Famous Quotes & Sayings

M. Night Shyamalan

I'm so consistent that my director's cuts are usually 20-25 minutes longer than the released version of the movies.

M. Night Shyamalan

You don't have your film finished when you have your director's cut finished. It's just a bunch of green screen.

M. Night Shyamalan

My directing style is long takes. The longer take I can do, the more I can think of not doing it in cuts, the better.

Malcolm Gladwell

People at CDC [Centers for Disease Control] who cut their teeth on diseases over the last 10 years have started to think of crime as another disease, and using some of these same concepts. It was something that was in the air in that world, but it was time to bust it out and apply it to any number of different social epidemics.

Malcolm Gladwell

An aggressive drug-testing program would cut down on certain abuses, but its never going to catch everyone - or even close to everyone.

Gail Collins

The whole student loan thing drives me completely nuts. If it wasn't possible for 18-year-olds to sign themselves up for tens of thousands of dollars in debt in order to pay their college bills, the state governments wouldn't have found it so politically easy to cut taxpayer support for public colleges and universities.

Freya Stark

Every victory of man over man has in itself a taste of defeat.... There is no essential difference between the various human groups, creatures whose bones and brains and members are the same; and every damage we do there is a form of mutilation, as if the fingers of the left hand were to be cut off by the right.

Fred Thompson

Play hardball with Musharraf, but don't cut off US aid.

Orison Swett Marden

The moment man cuts himself off from living connection with the human race and its needs, he begins to die from poor circulation.

Orison Swett Marden

Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away at our life statue, molding, modifying, shaping it. We are part of all we have met. Everything we have seen, heard, felt or thought has had its hand in molding us, shaping us.

Oliver Stone

But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The preacher's garment is cut according to the pattern of that of the hearers, for the most part.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind. The principle that sustains compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the fallopian tubes. Three generations of imbeciles are enough.

Olive Schreiner

It is the swimmer who first leaps into the frozen stream who is cut sharpest by the ice; those who follow him find it broken, and the last find it gone. It is the men or women who first tread down the path which the bulk of humanity will ultimately follow, who must find themselves at last in solitudes where the silence is deadly.

Emilie Autumn

I cut myself because you wouldn't let me cry. I cried because you wouldn't let me speak. I spoke because you wouldn't let me shine. I shone because I thought you loved me...

Emilie Autumn

My reasons to live Were my reasons to die But at least they were mine Now I've freedom unbound Cut the laces of life

Emile M. Cioran

Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

Ellen DeGeneres

And we certainly don't have full conversations on cellphones. You know? Usually the reception is so bad, but it's only bad on your side. The person talking to you has no clue. They're just rambling on and on. You've got your finger jammed in your ear, you're shushing people on the streets. You're ducked behind a dumpster so you can hear about your friend's new hair cut. What about the bangs are they shorter?! Are the bangs shorter?! The bangs!

Eric Ries

The attributes for entrepreneurs cut both ways. You need the ability to ignore inconvenient facts and see the world as it should be and not as it is. This inspires people to take huge leaps of faith. But this blindness to facts can be a liability, too. The characteristics that help entrepreneurs succeed can also lead to their failure.

Epicurus

A world is a circumscribed portion of sky... it is a piece cut off from the infinite.

Henri Matisse

You want to paint? First of all you must cut off your tongue because your decision takes away from you the right to express yourself with anything but your brush.

Henri Matisse

Whoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by cutting out his own tongue

Helen Slater

The way I spend my time is very isolated and cut off.

Hilary Putnam

Cut the pie any way you like, "meanings" just ain't in the head!

Heraclitus

Doctors cut, burn, and torture the sick, and then demand of them an undeserved fee for such services.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Who cuts is easily wounded. The readier you are to offend the sooner you are offended.

Joe Wright

My first cut that I showed the studio was probably 2hrs 20min.

Joe Girardi

That's why I cut my hair so short. It was getting a little gray.

Joan Didion

I was supposed to have a script, and had mislaid it. I was supposed to hear cues, and no longer did. I was meant to know the plot, but all I knew was what I saw: flash pictures in variable sequence, images with no 'meaning' beyond their temporary arrangement, not a movie but a cutting-room experience.

Joan Jett

Cutting meat out of your diet is the best thing you can do for animals and your own health.

Jim Morrison

I've always thought comparisons were useless and ugly. It is a short cut to thinking.

Eric Snow

Whenever we don't turn the ball over, we're pretty productive. When you're turning the ball over, you're cutting down on offensive opportunities.

Eric Stoltz

I try to read all news sources - not just CNN or FOX, but worldwide papers and journals, to get opinions from every end of the spectrum - and then I like to try to find out the cut and dried facts - and go from there.