Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlie Chaplin

Where words leave off, gesture begins. Don't we speak of a person being speechless with rage, dancing with impatience, setting his teeth? The final motions of the soul are speechless, animal, grotesque, or of an incomparable beauty.

Charles Caleb Colton

Subtlety will sometimes give safety, no less than strength; and minuteness has sometimes escaped, where magnitude would have been crushed. The little animal that kills the boa is formidable chiefly from its insignificance, which is incompressible by the folds of its antagonist.

Charles Dickens

You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. Stick to Facts, sir!

Charles Dickens

Quadruped lions are said to be savage, only when they are hungry; biped lions are rarely sulky longer than when their appetite for distinction remains unappeased.

Alan Watts

...the whole universe is through and through the playing of love in every shade of the word's use, from animal lust to divine charity.

Alan Watts

At times almost all of us envy the animals. They suffer and die, but do not seem to make a "problem" of it.

Alan Watts

"It is essential to understand this point thoroughly: that the thing-in-itself, whether animal, vegetable, or mineral, is not only unknowable-it does not exist. This is important not only for sanity and peace of mind, but also for the most "practical" reasons of economics, politics, and technology.. This is not to say only that things exist in relation to one another, but that what we call "things" are no more than glimpses of a unified process. Certainly, this process has distinct features which catch our attention, but we must remember that distinction is not separation."

Alan Rickman

I'm very aware that when one is acting in the theater, you do become kind of animal about it. And you're reliant on instincts rather than tact a lot of the time.

Al Jourgensen

Rock n Roll Animal, the live album, is one of the greatest live albums out there. It was a huge influence on me.

Hugh Johnson

ultimately extremely good news for the health of the market.

Kevin Quinn

We started the program nine years ago with kids that were just learning to play hockey, so this is a fulfilling day for me and a lot of original parents who helped for the organization. We're extremely proud of these kids, particularly, and for all the people who laid the groundwork.

Robbie Stancil

We started out in a match-up zone. But we've worked and worked and worked on our man defense, and we did an outstanding job with it after the first quarter. I think we got Murdock extremely frustrated, and we kept (Marietta's guards) pretty contained.

Sam Allardyce

Where our finishing was very, very good last weekend it let us down tonight. We really should have put the game away in the first 90 minutes and we haven't done that and have paid a heavy price for it. We are extremely disappointed.

Nick Woodman

I'm just extremely excited to explore the planet that we're living on.

Kathy Olivier

We've turned into a possession team. That's what good teams do. To be honest, we learned that from Stanford. There's a team that's extremely disciplined and they don't make a lot of mistakes.

Don Flanagan

We want people to come support us, and I think they're going to see a great game. They are an extremely quick team that plays hard. It should be fun to watch.

Alexander Payne

'Independent' means one thing to me: It means that regardless of the source of financing, the director's voice is extremely present. It's such a pretentious term, but it's auteurist cinema. Director-driven, personal, auteurist... Whatever word you want.

Neel Mukherjee

Nostalgia can be extremely powerful in the right hands: think of the intense longing in the films Andrei Tarkovsky made after he left the U.S.S.R. They wring your soul.

Charles Caleb Colton

Atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illumination, except from those fagots which your mistaken zeal has lighted up for its destruction.

Alan Watts

Change is an illusion because we're always at the place where any future can take us.

Gary Loveman

Ultimately, we're just here to get our money back. We don't wish Mr Stewart any ill will. He was paid a lot of money to do something he did not do. It's merely a contractual matter.

William Congreve

Where modesty's ill manners, 'tis but fitThat impudence and malice pass for wit.

Bill Robinson

What success I achieved in the theatre is due to the fact that I have always worked just as hard when there were ten people in the house as when there were thousands. Just as hard in Springfield, Illinois as on Broadway.

Dick Durbin

Illinois Senator Paul Simon, once said "The test for a Supreme Court nominee is not where he stands on any one specific issue. The test is this: Will you use your power on the court to restrict freedom or expand it"?

Anton Chekhov

If many remedies are prescribed for an illness you can be sure it has no cure

Ariel Pink

It's not illegal to be an asshole.

Carol Moseley Braun

Illinois has less than a 12 percent black population and I won with 55 percent of the vote.

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.

David Giuntoli

We've been everywhere around Northwest. I was biking until the clouds came. We'll go in the woods, we'll go up and down the river. I love the woods in Sandy, but it's an hour away, so I don't love that.

David R. Brower

You don't need it, but will you take some advice from a Californian who's been around for a while? Cherish these rivers. Witness for them. Enjoy their unimprovable purpose as you sense it, and let those rivers that you never visit comfort you with the assurance that they are there, doing wonderfully what they have always done.

David R. Brower

Keep your rivers flowing as they will, and you will continue to know the most important of all freedoms-the boundless scope of the human mind to contemplate wonders, and to begin to understand their meaning.

David R. Brower

There are many ways to salvation, and one of them is to follow a river.

Buffalo Bill

After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.

Cesar Pelli

The Connecticut Center for Science and Exploration will be a building that will connect the excitement of science to the surrounding streets, river and highway. These forms are ambitious and dynamic. They appear to reach out beyond their physical limits.

Blake Shelton

I've only had one platinum album, and it's 'Red River Blue'.

Dean Acheson

You can't argue with a river, it isgoing to flow.You can dam it up?put it to useful purposes?deflect it, but you can't argue with it.

David Hockney

East Yorkshire, to the uninitiated, just looks like a lot of little hills. But it does have these marvelous valleys that were caused by glaciers, not rivers. So it is unusual.

Tom Rosenstiel

Some Americans will be curious, but I suspect most will be wary. Some will be infuriated.

Michael Boss

I would suspect we'll go out with a whimper.

Joe Roberts

I suspect we?ll see him in the top 10 for some time to come, and he?ll probably be at the top of the list.

Brad Bankston

I suspect this is something that will work in the future.

Kitty Lagareta

I suspect they'll go forward. I know how they feel about David.

Linda Spilker

I suspect there are more moons there than we know off.

Joe Haldeman

I suspect that war will become obsolete only when something worse supercedes it.

Phil Garner

I thought we were going to him today, but they told him (Saturday) he could not play. I suspected that was going to be the case.

Bill Clarke

We suspect that this is not unique to Walkerton,

Charles Dickens

things cannot be expected to turn up of themselves. We must in a measure assist to turn them up

Aiden Wilson Tozer

How completely satisfying to turn from [our] limitations to a God who has none.

Luc Ferrari

You turned on the radio and heard all kinds of things.

Denise Levertov

Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise.

Dave Orlandini

We've turned the corner. We still have a long way to go, but at least we can see the road. Before we couldn't even see the road.

Brian Smith

We're going to go down there, turn over every stone.

Andrew Klink

When we got that fumble, that was the turning point.

Monty Python

Well she turned me into a newt!""A newt?""I got better...

Tiffany Thornton

No one is perfect in this world, and we all have our battles, but it's the way we get back on our feet and turn it around that really counts.

Chris Chocola

Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States.

Denis McDonough

The bottom line is this. When it comes to preventing violent extremism and terrorism in the United States, Muslim Americans are not part of the problem, you're part of the solution.

Madeleine Albright

I have always seen the United States as a force of good. And I have learned that there is the idealistic part about what we can do at the U.N. and there is a doable part. And I have learned what is more doable.

Hillary Clinton

There is no part of the world that is irrelevant to the United States anymore.

Al Green

Pakistan's being an ally and helping the United States, we ought to show Pakistan that we are appreciative for the help that's been extended.

Dominique de Villepin

I grew up in the United States.

Abraham Lincoln

I will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. It is not the Constitution as I would like to have it, but as it is, that is to be defended. The Constitution will not be preserved & defended until it is enforced & obeyed in every part of every one of the United States. It must be so respected, obeyed, enforced and defended, and let the grass grow where it may.

Bruce Springsteen

You can't have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can't get on the train. There is a cracking point where a society collapses.

Bianca Jagger

The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery.