Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bret Harte

Crude at first [the short story] received a literary polish in the press, but its dominant quality remained. It was concise and condense, yet suggestive. It was delightfully extravagant - or a miracle of understatement

David Quammen

What do we measure when we measure time? The gloomy answer from Hawking, one of our most implacably cheerful scientists, is that we measure entropy. We measure changes and those changes are all for the worse. We measure increasing disorder. Life is hard, says science, and constancy is the greatest of miracles.

Carl Sagan

A blade of grass is a commonplace on Earth; it would be a miracle on Mars. Our descendants on Mars will know the value of a patch of green. And if a blade of grass is priceless, what is the value of a human being?

Jandy Nelson

You have to see the miracles for there to be miracles.

Charles Spurgeon

The greatest, strongest, mightiest plea for the church of God in the world is the existence of the Spirit of God in its midst, and the works of the Spirit of God are the true evidences of Christianity. They say miracles are withdrawn, but the Holy Spirit is the standing miracle of the church of God to-day.

Cheryl Richardson

Affirmation plus action equals miracles.

Kurt Vonnegut

Trust a crowd to look at the wrong end of a miracle every time.

Kurt Vonnegut

What you can become is the miracle you were born to be through the work that you do.

Eckhart Tolle

Learn from nature. See how everything gets accomplished and how the miracle of life unfolds without dissatisfaction or unhappiness.

Dean Koontz

If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it.

Bill Paxton

It's become very popular in contemporary films to have the twist ending.

Kurt Vonnegut

Everything is nothing, with a twist.

Laurieann Gibson

I was obsessed with Chubby Checker and old dances, like the twist.

Henry Rollins

You don't have to twist my arm to work.

Giambattista Vico

The straight line cannot proceed through the torturous twists of life.

Julie Burchill

Transsexualism is, basically, just another, more drastic twist on the male menopause

Juliette Lewis

I'm always revving the engine. In this industry, there are so many twists and turns. You never have it made.

Martin Amis

The trouble with life is its amorphousness, its ridiculous fluidity. Look at it: thinly plotted, largely themeless, sentimental and ineluctably trite. The dialogue is poor, or at least violently uneven. The twists are either predictable or sensationalist. And it’s always the same beginning, and the same ending.

Tom Freston

We want to produce films here, we don't want to just distribute. We want to work with Indian producers.

Terrell Falk

When filmmakers make a movie, they make a movie for the large screen.

Agnes Obel

I love the conversation between film and music.

Agnes Varda

I'm not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman - not unless she is looking for new images.

Peter Sarsgaard

When I finished filming and I flew back home to Australia, I really did not want to take that 14-hour flight.

Marshall Curry

When I'm making documentaries, I think a lot about how fiction films play. I want them to have the pacing, the twists and the character development of fiction films.

Adoor Gopalakrishnan

We used to watch some very good Hindi films made in those days.

Jaime Pressly

The process of doing films is not my favorite, but I love television. Television is a quicker turnaround. You shoot more during the day, which makes me feel more productive. It would be like, 'I did five scenes today and ten pages.' That's television.

Alden Ehrenreich

When I was a little kid, my parents would show me Marx Brothers' films and westerns and stuff like that. That's where all my desire to be an actor comes from and probably most of my understanding of acting comes from for sure.