Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Hovhaness

This is not to say that the Scots are not fine people, but they were all sort of... well, my grandfather was a minister and sort of Protestant, and this was rather depressing to me.

Akhenaton

Scorn also to depress thy competitor by any dishonest or unworthy method; strive to raise thyself above him only by excelling him; so shall thy contest for superiority be crowned with honour, if not with success.

David Sedaris

It can take years. With the first draft, I just write everything. With the second draft, it becomes so depressing for me, because I realize that I was fooled into thinking I'd written the story. I hadn't-I had just typed for a long time. So then I have to carve out a story from the 25 or so pages. It's in there somewhere-but I have to find it. I'll then write a third, fourth, and fifth draft, and so on.

Dave Barry

What may seem depressing or even tragic to one person may seem like an absolute scream to another person, especially if he has had between four and seven beers.

Dave Barry

The United States tried, by depressing the clutch of diplomacy and downshifting the gearshift lever of rhetoric, to remain neutral, but it became increasingly obvious that the nation was going to get into a war, especially since it was almost 1812.

Dave Barry

You should never pick up a newspaper when you're feeling good, because every newspaper has a special department, called the Bummer Desk, which is responsible for digging up depressing front-page stories.

David R. Brower

Have fun saving the world, or you are just going to depress yourself.

Byron Katie

Mind is infinitely creative. And when it's not stuck, that's where the joy comes from. Something happens, and the way we think about it, understand it, see it, is actually hilarious, whereas before it used to depress us.

Caitlin Moran

What art should be about,' they will say, 'is revealing exquisite and resonant truths about the human condition.' Well, to be honest - no, it shouldn’t. I mean, it can occasionally, if it wants to; but really, how many penetrating insights to human nature do you need in one lifetime? Two? Three? Once you’ve realised that no one else has a clue what they’re doing, either, and that love can be totally pointless, any further insights into human nature just start getting depressing really.

Akira Kurosawa

A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.

Edward Furlong

It's really hard to find good movies, and that's pretty much what I try to find, good movies.

Charlize Theron

I want to be in a good movie, and so the narrative is way more important.

Ben Affleck

I kinda see my current position like this: Here's your five minutes in the toy store, so you gotta do all the good movies you can before 'Chuck Woolery' rings the bell.

Chris Evans

All my good movies, nobody sees.

Dick Van Dyke

I never made a good movie.

Claire Danes

Anybody who knows how to make a good movie, knows that it's a collaborative undertaking. To deny that its really dangerous.

Colin Cunningham

I just want to see a good movie. Fortunately, good movies come in all sorts of genres.

George Clooney

It's possible for me to make a bad movie out of a good script, but I can't make a good movie from a bad script.

Charles Spurgeon

Let me be as the bullock which stands between the plough and the altar, to work or to be sacrificed; and let my motto be, "Ready for either".

Alan Kulwicki

I have a motto: Work to become, not to acquire.

Ayumi Hamasaki

Of course, my motto is still, 'Work is work, private is private.

Albert Schweitzer

You ask me for a motto. Here it is: SERVICE.

Amy Poehler

That is the motto women should constantly repeat over and over again. 'Good for her! Not for me.'

Janice Dickinson

What's my motto when it comes to money? Don't put so much emphasis on it!

Al Capone

Public service is my motto.

Rudolph Valentino

What is your motto Mr. Valentino? Live and Let Live.

Dante Alighieri

Abandon hope, all ye who enter here. [Omnes relinquite spes, o vos intrantes]