Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlotte Bronte

The City seems so much more in earnest: its business, its rush, its roar are such serious things, sights and sounds. The City is getting its living - the West-End but enjoying its pleasure.

Charles de Lint

Even, she thought, even without the gift of witchsight, there was more beauty to be found in the world than could ever be snared in language or music. And with the sight...

Charles de Lint

The fey wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them.

Charles Dickens

When we came within sight of the sea, the waves on the horizon, caught at intervals above the rolling abyss, were like glimpses of another shore with towers and buildings.

Bret Easton Ellis

People just... disappear," he says. "The Earth just opens up and swallows people," I say, some what sadly, checking my Rolex. "Eerie." Kimball yawns, stretching. "Really eerie." "Ominous." I nod my agreement. "It's just"- he sights, exasperated- "futile.

Dave Barry

What I want to know is: Why is it important to have visible stomach muscles? I grew up in an era (the Paleolithic) when people kept their stomach muscles discreetly out of sight.

Bryan Stevenson

But simply punishing the broken--walking away from them or hiding them from sight--only ensures that they remain broken and we do, too. There is no wholeness outside of our reciprocal humanity.

Cesare Pavese

Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other's sight, but in their own.

Jared Fogle

If people didn't give a damn, I wouldn't be in the position I'm in. I try not to lose sight of that.

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.

Charles Dickens

I distress you; I draw fast to an end.

Sarah Monette

The fountain of youth is like the monkey's paw in the W. W. Jacobs story. It never ends well.

Tom Guiry

I work in a hospital as a patient transporter to make ends meet for my three kids.

Tom Mison

Actors always lie about horse-riding, and it ends terribly. I can horse-ride... ish.

Brian Eno

Also something that you don't have to listen to from beginning to end - you can enter at any point and leave at any point.

Diane von Furstenberg

I can honestly say that I understand women very well. If you understand yourself, you understand women, because, in the end, all women are the same.

Michael Meacher

We did fail last night. It is a tragedy, but it's a reversible tragedy and we will now put together those last final loose ends that we didn't have the time to do last night.

Kofi Annan

Time and again, when member states and the governments are faced with an insoluble problem, and they're under pressure to do something, that something usually ends up being referred to the U.N.

Alan Moore

Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends.