Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Rickman

I'm always aware of the camera and it feels like that's the audience.

Leslie Robinson

We want to thank everyone who came out to support United Way agencies. The $11,500 will go a long way to help those in need.

Rep. Caruso

We want to see how the process came to be. He really matches up a lot of the missing pieces.

Chow Yun-Fat

Working in front of the camera keeps me alive

Alonzo Sledge

We knew they weren't going to go away. They came back from 22 points down at their Regional, so we told our guys not to relax. They did exactly what I thought they would do.

Sasa Cuic

We knew they were going to make a run; we knew it. Their run ended and we look up and they were only up by a few points. And that was all they got. And then we came out and played better.

Brian Curran

We knew they were going to come back. But when they came back, we stopped skating. We had to make a line and we didn't make a line.

Ryan Smith

We knew they were going to be good. But we came in expecting to win.

Maurice Cheeks

We know how these games are. We've been on the other side. We had games we thought we won, and the other team came back. San Antonio had the game won.

Charlie Daniels

It's quite a traumatic thing for a lot of our veterans that come back... You're in a war zone, you're dodging IED's and bullets one day and a couple days later you're back in society again with a bunch of people that have no idea of what you've been through.

Charles Dickens

It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand.

Charles Dickens

I am a neat hand at cookery, and I'll tell you what I knocked up for my Christmas-eve dinner in the Library Cart. I knocked up a beefsteak-pudding for one, with two kidneys, a dozen oysters, and a couple of mushrooms thrown in. It's a pudding to put a man in good humour with everything, except the two bottom buttons of his waistcoat.

Charles Stross

I don't want to permanently damage myself! On the other hand, a couple of days off the keyboard tends to make things somewhat better.

Charles Stross

I'm told that a couple of my Russian translations are just plain terrible, though, and there may be others.

Alanis Morissette

Over the last couple of years, I've really worked toward balancing my life out more, having a little bit more time with friends, family and my boyfriend. There was a period of time when they were way down the list. It was all about music and touring and if everything fell by the wayside, so be it.

Alan Moore

I increasingly fear that nothing good can come of almost any adaptation, and obviously that's sweeping. There are a couple of adaptations that are perhaps as good or better than the original work. But the vast majority of them are pointless.

Alan Arkin

I played guitar. I've always considered myself an actor, but I wasn't making a living as an actor. So I was in a couple of folk groups that managed to keep me in underwear and burritos.

Alan Ball

There are times when I am directing, and there are a couple of moments I didn't get the way I wanted, but I know I still have other angles to shoot and I have to be done by noon; I move on.

Brittany Rogers

We know what it felt like to lose up here. We didn't want that to happen again.

Kelsey Cermak

We know how it felt to go home after one game last year. We didn't want to go through that again.

Lisa Gansky

I've felt a little culpable that we entrepreneurs often invent businesses just to drive people to buy more things.

M. Night Shyamalan

'The Exorcist' is the scariest movie ever made. It just felt dead-on real, like you were watching the existence of the devil.

Ledawn Gibson

We started off kind of sluggish. I felt like we could've come out better to play, but after we made some adjustments we were able to get things going.

Barnett Newman

From the very beginning I felt that I would do a series,

Matt Hasselbeck

We actually felt we had the momentum after that. It was good for our offense.

Stan Clark

We always felt we did the proper thing.

Shirley Manson

We always felt like we've never specifically fitted in with anyone; there's never been a movement surrounding what we're doing.

Ludivine Sagnier

Hollywood is a wonderful machine for making big movies. In France, we make smaller and more personal films, but if things keep changing, this will disappear. The industry in Italy is practically gone. Cinecitta now is used mostly by filmmakers from others places, like Martin Scorsese.

Terrell Falk

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

Nina Jacobson

I know many filmmakers, and shooting in IMAX is challenging. Filmmakers love the vividness and power of those big images.

Ethan Thillo

There are more Latino movies, made by Latino filmmakers and more people interested in Latino cinema.

James Tobin

I think the filmmakers and I were interested in telling stories that weren't well known,

Julie Gonzalo

I admire a lot of Spanish filmmakers and actors. I grew up watching a lot of Spanish films and novellas, and there's just so much talent out there.

David Twohy

I'm always coming back with too much footage. Most filmmakers do, but I'm always surprised that it keeps happening to me.

James Ransone

Music is a very, very powerful tool that filmmakers use to sway people into emotions that they intend you to feel.

Jeremy Thomas

My advice to American filmmakers is to marry a European. I'm not kidding. Otherwise they don't qualify for international co-production treaties.

Lash Fary

The perceived value of your product or service increases by associating it with top celebrities and a glitzy Hollywood event.

David Hockney

Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood

Elizabeth McGovern

North Hollywood isn't actually Hollywood, it's in the San Fernando Valley... it's not the most glamorous part of L.A.

Edmund Wilson

All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.

Ariel Pink

I've always wanted to do a movie, and I really feel the urge to do it.I'm in Hollywood - I have no business not being in the movie industry.

Delta Burke

But I thought, I've just got to check out Hollywood, so I sent out pictures and resumes.

John McNaughton

We set out to make a movie that let people think for themselves. Hollywood spends a lot of time and money trying to prevent that, but that's not the way I like to tell a story.

Ricky Gervais

Hollywood is responsible for some of the greatest and worst movies of all time!

Douglas Booth

For me, if Shakespeare was around today, he'd be writing screenplays - a big Hollywood movie.

Alan Paton

Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.

Alan Bennett

Of course my standards are out of date! That's why they're called standards.

Jeff Olson

The expectations are very high. The standards were set long before I was born.

Aimee Mann

If your standards are low, you're going to stop pretty early on in the process.

Eliot Spitzer

I have disappointed and failed to live up to the standard I expected of myself.

Coco Chanel

Keep your heel, head and standards high.

Coco Chanel

Keep your heels, head & standards high!

Craig Mathias

If that had not happened, we would probably not have had an 11n standard this year.

Henk Potts

Standard and Chartered could be vulnerable to a takeover.

Homaro Cantu

Urban farming is not only possible, it is crucial. But it can't be like the farming techniques of yore.

Bill Paxton

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

Dean Koontz

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

Zygi Wilf

We didn't want him to twist in the wind another night.

Nick Nolte

How do I relax? Meditate, I guess. I quit golf. You twist your back and get all cranked up.

Stephen Greene

We want this to be the Lollapalooza of the decade, but with a community-service twist to it.

Thomas A. Edison

A little twist to the usual, "Everything comes to he who waits". Everythingcomes to him who hustles while he waits.

Kurt Vonnegut

Everything is nothing, with a twist.

Paul Sullivan

I mean, yeah, I know, look, we're twisting the story a little but we can only twist it, right? What can we do?

Giambattista Vico

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

Charles W. Pickering

The House is rooted in the principle of direct elections and is unique among all branches and bodies of the federal government as without exception, the people's voice.

Charles Taylor

[E]ach of our voices has something unique to say. Not only should I not mold my life to the demands of external conformity; I can't even find the model by which to live outside myself. I can only find it within.

Charles Edward Merriam

Chicago is unique. It is the only completely corrupt city in America.

Alan Greenspan

The recent evidence increasingly suggests that an economic expansion is already well under way, although an array of influences unique to this business cycle seems likely to moderate its speed

Akhil Sharma

Certainly the details of our life are unique. Spending time thinking of how I am different from someone else, however, does not tend to be very productive.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Do not allow the enemy of your soul to rob you of that unique quality God has breathed into you.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We cannot grasp the true meaning of the divine holiness by thinking of someone or something very pure and then raising the concept to the highest degree we are capable of. God's holiness is not simply the best we know infinitely bettered. We know nothing like the divine holiness. It stands apart, unique, unapproachable, incomprehensible and unattainable. The natural man is blind to it. He may fear God's power and admire His wisdom, but His holiness he cannot even imagine.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We know nothing like the divine holiness. It stands apart, unique, unapproachable, incomprehensibl e and unattainable... Holy is the way God is. To be holy He does not conform to a standard. He is that standard.

Chris Asplen

What we've begun to do is discuss the issue, the constitutional issues around that idea, again the privacy issue, which may not be unconstitutional but may pertain to our unique sense of privacy in the United States.