Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas B. Macaulay

Cut off my head, and singular I am, Cut off my tail, and plural I appear; Although my middle's left, there's nothing there! What is my head cut off? A sounding sea; What is my tail cut off? A rushing river; And in their mingling depths I fearless play, Parent of sweetest sounds, yet mute forever.

Tim Tebow

You read glowing things and it doesn't feel deserved. You read things that are critical and it cuts you to the bone.

Tim Conway

I resent my barber when he charges the full cost after he cuts my hair, but he says he's charging me for finding it.

Tim Burton

Stick Boy liked Match Girl, He liked her a lot. He liked her cute figure, he thought she was hot. But could a flame ever burn for a match and a stick? It did quite literally; he burned up quick.

Thomas Langmann

Not many French producers work the American way. In France, the director decides everything, he has final cut. I'm trying to do things differently, without the Luc Besson solution.

Thomas Frank

Maybe that first, gigantic deficit the Reaganites piled up was an accident, just a combination of deluded 'supply side' tax cuts and a huge bag of good stuff for the Pentagon. But pretty quickly conservatives discovered that deficits, when done correctly, did something really cool: deficits defunded the Left.

Thom Gunn

I had assumed that I would age with all my friends growing old around me, dying off very gradually one by one. And here was a plague that cut them off so early.

Thomas Bernhard

One day you're cut off, at the very start you're cut off and can't go back, the language you learn and the whole business of walking and all the rest is for the sake of the single thought, how to get back again.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Great thoughts in crude, unshapely verse set forth lose half their preciousness, and ever must, unless the diamond with its own rich dust be cut and polished, it seems little worth.

Raymond Loewy

Form, which should be the clean-cut expression of mechanical excellence, has become sensuous and organic.

Vijay Singh

I hope she misses the cut. She doesn't belong here.

Vidal Sassoon

We learned to put discipline in the haircuts by using actual geometry, actual architectural shapes and bone structure. The cut had to be perfect and layered beautifully, so that when a woman shook it, it just fell back in.

Vidal Sassoon

My idea was to cut shape into the hair, to use it like fabric and take away everything that was superfluous.

Vidal Sassoon

I think that as good architecture enhances a city, a good cut enhances the definition and expression of a face.

Viggo Mortensen

People will like to say that 'Eastern Promises' is brutal, but the only reason they say that is because the scenes stick with them. They are realistic. They are in-your-face and you see the consequences. It's not a bunch of quick editing cuts.

S. E. Hinton

I gotta cut smoking or I'll never make track next year

Russell Wilson

I'm a big pasta guy, but I've cut it out to stay fast and lean.

Russell Means

When a woman grabs my braids and says "How cute!" I crab her breast and say "How cute!" She never touches me again!

Russell Peters

The fans in Canada have been there since day one. They're the originals. When people say that's your roots, that's literally my roots. I've just cut this tree off and replanted it somewhere else and it started growing. But the roots are there.

Ronald Fisher

the so-called co-efficient of heritability, which I regard as one of those unfortunate short-cuts, which have often emerged in biometry for lack of a more thorough analysis of the data.

Ronald Reagan

America's economic strength depends on industry's ability to improve productivity and quality and to remain on the cutting edge of technology, and that's why the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award is so important.

Ronald Reagan

Were not cutting the budget simply for the sake of sounder financial management. This is only a first step toward returning power to the states and communities, only a first step toward reordering the relationship between citizen and government.

Ronald Reagan

You on the cutting edge of technology have already made yesterday's impossibilities the commonplace realities of today.

Sam Keen

To love is to return to a home we never left, to remember who we are.

Sally Kirkland

I think you can really tell a good actor if you can put a camera on them and they can just talk and emote and react and you don't have to keep cutting away from them, because they are the language and the behavior. It's all a tour-de-force performance.

Sally Phillips

I always carry a pair of scissors around with me to cut things out of magazines.

Saadi

That knave preserves the pearl in his purse who considers all people purse-cuts.

Rumi

A craftsman pulled a reed from the reedbed, cut holes in it, and called it a human being. Since then, it's been wailing a tender agony of parting, never mentioning the skill that gave it life as a flute

Roy Campanella

I never want to quit playing ball, They'll have to cut this uniform off me to get me out of it

Susan Polis Schutz

Good friends must not always be together; It is the feeling of oneness when distant That proves a lasting friendship.

Susan Sarandon

In the theater, you're so much more in charge as an actor. For better or for worse, you know what the audience is seeing. But you can be acting your socks off on film, and then you see the movie, and the camera is on the other actor, or they've cut out the lines you thought were significant, or they've adjusted the plot. So much of it is out of your control.

Susan George

If you cut down a forest, it doesn't matter how many sawmills you have if there are no more trees.

Stuart Wilde

Lean toward love at all times, cut people slack, forgive and forget, and be kind, very kind; the more you do that, the less fear you will have. People will raise up to support you. Refuse to be scared in this lifetime.