Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlie Chaplin

The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.

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.

Bob Elek

There are too many avenues of delay in the current system.

William Wainwright

Jones County has a very serious school construction need, ... They have been looking for avenues since their tax base is so limited and their property tax is very high.

John Wiley

It is a message that special interests can close off legitimate avenues of scientific inquiry.

Matthew Dowd

We took one message and designed lots of different avenues to communicate it. They took a lot of different messages and drove them all into one big funnel.

Sathya Baba

God has given enough avenues of joy in creation. But they have to be shared and enjoyed. You are entitled to just your share of it.

Michael W. Smith

If that was his intention, it's a poor way of doing it. If his intention was changing the policies he should have notified the Legislature. There were other avenues to pursue this.

Mike Shanahan

We look at all avenues to improve our team,

Jim Richardson

is aggressively pursing more appropriate avenues to compete for nurses within the hospital industry.

Sue Johnson

Our goal is we want a healthy community, and to have a healthy community, you have to have the right avenues for care and that's what a lot of this is about.

Charles Dickens

If a dread of not being understood be hidden in the breasts of other young people to anything like the extent to which it used to be hidden in mine - which I consider probable, as I have no particular reason to suspect myself of having been a monstrosity - it is the key to many reservations.

Charles Spurgeon

A vile imagination, once indulged, gets the key of our minds, and can get in again very easily, whether we will or no, and can so return as to bring seven other spirits with it more wicked than itself; and what may follow no one knows.

Charles Spurgeon

Idleness is the key of beggary.

Alan Greenspan

Given our inevitably incomplete knowledge about key structural aspects of an everchanging economy and the sometimes asymmetric costs or benefits of particular outcomes, a central bank needs to consider not only the most likely future path for the economy but also the distribution of possible outcomes about that path. The decision makers then need to reach judgment about the probabilities, costs and benefits of the various possible outcomes under alternative choices for policy.

Alan Greenspan

The use of a growing array of derivatives and the related application of more-sophisticated approaches to measuring and managing risk are key factors underpinning the greater resilience of our largest financial institutions .... Derivatives have permitted the unbundling of financial risks.

Alain Robert

When I was 12, I forgot the keys to my parent's apartment. So I simply climbed up seven floors to get in.

Al Kaline

I was very, very shocked about Cooperstown. I thought my chances were fairly good, but I tried to stay low key about it, not too high and not too low. That was the way I played, too.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The KEY to disciplining ourselves in the area of obedience is always keeping in mind to whom we are being obedient.

Chris Colfer

I just downloaded the new Alvin and the Chipmunks album! They're the only guys that make music in my key!

Patti Savrick

We're quite worried. She's literally on minute-to-minute care.

Chuck Morton

We've started off with literally nothing, and now we have 60 students.

Jim Ramstad

When I had alcoholic blackouts, I literally could not remember what I did the preceding night,

Doug Liman

'Mr. and Mrs. Smith' - every scene is from those characters' point of view. They're in literally every scene, very unusual in a big studio film.

Lorde

The phrase 'teen hottie' literally makes me want to throw up.

Scott Robinson

There are some people who get literally sick after 15 minutes.

Rick Hoffman

We traveled literally over 10,000 miles by car, looking at places,

Sabrina Carpenter

I get inspiration from literally everything and anything. I take inspiration from people, relationships, stories, and I take inspiration from movies I see, books I read and songs I hear.

James Woods

I think that the economy, and the political system, has literally become such a disaster I don't know if it's possible to save it.

Alan Alda

I've never tried to manipulate my image.

Brian Trehearne

The poetry was the man, the man was the poetry.

Benjamin Netanyahu

I'm not naturally manipulative.

David Hume

What would become of history, had we not a dependence on the veracity of the historian, according to the experience, what we have had of mankind?

Arne Glimcher

I've been told I'm a good midcareer manager.

Edward Everett

Ever the characteristic manners of cowardice.

Ed Koch

Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends!

Edward Kennedy

Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management.

Benjamin Franklin

Mankind naturally and generally love to be flatter'd.

Chris Bosh

I had a turnover and three missed shots down the stretch. I just have to make sure I calm my nerves.

Edna Ferber

Emma McChesney was engaged in that nerve-wracking process known as getting things out of the way. When Emma McChesney aimed to get things out of the way she did not use a shovel; she used a road-drag.

Bella Heathcote

I usually have a drink before a carpet because I find them really nerve-racking. Usually a tequila. An upper!

Charlotte Bronte

No severe or prolonged bodily illness followed this incident of the red-room: it only gave my nerves a shock, of which I feel the reverberation to this day.

Alan Furst

One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.

Charles Bukowski

Food is good for the nerves and the spirit. Courage comes from the belly – all else is desperation.

Mark Lowe

My nerves are still frazzled. I can't talk without stuttering, muttering and mumbling.

Johnny Depp

I wasn't obnoxious or precocious but I was curious. There were a lot of practical jokes. I got on her nerves basically. I pissed her off quite frequently.

Charles Scott Sherrington

The terminal path may, to distinguish it from internuncial common paths, be called the final common path. The motor nerve to a muscle is a collection of such final common paths.

David Hockney

You always need a bit of low-tech.You always need a pair of scissors, it seems to me. You can do better things.... The high-tech, somehow, you do have to combine it with low-tech things.

Diana Wynne Jones

In addition, Master Twinkle seems convinced that someone is denying him a pair of stripey trousers.

Daniel Handler

They looked at each other like a pair of parentheses.

Carol Shields

Eventually, everything gets stuck between a pair of parentheses or buried in the bottom of a trunk.

Bridget Moynahan

There's nothing like a good pair of heels.

Brendan Fehr

I do have a lucky pair of underwear.

O. J. Simpson

Wow, three pairs of shoes! Someone had a fetish.

Andre Maurois

To reason with poorly chosen words is like using a pair of scales with inaccurate weights.

Daphne Gottlieb

Love - at least the pair-bonded, prescribed love - does not conquer all.

Barry Sanders

If I could start with anybody, I would initially draft Tom Brady. Then I would go get Ray Lewis, and then maybe an offensive lineman, or somebody like Adrian Peterson.

Pablo Picasso

When you come right down to it all you have is yourself. The sun is a thousand rays in your belly. All the rest is nothing.

Amy Beaner

He did well today. He's been training with Ray (Gallagher) and Cory (Martin) and those two are (sidelined), at least temporarily.

Daniel Alfredsson

I think this stretch has been really important. Not just for Ray but the team, as well.

Lou Harrison

I'm a terrible pessimist... I really don't think we're going to make it. But every so often, there's some little ray of hope.

Clint Eastwood

When you listen to Ray Charles, there's never any doubt whose voice that is.

Raymond E. Feist

As a kid, I sat transfixed watching Ray Harryhausen's '7th Voyage of Sinbad.'

Daniel Alfredsson

If Ray doesn't play as well as he did in the first period, we're down more than a goal.

Bonnie Parker

Boy, we'll get Raymond out and we won't go hungry anymore.

Alex Young

We would ultimately like to have a warning system throughout the solar system so we could know when these storms will occur.

O. Henry

It's going right on out of the solar system.

Patrick Moore

There's no way that solar panels or windmills can do it themselves.

Donald Yeomans

If you wish to study what the solar system is made of you study comets.

Alice Cooper

There's a little Spinal Tap in all of us.

Jennifer Grey

I'm ticking things off my list: I had a tumor removed; I had spinal surgery; I had four surgeries in three months.

Cassandra Clare

Has there ever been an Inquisitor who didn't die a horrible death?" Simon wondered out loud. " It's like being the drummer in Spinal Tap.

Nina Blackwood

I was in the pilot for Spinal Tap before it was a movie.

Henry Rollins

I don't know if you have ever seen the Woody Allen film 'Annie Hall,' but it is, in a way, to Los Angeles and 'Hollywood' what 'This Is Spinal Tap' is to many musicians.

Matthew McGrory

I would love to do a comedy spoof, like a Spinal Tap kind of thing.

Bill Vaughan

It doesn't set off any alarm bells. As is typical with T. Rowe, no transition comes about abruptly; they tend to be planned pretty well.

Chaz Bono

When I realised I was transgender I was so afraid of what my transition would do to everyone else in my life and how they would react to it and would I be rejected?

Alan Dundes

Life, it seems, is nothing if not a series of initiations, transitions, and incorporations.

Brit Hume

It's perfectly possible for somebody to make the transition from politics to journalism.

Brandon Sanderson

It seems that the rebels found the chaos of transition more difficult to accept than the tyranny they had known before. They joyfully welcomed back authority-even oppressive authority-for it was less painful for them than uncertainty.

Ann Brashares

There was a moment in between, a moment flung free in the midst of the transition, when he made contact. That was the moment she would dwell on.

Alfred Rosenberg

We are the transition from one education to the other.

Mohammad Saeedi

We are in the transition state, and the inspectors will work under the NPT.

Greg Buckner

The playoffs, that's just the way that it is. You're not going to get too many transition (baskets).