitter! It's like being stalked by committee!

Keith Allen

We are going to set up a committee of three members from the Land and Development Committee and three from the speedway to sit down to try to work out some of the issues. That's where we're at.

John Kramer

We have no money, so the committee will have to go out and raise it, period.

John Luckhardt

We were trying to go hard to get guys in here for competition. Instead of one guy, we may go by committee to try to replace Antoine.

Barry Diller

We are all prepared to meet with the special committee and its legal and financial advisors at your earliest convenience,

Tom Browning

We're going to be working with a community committee, a committee of people from the school district, teachers, support staff, all of them will collaborate to look through the applications, then we will umm whittle it down to a group of 6 we hope sometime toward the end of September.

Juan Antonio Samaranch

Throughout its history, the international Olympic Committee has struggled to spread its ideal of fraternity, friendship, peace and universal understanding.

Paul Tagliabue

We've talked about no fewer than six and no more than eight (members). But that's not set in concrete. We had some discussion with the owners about whether the committee should be one owner for each division, or whether there was any one factor that could determine how the committee would be composed.

Mike Long

The creation of the committees are moving forward and led by competent individuals. This will be seen through.

Charles Dudley Warner

The most popular persons are those who take the world as it is who find the least fault.

Charles Spurgeon

He that reads his Bible to find fault with it will soon discover that the Bible finds fault with him.

Martin Luther

We are at fault for not slaying them (the Jews)

Edgar Cayce

Magnify the virtues, minimize the faults.

Edgar Cayce

Analyze thy life's experiences, see thy shortcomings, see thy virtues. Minimize those faults, magnify and glorify thy virtues.

Edmund Waller

Happy the innocent whose equal thoughts are free from anguish as they are from faults.

Benjamin Franklin

Critics are our friends, they show us our faults.

Benjamin Franklin

Suspicion may be no fault, but showing it may be a great one.

Anthony Trollope

It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something.

Charlie Chaplin

Let us fight to free the world

Charles Dickens

But injustice breeds injustice; the fighting with shadows and being defeated by them necessitates the setting up of substances to combat.

Charles Stross

Had enough of my poetry yet? That's why they pay me to fight demons instead.

Charles Stanley

Fight all your battles on your knees and you win every time.

Charles Spurgeon

A church that does not exist to reclaim heathenism, to fight evil, to destroy error, to put down falsehood, a church that does not exist to take the side of the poor, to denounce injustice and to hold up righteousness, is a church that has no right to be. Not for yourself, O church, do you exist, any more than Christ existed for Himself.

Charles Spurgeon

The petitions of Moses discomfited the enemy more than the fighting of Joshua. Yet both were needed. No, in the soul's conflict, force and fervor, decision and devotion, valour and vehemence, must join their forces, and all will be well.

Al Sharpton

The promise of America is one immigration policy for all who seek to enter our shores, whether they come from Mexico, Haiti or Canada, there must be one set of rules for everybody. We cannot welcome those to come and then try and act as though any culture will not be respected or treated inferior. We cannot look at the Latino community and preach 'one language.' No one gave them an English test before they sent them to Iraq to fight for America.

Al Pacino

Sometimes you're fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.

Al McGuire

I went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing. I called him over and told him about it. He told me that in the back there's a tank they keep the lobsters in and while they're in there, they fight and sometimes one loses a claw. I told him 'then bring me a winner.'

Mariel Hemingway

I've known for years that you're supposed to be present. I know that thinking about what's happened or thinking about what I want is not going to get me anywhere, but until I quit doing it I'm not present.

Delos Smith

When you take a look at what's happened in the last month, you see the same kind of pace?right on down the line. It shows a nice, steady moderate pace, which is what you want.

Holly Holm

It doesn't matter what odds are on paper or what's happened before. It matters what happens that moment.

Jon Gruden

We're not going to sit here and try to justify what happened two or three years ago and what happened last year,

Barbara Taylor Bradford

Life was life. It happened. You never knew what was going to come at you. Or how you could defend yourself.

Nicholas Burns

We remember what happened in March 2004, ... There is no place for that in U.N.-sponsored negotiations.

Zell Miller

What has happened to the party I've spent my life working in?

Edward Keon

What has happened over the past several months is valuations have come down a lot to where we think stocks are pretty reasonably valued here.

Kapil Sibal

What has happened in Gujarat has shocked us all. We don't want the situation to worsen and spread to other parts of the country.

Charlie Daniels

I've been to Iraq three times. I've been to Afghanistan, I've been quite a few places, and I want to tell you something, these kids, they're the best we've got. They're the best Americans, they're the most loyal Americans we've got. And we owe them when they come back.

Charles de Lint

All my life I've wanted to be the kid who gets to cross over into the magical kingdom.

Alanis Morissette

Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it.

Alan Hansen

You'll never win anything with kids

Alan Alda

Kids are natural scientists.

Al Purdy

In my own mind, I was sort of a desperate kid.

Al Madrigal

Near my house in Los Angeles is a waterfall. I love to take the wife and kids, but it's also near a sketchy neighborhood. So there's a lot of gang members that hang out at the waterfall. It's like somebody took an Ansel Adams photo and then put a Cypress Hill video inside it.

Al Lewis

I went to all the Love-Ins. I took my kids. I enjoyed myself.

Brad Lancaster

We want the kids to do as well as they can. There are so many opportunities (for various activities), and that's good. But, how do we make sure it's not a distraction.

Charles Spurgeon

One of the greatest rewards that we ever receive for serving God is the permission to do still more for Him.

Joanna Rose

We're not going to reward the union for striking.

Eartha Kitt

If you're looking for immediate rewards, you're only looking for the money.

Daniel H. Pink

When the reward is the activity itself--deepening learning, delighting customers, doing one's best--there are no shortcuts.

Carolyn Wells

Reward is its own virtue.

Irma Gomez

We want for San Antonio to help! If you see my sister, if you see her, let us know! There is a reward out there for her.

Brian Jaffe

We're excited, we're optimistic, we're hopeful. Hopefully, the rewards are going to be there. The rewards had better be there.

Ayn Rand

This was the great clarity of being beyond emotion, after the reward of having felt everything one could feel.

C. S. Lewis

if you do one good deed your reward usually is to be set to do another and harder and better one.

Rob Babcock

But those things usually work themselves out during training camp.

Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.

Aaron Swartz

Most people, it seems, stretch the truth to make themselves seem more impressive. I, it seems, stretch the truth to make myself look worse.

Stephen Covey

Everyone must be proactive and do all they can to help themselves to stay employed.

Robert Redford

I never had a problem with my face on screen. I thought it is what it is, and I was turned off by actors and actresses that tried to keep themselves young.

Bill Cosby

We've got too many young girls, who don't know how to parent, turning themselves into parents.

Friedrich Schiller

With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.

David Clark

It's unfair to the students, because they don't know what they can do to get themselves expelled.

Jorma Taccone

Something I always admire, especially in female comedians, is that they're willing to make themselves look terrible.

Jennifer Dunn

We've tried to make it very visual and interesting.

Flip Saunders

We wanted to win big right away. We didn't let things happen, we tried to make too many spectacular plays.

E. Hicks

We were trying some a little different. We didn't play well in the other ones, so we tried those.

Kylan Robinson

She tried to make it, but it was too late.

Doc Sadler

We tried some things. A triangle-and-two, some zone. And they made some shots.

Craig Biggio

We tried some of that the other day. That's hard,

Maureen Brunt

We tried not to think about it and just play our game.

Phil Budervic

We tried not to do that, because that's kind of unfair. But when we need a basket...that's who we're going to.

Tommy Tuberville

We tried everything that we could. There are no excuses.