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

Bryan Singer

I know what to do with the camera because I see the giant in the camera when I'm operating it live on the set.

Bob Huggins

The only reason he came back (for his senior year) is because he wanted to spend another year with his teammates and win a national championship. That was the No. 1 goal in his mind. When I walked out on the floor, that was the first thing he said.

Mickey Hatcher

The one thing you have to do is always play the game hard and people will love you. And every day, whether it was practice or on the field, he set the tone for the organization. When every young kid came up, they could see him playing hard and I think it was really an inspiration for that organization. He got them two championships. He was a great leader.

Carlos Levorin

The possibility of an upgrade in Mexico's rating came out, the Mexican stock market went up and the other markets followed suit.

Jim Owens

The person that was sitting in front of me came flying over the desk, ... and it was then that the sound registered.

David LaChapelle

I'm part of what I consider the entertainment industry. For my photos to be entertaining, they have to be provocative and new.

E. Hurley

We are providing a stage where everyone can participate and everyone can be seen. We see ourselves as a combination of America's Funniest Home Videos and Entertainment Tonight.

Mike deMaine

We're interested in providing something for people of all types and ages. It's going to be family-friendly, and there'll be entertainment between each inning.

Eartha Kitt

Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.

Dick Cavett

I've actually gotten so I don't associate television with entertainment very much.

Chad Hurley

YouTube is becoming much more than an entertainment destination.

Charice Pempengco

I want to be an entertainment lawyer so I'll be in the business still.

Kevin Spacey

We're going to see a lot of companies that have been portals of entertainment become producers.

Ellen Wheeler

We're introducing the show to a new generation of people who are getting their entertainment in many, many different arenas,

Charles Caleb Colton

That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources.

Chris Bosh

I can motivate myself fine just by wanting to be my best.

Jean Bruyere

The pleasure of criticizing robs us of the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things.

Janis Serrano

We're in a rebuilding process, we're doing fine for where we're at. We're just trying to improve on their race techniques and have them do their best.

Tim Zagat

Where it was once de rigueur to wear a tie in New York's finer establishments, that practice is now de rigor mortis.

Sam Perlozzo

When you talked about the Orioles, you talked about Elrod. Elrod Hendricks was one of the finest men I have ever met.

Bertolt Brecht

The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.

Bertolt Brecht

The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can't do it all by themselves.

Bill Belichick

We're not polishing fine china here.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.

Charles Caleb Colton

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

Charles Caleb Colton

Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.

Charles Dickens

The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away.

Charles Dickens

So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!...

Charles Dickens

But, in this separation I associate you only with the good and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you have done far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

Charles Dickens

Let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

Charles Simmons

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Mariel Hemingway

I've known for years that you're supposed to be present. I know that thinking about what's happened or thinking about what I want is not going to get me anywhere, but until I quit doing it I'm not present.

Delos Smith

When you take a look at what's happened in the last month, you see the same kind of pace?right on down the line. It shows a nice, steady moderate pace, which is what you want.

Holly Holm

It doesn't matter what odds are on paper or what's happened before. It matters what happens that moment.

Jon Gruden

We're not going to sit here and try to justify what happened two or three years ago and what happened last year,

Nicholas Burns

We remember what happened in March 2004, ... There is no place for that in U.N.-sponsored negotiations.

Zell Miller

What has happened to the party I've spent my life working in?

Edward Keon

What has happened over the past several months is valuations have come down a lot to where we think stocks are pretty reasonably valued here.

Kapil Sibal

What has happened in Gujarat has shocked us all. We don't want the situation to worsen and spread to other parts of the country.

Kapil Sibal

What has happened in Gujarat has shocked us all, ... We don't want the situation to worsen and spread to other parts of the country.

David Mitchell

Assured her I’ve never loved anyone except myself and have no intention of starting now,

Deepak Chopra

EVERYTHING that happens in the universe starts with an INTENTION

Viviane Reding

We have no intention to regulate the internet,

Meir Sheetrit

We have no intention of starving the Palestinian people.

Nick Saban

We have no intention of moving or trading Jason Taylor .

Marty Dickens

We have no intention of leaving this building.

Moshe Sharett

I imagine that the intention is to get rid of them. The interests of security demand that we get rid of them.

Brett Favre

My intention... isn't to create controversy.

Deepak Chopra

Intentions compressed into words enfold magical power.

Nicholas Negroponte

We all learned how to walk and talk by interacting with our environment, with real goals and rewards.

Jordan Spieth

Whenever the heat's on, my whole life, I've just kind of learned to focus a little more.

Michael Brown

We've been able to put those things we've learned in the past in place and save many more structures,

Dave Nutting

We're a young team and I think we learned a valuable lesson. And we'll know what it takes to win in the playoffs next year. I couldn't be prouder of the guys.

Melissa Leo

Through all of this lovely interviewing, and nice things people say, and the rest of it, I have learned that I am an actor. That is my profession. That is my job. That is how I make a living. So I am just out there making a living.

Courtney Beasley

We're just going to get better. We learned a lot as a team, and I know I learned a lot as a player. Now, we have to take what we've learned and get better.

Tracy Morgan

If there's one thing I've learned in my life, it's that curiosity might kill cats, but it doesn't kill people.

King Bach

I just use all the skills that I learned in film school, and I just incorporate them into my sketches. People don't realize that, with a story, there has to be a beginning, middle and end. There has to be a problem and a resolution. Just because it's six seconds doesn't mean it's not a story.

Junior Seau

From my old neighborhood, I learned nothing was guaranteed, not even life itself. You better get it today, because tomorrow is not promised.

Dylan Moran

I'm Irish, yeah, but I don't need to get up on a soapbox about it.

Cate Blanchett

I'm not sitting on a soapbox telling women what they should and shouldn't do, but I know what works for me.

Jude Law

I've always liked what Thomas More said in Utopia, which is that in Utopia every person is allowed their own lifestyle and religion but no one is allowed to stand on a soapbox and tell others that theirs is right. I thought that was brilliant. Brilliant.

Laurell K. Hamilton

I'm not terribly fond of soapboxes.

John Grisham

One thing you really have to watch as a writer is getting on a soapbox or pulpit about anything. You don't want to alienate readers.

Charles Caleb Colton

Where thou perceivest knowledge, bend the ear of attention and respect; But yield not further to the teaching, than as thy mind is warranted by reasons. Better is an obstinant disputant, that yieldeth inch by inch, Than the shallow traitor to himself, who surrendereth to half an argument.

Charles Caleb Colton

When you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Charles Stanley

If you tell God no because He won't explain the reason He wants you to do something, you are actually hindering His blessing. But when you say yes to Him, all of heaven opens to pour out His goodness and reward your obedience. What matters more than material blessings are the things He is teaching us in our spirit.

Charles Spurgeon

I am content to live and die as the mere repeater of Scriptural teaching - as a person who has thought out nothing and invented nothing - but who concluded that he was to take the message from the lips of God to the best of his ability and simply to be a mouth for God to the people. - mourning much that anything of his own should come between - but never thinking that he was somehow to refine the message or to adapt it to the brilliance of this wonderful century and then to hand it out as being so much his own that he might take some share of the glory of it.

Charles Spurgeon

Rest assured that the most fervid revivalism will wear itself out in mere smoke, if it be not maintained by the fuel of teaching.... Sound teaching is the best protection for the heresies which ravage right and left among us.

Charles Spurgeon

If there is any verse that you would like left out of the Bible, that is the verse that ought to stick to you, like a blister, until you really attend to its teaching.

Alan Greenspan

If we are to remain preeminent in transforming knowledge into economic value, America's system of higher education must remain the world's leader in generating scientific and technological breakthrough, and in meeting the challenge to educate workers.

Alan Bradley

TV and film taught me to think cinematically. Teaching others to edit, for example, provides a great deal of insight into the millions of ways in which given elements can be put together to tell a story.

Alan Arkin

"What I've learned about teaching is to refer back to the root of that word, which is educo, which means "to pull from." Education does not mean jamming information into somebody's head. Rather, it's that ancient idea that all knowledge is within us; to teach is to help somebody pull it out of themselves."