Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlie Chaplin

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

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.

Devon Werkheiser

My favorite way of getting out of doing chores is by acting like I'm asleep. But it never works.

Charles Caleb Colton

Professors in every branch of the sciences, prefer their own theories to truth: the reason is that their theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Henry Ford

There are some branches that are closed, but as I said 90% are still open.

David Dennis

We started investing overseas quite a while ago -- for at least the last five or six years. We continue to branch that out.

David Hilbert

The further a mathematical theory is developed, the more harmoniously and uniformly does its construction proceed, and unsuspected relations are disclosed between hitherto separated branches of the science

Michael Hayden

There is no part of the executive branch that more exists on the outer edge of executive prerogative than the American intelligence community - the intelligence community, CIA, covert action. My literal responsibility as director of CIA with regard to covert action was to inform the Congress - not to seek their approval, to inform.

Vladimir Ustinov

Therefore, other branches of the same case were separated into individual criminal proceedings.

Kenneth Davis

Throughout our history, there has been an ebb and flow of one branch being a little more powerful, the president getting a little more power, then congress being more powerful, ... Don't Know Much About History.

Tom Rice

Our Founding Fathers created the Executive Branch to implement and enforce the laws written by Congress, and vested this power in the president.

Uday Kotak

Kotak Mahindra Bank has very significant presence in the West and the North, and our total branch network between these two regions is 80 per cent, and in case of ING Vysya Bank, their network in South is 64 per cent of their total branch network.

Todd Pinkston

I think it was a distraction because a lot of people let it be one. But I think guys were drained to a point where every day you look on TV and see something going on as far as 81 and Donovan or 81 and the organization. People got tired of looking at it.

John Fox

I think I was too drained by then to get too high. All of us were pretty drained. There was a lot of emotion. I've never seen a game quite like that. There were as big a peaks and as big a valleys as you could have. It was as good a football game as I've ever been involved in.

Rupert Evans

I was watching a Storyville documentary called 'Blackfish' about killer whales in captivity. I was emotionally drained by the end. It revealed a real behind-the-scenes truth on what we do with animals.

Vincent Creel

We drained Food Giant for the public safety people. The mayor commandeered the store.

Jenna Morasca

As caretakers, we feel drained when caring for another, and in order to take care of someone else, we need to take care of ourselves at the same time.

Harry Shearer

When (Pryor) took the 'N' word and repeated it in so many contexts and made you laugh at it so much, by the end he had drained that word of its power to sting and hurt,

Ella Henderson

If I feel like I've completely drained every ounce of energy out of me for this song, and I can't go any further with it, then I stop, even if the song is unfinished. Most of the time, when it's finished, it's because I've used every ounce of me to write it.

Jason Brown

You?re just drained after a game like this. With all the energy and emotion you put in, with the way (DeSalvo) pitched, you have to get that win. It would have been so disheartening to have lost.

Delos Smith

The consumer, I think, is healing. There's still a lot of market share out there. I don't think we've drained anything away.

Bob Morton

When I was a kid we really enjoyed their visits. They were so open and friendly and generous with the hugs, and they spoke with these thick accents. We loved listening to them.

Lisa Cholodenko

I have enjoyed writing my own stuff, and it's been a privilege to be able to scrap some money together to be able to make films from my own scripts.

Alexa Vega

I don't expect people who've enjoyed 'Spy Kids' will enjoy 'Repo! the Genetic Opera!'

Nick Robinson

I realized I really enjoyed theatre, so I did shows up in Seattle like 'To Kill a Mockingbird' and 'Lost in Yonkers.'

Bill Belichick

When I was out there, I really enjoyed talking to Al,

Leonard Susskind

I have always enjoyed explaining physics. In fact it's more than just enjoyment: I need to explain physics.

Michael Quinn

Three terms are up and Gary and Greg won?t be running so I thought it made sense to stay on. It?s been a great experience and I have enjoyed it.

Theodor Mommsen

For a whole generation after the battle of Pydna, the Roman state enjoyed a profound calm, scarcely varied by a ripple here and there on the surface.

John F. Kerry

I love to play guitar and hack around. I was in a band when I was in high school. I never learned to play very well, but I enjoyed it.

Stacy Robinson

Very angry, there is no excuse for this.

Angela Merkel

We stand by the constitution. The pause for reflection is not an excuse for putting it aside,

Joe Mullen

We're not going to make any excuses. We outplayed them for two periods and held them to nine shots (in that stretch). Then for whatever reason, we let them back in the game in the third.

Benjamin Franklin

Necessity is our quickest excuse.

Allen Iverson

We have to get it done, that's no excuse.

Dan Sanso

We have no excuse for how we played. (Leonard) had to play in the rain, too. We just lacked the knockout punch.

Ed Smith

We were anything but nervous. They are a loose group. Maybe they're too loose. And we were healthy. No excuses for our play tonight.

Brad McClellan

We're going to have every 'i' dotted and every 't' crossed. They're going to look for any excuse to throw out any signatures, so we think we're going to have more than enough.

Ray LaCroix

We're not a great free-throw shooting team. But there was no excuse today.

Mario Testino

I studied law, economy, international relations, communications, in order to find what I would do. It's the hardest thing, being 17 and trying to find what to do in life. You've explored so little. I'm lucky: My parents let me explore.

Jack Kenny

I feel that I accomplished what I set out to do: A solid family drama, with lots of humor, that honestly explored the lives of the Webster family. Good, flawed people who loved each other no matter what.

Robert Brown

Gigadibs the literary man, / Who played with spoons, explored his plate's design, / And ranged the olive stones about its edge.

Michael Allweiss

I think the industry would view this as a significant defeat. This allows us to explore, I think, what they've been able to prevent from being explored in the past. It's very meaningful.

Tanith Lee

My interest in reincarnation... I explored in a number of works.

Jack Quinn

It's the United States Senate. I'm sure some will try to use it as a platform, I do think there are a good many questions of that kind that need to be explored thoroughly with this man.

Robbie Robertson

It made me look like I all of a sudden stumbled upon my heritage. It's not like that. You don't stumble upon your heritage. It's there, just waiting to be explored and shared. But what you need is a sign that somebody wants to share this with you.

Michael W. Smith

The atoll was poorly explored with only about 35 fish species known previously. Including the new species we found in total about 200 species of fish.

Lee Rubin

They probably would not have explored the opportunity had they not had the exposure.

Charles de Gaulle

For all of us Frenchmen, the guiding rule of our epoch is to be faithful to France.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is sufficiently humiliating to our nature to reflect that our knowledge is but as she rivulet, our ignorance as the sea. On points of the highest interest, the moment we quit the light of revelation we shall find that Platonism itself is intimately connected with Pyrrhonism, and the deepest inquiry with the darkest doubt.

Charles Caleb Colton

Faith and works are necessary to our spiritual life as Christians, as soul and body are to our natural life as men; for faith is the soul of religion, and works the body.

Charles Dickens

When men are about to commit, or sanction the commission of some injustice, it is not uncommon for them to express pity for the object either of that or some parallel proceeding, and to feel themselves, at the time, quite virtuous and moral, and immensely superior to those who express no pity at all. This is a kind of upholding of faith above works, and is very comfortable.

Charles Stanley

God allows us to dace difficulties so that our faith will be stretched and refined. The trials we face provide an excellent opportunity for us to declare our dependence on God and not on ourselves. The way we win the battle with discouragement is by humbling ourselves before God and telling Him that we need Him. There is only one way to do this, and it is through prayer.

Charles Stanley

Prayer is an act of faith. Just by praying to God, you are declaring our trust in someone other than yourself. Your faith is increased as you pray and watch how God answers your prayers. God says in Jeremiah 33:3, Call to Me and I will answer you, and I will tell you great and mighty things, which you do not know. God is awesome in power and there is never a time when He is not beside you. He is faithful and holy.

Charles Spurgeon

Wash your face every morning in a bath of praise.

Charles Spurgeon

Faith is the fountain, the foundation and the fosterer of obedience.

Charles Spurgeon

Faith obliterates time, annihilates distance, and brings future things at once into its possession.

John Galliano

The problem is with men. I know I shouldn't say this, but they've shrouded and hidden women to hide their incompetence.

Rep. Gannon

For too long, it's been a hidden issue in Florida. It's a testament to our state that we're going to try to stop this.

Don Hewitt

He had a knack for getting things out of people that others never got out of them niches and hidden moments that they never shared with anyone. But they did with Mike.

Simonides Simonides

There is no better test of a man's work than time, which also reveals the thoughts which lay hidden in his breast.

Tim Carter

There are so many things that can go wrong and so many hidden costs.

William Stafford

My name is William Tell:when little oppressions touch mearrows hidden in my cloakwhisper, "Ready, ready.

William Cowper

Our wasted oil unprofitably burns,Like hidden lamps in old sepulchral urns.

Mo Ibrahim

Modern slavery is a hidden crime and notoriously difficult to measure.

Steve Greene

We're not scary and we don't have a hidden agenda,

Charles Sumner

A nation cannot afford to do a mean thing.

Charles de Gaulle

No, I'm not talking about the Russians; I mean the Germans. In spite of everything, to have pushed so far!

Charles de Lint

Not everything has to mean something. Some things just are.

Charles de Lint

I'm not as trusting as people think I am. Sure, I see the best in people, but that doesn't mean it's really there.

Charles de Lint

Labels don't mean much to me one way or another -- except when they close the minds of potential readers. I'd much rather we do away with genres and simply file everything under fiction. I know it can work -- one of my favourite record stores (Waterloo Music in Austin) simply files everything alphabetically and no one seems to have much problem finding what they're looking for.

Charles de Lint

There are as many stories to be told as there are people to tell them about; only the mean-spirited would consider there to be a competition at all.

Charles Caleb Colton

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.

Charles Caleb Colton

Alas! What is man? Whether he be deprived of that light which is from on high, of whether he discard it, a frail and trembling creature; standing on time, that bleak and narrow isthmus between two eternities, he sees nothing but impenetrable darkness on the one hand, and doubt, distrust, and conjecture, still more perplexing, on the other. Most gladly would he take an observation, as to whence he has come, or whither he is going; alas, he has not the means: his telescope is too dim, his compass too wavering, his plummet too short.

Charles Caleb Colton

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.

Hector Tobar

You cannot bribe a Chilean police officer - I know this firsthand.

Bill Dunn

She was D.O.A. when officers got to the scene.

Mike Sheffield

Mr. Torres tried to kill Officer Brenda Bermudez.

Jay Wright

Getting on the bus, police officers know everybody. People walking down the street know all the players' names. It is fun, but it is a challenge.

Tommy Davis

We have over 27 students accounts, approximately 30, that said no officer was struck,

Michael Lambert

You can even see the officers kneeling on her to pull the restraints tighter. No there was no reason to put her in restraints.

Gerald Smith

The association had directors, officers and, by 1870, had been opened to stockholders.

Barbara Matthews

Right now police officers are trying to keep people off the road.

Lawrence Eagleburger

In a time of constrained resources we will have to shift emphasis. but not necessarily from the traditional Political Officer to the traditional Economic Officer.

Neil Fallon

We want to thank (the service members) the only way we know how that's by playing rock 'n' roll.

Chord Overstreet

Ive been playing music since I was born.

Mark Mooney

(Walker) has just been playing real well. She runs real hard, she is just up and down the court.

Jenic Tumaneng

We stuck with them. We'll keep playing and keep working at it.

Lucas Black

When I'm not acting, I'm playing golf. I'm pretty passionate about it.

Nigel Kennedy

Why would you want to stand there waving a stick when you could be playing an instrument?

Wayne Grant

When you start playing these better region teams, you have to play well.

Beau Bridges

And I like music, too, I like playing music.

Antony Garrett Lisi

My friends are all geeks. And many of them are scientists who love playing outside as much as I do.

Evan Savoie

He walked to me and he shook my hand.

Jim Towey

I would be shook up if I were part of a shake-up.

William Hamilton

Truth, like a torch, the more it's shook it shines.

Paul Chryst

All I did, I shook his hand, just said, 'Hello' and that was about it.

Charles Dudley Warner

It is difficult to be emphatic when no one is emphatic on the other side.

Charles Spurgeon

God works, and therefore we work; God is with- us, and therefore we are with God, and stand on His side.

Chloe Grace Moretz

An actor always goes to the safe side.

Daniel Hernandez

We know what it is like to be on the other side of this,

Dave Gahan

Vocally, I really like going into the darker side of myself.

Jack Thompson

The other side wants to make me the issue,

Madeleine Albright

There are a lot of similar aspects in all the religions. The question is which side of it you hold up.

Barry Commoner

No action is without its side effects.

Derek Bailey

I have always been attracted to the cottage industry side of this business.

Sathya Baba

Whenever you undertake to do something, do it thoroughly or not at all.

John Ortberg

I need an inspiration that is grounded in reality while thoroughly transcendent.

Jacob Whitesides

I appreciate a lot of singer-songwriters that the normal person doesn't, but I feel like everyone thoroughly enjoys an Ed Sheeran show.

David Quammen

Whether you like the label 'Anthropocene' or not, whether you find the prospect of what it signifies inevitable or appalling (or both), the time has come to address its implications, as these thoughtful, battle-tested authors attempt to do. The time has long since come.

Cesare Pavese

Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.

William Shakespeare

That is not the best sermon which makes the hearers go away talking to one another and praising the speaker, but which makes them go away thoughtful and serious, and hastening to be alone.

Brad Bird

Look, it's a mainstream animated movie, and how often are those considered thought provoking? It's meant to be a great time at the theater, but it's also designed to work on more than one level

Arthur C. Clarke

It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything.

C. S. Lewis

Your Majesty would have a perfect right to strike off his head," said Peridan. "Such an assault as he made puts him on a level with assassins." "It is very true," said Edmund. "But even a traitor may mend. I have known one that did." And he looked very thoughtful.

Lionel Blue

I have begun to sympathetically understand Paul, though I don't like him much.

William Shakespeare

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

John Hughes

What a director should be doing is making it appear as though there was no script.

Alan Chambers

One of the many evils this world has to offer is the sin of homosexuality. Satan, the enemy is using people to further his agenda to destroy the Kingdom of God and as many souls as he can.

Bernard Meltzer

Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.

Nathan Thompson

I think using this lumber makes it very unique.

Jon Johansen

Basically, if I have no intention of using a service then I won't bother reverse-engineering it.

Aerin Lauder

I think every woman should be using a foundation, whether it's liquid or compact.

Lucy Liu

When you work with chains or any kind of weapons, or just when you're using hand-to-hand combat, you are going to get hurt.

Tom Jenkinson

This current round of gigs, I'm just doing it using pure electronics.

Ban Ki-moon

We are using resources as if we had two planets, not one. There can be no 'plan B' because there is no 'planet B.'

George Wald

The only use for an atomic bomb is to keep somebody else from using one.

Benjamin Franklin

He that would fish, must venture his bait.

Charles Babbage

I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing; and venture to throw it out with the hope of its receiving a full discussion among those who are most interestedin the subject.

Bill Gurley

Venture capital is unscalable. Production equals the time each partner has.

Ehud Barak

I delivered lectures, and I was also a consultant for international companies in finance, both private equity and big venture capital funds.

Bill Cunningham

I don't think we want to venture into that, if this is what they're saying.

Douglas Leone

The venture industry is both quite vibrant and quite competitive.

Albert Camus

Lucifer also has died with God, and from his ashes has arisen a spiteful demon who does not even understand the object of his venture.

George Eliot

[It is easier] to quell emotion than to incur the consequences of venting it.

Italo Calvino

It is only after you have come to know the surface of things ... that you can venture to seek what is underneath. But the surface of things is inexhaustible.

Nancy Roman

I wondered had I really oversold the Hubble. I have to admit that, since, I have been convinced that I didn't.

Tim Hudson

I always wondered how it would be to put on a Braves uniform and play in Atlanta.