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.

James Madison

Liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty as well as by the abuses of power.

Stephen Kintner

Scrub is probably the most endangered habitat type left in Florida.

Brett Nelson

Since we picked the scrub jay this year it was only natural to work with Oscar Scherer. The Florida scrub here is the most endangered environment in America.

Norm Dicks

Here's my problem with the Endangered Species Act: We don't take any eagles. We don't take any wolves.

Richard Pombo

has failed to produce the goal all Americans share the recovery of endangered species.

Gary Locke

Our hearts go out to the hundreds of people whose homes have been endangered by floods and mudslides.

Stu Rothenberg

His seat is in significant jeopardy now. I don't know how much more endangered he could be.

Mary Borevitz

The fact that there are endangered plants at the site makes it pretty special. The site has tremendous resources for our students to learn about.

Vivienne Westwood

I do think we're an endangered species. But that we do have a plan to save the rainforest.

Meta Golding

When I was a kid, we lived in Italy, which isn't really known for figure skating. I think that's why I excelled so well. I spent a lot of my high school years training.

John Harder

She was forced into a role that she not only accepted, but excelled at. I can't say enough good things.

Marc Walters

She's having a great season for us. Not only has she come in as a freshman and taken over the No. 1 spot at singles, but she has also excelled at that spot.

Rita Peters

She's excelled at every position she's done. At every position she's been in, in the district, she's been the best.

Chris Witty

For me, the great thing about having excelled in a sport was that it was a way to feel happy. People would congratulate me on things I accomplished. I was able to be free on the ice. If I didn't have that I don't know what my life would have been.

Pat Metheny

One of the things jazz has always excelled at is translating the reality of the times through its musical prism.

Dave Tippett

There were a lot of guys that we put into roles where we knew they had to jump in and do a good job. They've excelled in all of them.

Rob Mackowiak

We've all failed in different ways and, now, it's up to us. Obviously, the organization is looking to move into a better direction, so this should be a sign. We need to improve. All Mac could do was prepare us. He couldn't play for us. I wouldn't wish what happened to him on anybody, but you can't fire all of us.

Jeffrey Robinson

Where they failed was in what to do with this huge bulk.

Dick Cheney

What we're hearing from the other side is the failed thinking of the past, and we're not going back.

Thomas Doll

We failed to score the third goal and they played all-or-nothing. Maybe we were scared a goal would slip in there somehow.

Kent Houser

We failed to run our offense in the third quarter. For the rest of the game, I think we played at our pace. We didn't want to slow it down too much, just have some discipline.

Tom Marryott

We failed to match American's intensity as the game went on.

Ken Bruen

I was a failed actor, but for 25 years, I got to go on stage anyway, and I loved it. I've still got the day job, and the travel bug.

John Greene

Many of my traditional supporters, especially in the business, women's rights and gun-owner communities, have failed to step forward to help me as they have in the past. Many have simply written-off the governor's race and ceded it to the incumbent.

Marco Basten

Some moments we played well but overall we struggled with our opponents because we failed to raise the pace.

Charles Wagner

Humanity lives and always has lived on certain elemental provisions.

Charles Dickens

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .

Alan Watts

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

Chip Kidd

Yes, Garnett Grey was an Architect. Were a psychoanalyst to approach him from behind, tap his shoulder, and say 'Humanity,' Garrett'd spin and respond, without hesitation, 'Solvable'.

Jerry Johnson

We know 'Willie Time' is under two minutes. He's just an ordinary human being for the rest of the game.

Scott Horowitz

We know for sure that for human exploration to succeed, we're going to have to learn to live off the land.

Astro Teller

Ultimately, a timeless story has to be about the human condition.

David Mitchell

Anticipating the end of the world is humanity's oldest passtime

David Mitchell

Your turn has come to sift through the dreck of humanity for rare specks of originality

Charlie Chaplin

Nothing in life is permanent, not even one's troubles.

Charlie Chaplin

Man is an animal with primary instincts of survival. Consequently his ingenuity has developed first and his soul afterwards. The progress of science is far ahead of man's ethical behavior.

Charlie Chaplin

So when I cease to be I want to go back...to the sea! Oh for the life of a sardine! That is the life for me!

Charlie Chaplin

You'll find that life is still worthwhile, if you just smile.

Charlie Chaplin

Life laughs at you when you are unhappy; Life smiles at you when you are happy; But life salutes you when you make other happy.

Charlie Chaplin

Life is laughter when seen in a long shot, but it is a tragedy when seen in a close-up.

Charles Dudley Warner

Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.

Charles de Gaulle

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Charles de Lint

We end up stumbling our way through the forest, never seeing all the unexpected and wonderful possibilities and potentials because we're looking for the idea of a tree, instead of appreciating the actual trees in front of us.

William Shakespeare

What is more miserable than discontent?

Benny Hill

Why would I make one woman so miserable when I can make so many women very happy?

Russ Moore

We're going to McDonald's. We had a miserable day.

Al Yankovic

Ever since the day you left me, I've been so miserable, my dear. I feel almost as bad as I did when you were still here.

Edward Abbey

A writer must be hard to live with: when not working he is miserable, and when he is working he is obsessed.

Robert Holden

Many people are out without shelter. It was miserable to start with but with this things are only going to get worse.

Carl Jung

And now I'm right back where I started. Sober and miserable.

Brendan Behan

There is no human situation so miserable that it cannot be made worse by the presence of a policeman.

Ben Okri

I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable.

Chogyam Trungpa

You do not have to force yourself to do anything at all. There is a continual exchange, a continual dance. It is similar to the sun shining and plants growing. The sun has no desire to create the vegetation; plants simply react to sunlight and the situation develops naturally.

Mark Ploger

The plants are in a weakened state. Moisture is the key. We need rain.

Mark Wiley

I wouldn't be putting out young plants just yet.

Jim Leonard

There aren't very many hydro plants we can upgrade left.

Vince Green

When they say plants are closing, they're going elsewhere. And it's not just China; it's Tennessee, Texas, more business-friendly states.

Paul Anderson

We never thought or suspected that these plants would have a problem. Somebody should be doing time for this; that's the way I look at it.

Michael Nelson

It puts it where your plants can use it.

Fred Bassett

It's a combination of plants and a feeder.

Roger Schagrin

A lot of plants will shut down if there is no relief.

Dick Cavett

It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.

James E. Rogers

When in doubt, one can rarely go wrong by going public.

Tom Skerritt

Rarely ever see or meet the writer during shooting.

Karina Lombard

I don't wear perfume, and I rarely wear jewelry.

Dale Lindsey

When he's 100 percent, he has rare talent athletically.

Aaron Peirsol

I think it's rare you surprise yourself like that,

Kevin Constantine

That will be very rare and very welcome. It's been very unusual when we've had to do that.

E. B. White

This was a scary and rare occurrence, not a pattern.

Donald Trump

I'm a believer in the polls, by the way. Rarely do you see a poll that's very far off.

Charles de Gaulle

I might have had trouble saving France in 1946 - I didn't have television then.

Dave Barry

Don't emphasise money if you don't have much; be happy

Earl Wilson

Money in the bank is like toothpaste in the tube. Easy to take out, hard to put back.

David Hoffman

Gorbachev was acutely aware of the [USSR] economic problems, and it was central to all he did. He wanted to change the system in hopes of saving it. In the end he could not.

Arnold Palmer

Sam Snead will fly anywhere in my plane with me. Sam's not as worried about the danger as he is about saving money.

Benjamin Franklin

All things are cheap to the saving, dear to the wasteful

Bernard Baruch

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit

Bill Gates

Well-spent aid money is saving lives for a few thousand dollars per life saved.

Edmund Burke

Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but selection. Parsimony requires no providence, no sagacity, no powers of combination, no comparison, no judgment.

Barry Schuler

Living in your genome is the history of our species.

Bill Nye

What happens to other species also happens to us.

Jasmine Guy

We are a complex species to observe

Chris Servheen

There are so many species that need help,

Michael Crichton

We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion.

Bill Bryson

99.99 percent of all species that have ever lived are no longer with us.

Bryan Pfeiffer

There are many gull species in the world. This one is noticeably different from any gull we have in Vermont.

Lynn Margulis

The fewer species there are and the fewer species we know about, the fewer questions we even know to ask.