Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Rickman

Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over.

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.

Al Pacino

I want to be a great actor someday, and I've decided there's no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.

Al Pacino

It wasn't until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.

Al Pacino

A lot of acting is private time.

Chow Yun-Fat

An actor is only merchandise.

David Morrissey

I've moved into directing as well as acting, and it has taught me never to take casting personally.

David Koechner

That's what acting is, it's exploring conflict.

Dick Dadey

We feel that the interests of New Yorkers are always better served when there are well-spaced and well-informed debates.

Dave Fouch

She councils me just to see how lucky I am to have two sons who share the same interests I do.

Jim Newberry

Many of the interests the students have are similar to the interests of the community.

Mario Cuomo

Scott Stringer has a record of standing up to special interests and getting results for the people of Manhattan. I know a real reformer when I see one and Scott Stringer is the real deal.

Clint Eastwood

There has to be something in every role that interests you.

Zeng Qinghong

The prosperity of ASEAN accords with the interests of China,

Steve Johnson

Basically, it's the tourist trade that interests China,

Max Mathurin

Now that the president has been elected, the political interests at stake during the legislative vote are huge.

Madeline Albright

NATO'S fundamental purpose -- safeguarding the ideals, interests and territory of its members -- is unchanging,

David Kay

In my judgment, based on the work that has been done to this point of the Iraq Survey Group, and in fact, that I reported to you in October, Iraq was in clear violation of the terms of U.N.Resolution 1441.

Carl Levin

The terrorist attacks of September 11th and the courageous actions of our armed forces in Afghanistan and Iraq remind us that friends of tyranny and enemies of freedom still exist

Carl Levin

The liberation of Iraq is a crucial advance in the campaign against terror

Carl Levin

The intelligence failures with respect to Iraq were massive and have damaged our credibility around the world

David Horowitz

The source of the terror in Lebanon as in Iraq is to be found in the Koran and in the despotisms of the Arab Middle East.

Asne Seierstad

When I decided to stay in Iraq, I decided to take the fear out of my body and put it into a freezer.

Dennis Kucinich

Iraq does not pose an imminent threat to the United States of any of its neighboring nations.

Dennis Miller

I would call the French scumbags, but that, of course, would be a disservice to bags filled with scum. I say we invade Iraq, then invade Chirac.

Edward Kennedy

It's now clear that from the very moment President Bush took office, Iraq was his highest priority as unfinished business from the first Bush Administration. His agenda was clear: find a rationale to get rid of Saddam.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The kingdom of God is not in words. Words are only incidental and can never be fundamental. When evangelicalism ceased to emphasize fundamental meanings and began emphasizing fundamental words, and shifted from meaning to words and from power to words, they began to go down hill.

Bill Johnson

Once you've left the concept of family, you've left the concept of kingdom

Billy Zane

One who knows nothing can understand nothing

Beth Moore

Oddly, the most freeing thing we can ever do is to abdicate the throne of our own miniature kingdoms.

Theodor Mommsen

The order of things established by the Romans in Libya rested in substance on a balance of power between the Nomad kingdom of Massinissa and the city of Carthage.

Charles Colson

Remain at your post and do your duty - for the glory of God and His kingdom.

E. Stanley Jones

We must continue to pursue the thought that we do not merely belong to the Kingdom - the Kingdom belongs to us.

David Platt

The body of Christ is a multicultural citizenry of an otherworldly kingdom.

Dallas Willard

Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance

Bill Taylor

We want to send the message that New Orleans is up and running and it's OK to come back.

Mark Regev

We want to send a very strong and sharp message to the Palestinians, and the temporary suspension of talks is that message.

David Koresh

I am more willing to come out when I get my message from my commander.

Casey Kasem

If the beat gets to the audience, and the message touches them, you've got a hit.

Casey Kasem

But otherwise, music is about a beat and a message.

Edwin Land

We can be dramatic, even theatrical; we can be persuasive; but the message we are telling must be true.

Megan Challender

We want people to understand our message is one of peace and not one of hate.

Mark Phelan

Ultimately, the responsibility rests with the drivers, and they seemed to respond to the message we were putting out.

Brian Eno

Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.

Frank McDonald

We're getting into a new region of space never seen before.

Ian Mckellen

When I left Cambridge, I applied to regional repertory theaters in the U.K. and got accepted by one of them... And here I am, still at it.

Duane Gubler

Singapore probably underscores the need for regional controls.

Ferran Adria

There are many cultural prejudices. For instance, even though fresh fish is a regional staple, Catalans don't like sashimi.

Timothy Simons

After school, I was planning to jump from regional theater to regional theater.

Antonio Guterres

We are really very concerned. The whole region is very unstable.

Carlos Gutierrez

only then will the region be truly reborn.

Joschka Fischer

The situation in Iraq is dangerous but the regional situation is also very complicated and precarious.

Jeff Jensen

Keep our water treatment plant, ... Don't go with the regional system.

Aaron Gray

We want to send Carl out on top.

Jerry Gonzalez

We're making sure that we're sending the right message.

Tom Robbins

I eat so much mayonnaise they were going to send me to the Mayo Clinic.

Ron Gardenhire

Most of the time you send Rad back out there. But this isn't most of the time any more.

Ron Gardenhire

Most of the time, you'd send (Radke) back out there, but this isn't 'most of the time' anymore.

Joe Gibbs

Yes, I will send that in. I feel like that one was obvious.

Junichiro Kawaguchi

Sending Minerva to the surface did not work.

Sunita Narain

Sending in the commandos sounds very hip, but it isn't the whole solution.

Ron Gardenhire

Sending him back out there, that's a little silly to try to do something stupid with a man's career. We haven't done that to him all year, and we weren't going to start today.

Charles Caleb Colton

No two things differ more than hurry and dispatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one. A weak man in office, like a squirrel in a cage, is laboring eternally, but to no purpose, and is in constant motion without getting on a job; like a turnstile, he is in everybody's way, but stops nobody; he talks a great deal, but says very little; looks into everything but sees nothing; and has a hundred irons in the fire, but very few of them are hot, and with those few that are, he only burns his fingers.

Charles Caleb Colton

Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that aspires to be the head of a party will find it more difficult to please his friends than to perplex his foes. He must often act from false reasons which are weak, because he dares not avow the true reasons which are strong.

Charles Caleb Colton

The mob is a monster, with the hands of Briareus, but the head of Polyphemus,--strong to execute, but blind to perceive.

Charles Caleb Colton

When we feel a strong desire to thrust our advice upon others, it is usually because we suspect their weakness; but we ought rather to suspect our own.

Charles Caleb Colton

Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Men of strong minds and who think for themselves, should not be discouraged on finding occasionally that some of their best ideas have been anticipated by former writers; they will neither anathematize others nor despair themselves. They will rather go on discovering things before discovered, until they are rewarded with a land hitherto unknown, an empire indisputably their own, both right of conquest and of discovery.

Charles Caleb Colton

Unity of opinion is indeed a glorious and desirable thing, and its circle cannot be too strong and extended, if the centre be truth; but if the centre be error, the greater the circumference, the greater the evil.

Charles Caleb Colton

No two things differ more than hurry and despatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind; despatch of a strong one.