Famous Quotes & Sayings

The best way to learn how to work with actors is to have had experience of trying to act yourself - it will teach you humility if nothing else.

The living cell almost always contains, locked in its interior, the visible or invisible products of its physiological activity or its nourishment.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

What if the slowdown in merger activity isn't cyclical, but secular? What if corporations have learned the lessons of so many companies before them that the odds of a successful merger are no better than 50-50 and probably less? Is it possible that the biggest deals have already been done?

Ansel Elgort

My dad was always taking photos of us at home, and even on set - he'd bring us along and stick us in the photos in the background. It was almost the beginning of acting for me, like, 'Hey, you go over there and play basketball in the background, and don't even think about the camera.'

Arlie Russell Hochschild

We think we're saving time with microwaves, cell phones, beepers, computers and voice mail, but often these things help us create the illusion of getting somewhere - and they foster a chain of constant activity. We're really just squeezing extra activity into every minute that we gain.

Adam Hamilton

Why did the earthquake and tsunami occur in Japan? Was it the act of an angry God? No, it was the result of the movement and collision of the earth's tectonic plates - a process driven by the earth's need to regulate its own internal temperature. Without the process that creates earthquake, our planet could not sustain life.

Ai Weiwei

People are always wondering if I am an artist or political activist or politician. Maybe I'll just clearly tell you: Whatever I do is not art. Let's say it is just objects or materials, movies or writing, but not art, OK?

Adam McKay

Every time a pundit or elected official is on any TV news program, it should be a polite formality to mention that GE has made such and such billions off the war in Iraq by selling arms or that Murdoch is a right-wing activist with a clear stake in who wins and who taxes his profits the least.

Think before you act and act on what you believe.

Sonam Kapoor

I am very ambitious and have set goals for myself. I really don't keep a tab on what my contemporaries are doing. I want to push myself as an actress and don't want to get into the rat race. With every film, I want to grow as a person and an actress. The character I play needs to change me in real life.

Dave Eggers

You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need you. They need your actual person: your physical personhood and your open minds and open ears and boundless compassion, sitting next to them, listening and nodding and asking questions for hours at a time.

Brendan Myers

The sacred, I shall say, is that which acts as your partner in the search for the highest and deepest things: the real, the true, the good, and the beautiful. The name I'd like to give to the kind of relationship that gives us a chance to find such things is a 'circle of meaning.'

Carol Bellamy

The dream of the Convention was born from the that children and their needs were not been considered when policies were being made, laws passed or actions undertaken.

Carl Honore

When moms stayed home, it was easier just to let the kids play around the house. But as women entered the workplace and the extended family dissolved, someone else had to pick up the slack on the child-care front. Extracurricular activities fit the bill perfectly, promising not only supervision but also enrichment.

Mahatma Gandhi

I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. Seeing, therefore, that I did not desire more children, I began to strive after self-control. There was endless difficulty in the task.

Zig Ziglar

Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.

Barbara Mandrell

I'd love to be in a feature film, and I don't just mean in a starring role - it could be a small part. And I would like to act in television, to do comedy and drama.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

William Blake

Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Roscoe Conkling was a man of superb courage. He not only acted without fear, but he had that fortitude of soul which bears the consequences of the course pursued without complaint.

Ariel Pink

I had a very active inner life as a kid. There's a good album or two worth of stuff that I can bring out on a rainy day if I have a loss for inspiration or whatever - even now.

Anushka Sharma

I'd rather shut myself in a room for six months than act in a bad movie.

Anupam Kher

Drama school, you know, I own an acting school, Actor Prepares.

Ellen Johnson

We have shattered the glass ceiling theory, and I hope women will seize the moment to become active in civil and political affairs,

Zhu Rongji

We have set the target for the average annual economic growth rate in the 10th Five Year plan period. Though slightly lower than the actual growth rate of the 9th Five Year plan period it is still fairly high,

We have serious concerns over the actions of this particular N.G.B..

We have seen this before. There has to be action that follows this, ... There is always a caveat or detail or it is conditional upon something else.

We have seen repeated sightings of people wandering around the airport(s) unauthorized, people that have not gone through the proper security check and the fact that at regional airports there are no security checks at all, ... The government should have acted much earlier.

We have seen increased mosquito activity in parts of the Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn and Staten Island,

This sends a message that we are aware of these business practices and will take action where appropriate.

This will lead to Singapore acting as a conduit to foreign investment in India.

This will give us the will and the tools to take the actions that will allow them to survive,

This will ensure that any future activities on the site, if any, can go forward unimpeded and unrestricted.