Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ken Kesey

If Shakespeare were working right now, he wouldn't be working with a quill pen. He would be working with whatever the cutting edge of theatrical drama would be. And this is where literature is headed.

Mike Cameron

I hope I'll get a good reaction tomorrow when I wake up. I wasn't cutting it loose yet. I'm still cutting my swing short, so that (stinks).

He sees the whole floor. He's always pointing people here, there and everywhere, and while he's pointing he sees somebody cutting back door and he throws a pass. He's the glue to their team, but they've got four other guys they throw out there that are pretty good, too.

I didn't expect to be that high (in the rankings). It's a big accomplishment, but it doesn't really mean anything. That's why, instead of cutting back, I'm going to work even harder in practice.

Indira Gandhi

Education is a liberating force, and in our age it is also a democratizing force, cutting across the barriers of caste and class, smoothing out inequalities imposed by birth and other circumstances.

Ingmar Bergman

It's a strange thing that every human being has a sort of dignity or wholeness in him, and out of that develops relationships to other human beings, tensions, misunderstandings, tenderness, coming in contact, touching and being touched, the cutting off of a contact and what happens then.

Jack Lemmon

I'd rather make the cut in the Crosby than win another Oscar.

Damien Chazelle

It's a weird thing where, especially in jazz, you have to totally mention cutting sessions and people one-upping each other and people being super, super tough on each other. And out of it emerge these genius musicians.

It's a great rivalry. Everyone knows now it comes down to playing hard, making shots and cutting down on mistakes. We've got to be ready to play.

Angelo Dundee

It will be like cutting the hair off a Goliath,

The two shots Liz Fischer hit were big, cutting into their lead.

They are what they are. There's not going to be any doctoring or cutting pieces out,

They will be cutting (rates) until they get some signs of rebound,

Dario Argento

For a long time, censors have been cutting my works. This makes me so sad, because many times they will tell me, 'Television won't like, so we have to cut, cut, cut!'

It's time to stop playing this game of cutting each other, and hurting each other.

George Osborne

It's not easy cutting welfare bills. It's not easy cutting the deficit.

It looks like the two leaders are cutting production somewhat. That's good news. It should help this overproduction problem we have right now.

Mao Zedong

A man's head is not like a scallion, which will grow again if you cut it off; if you cut it off wrongly, then even if you want to correct your error, there is no way of doing it.

Lou Dobbs

Competition is the hallmark of a free enterprise economy. For the past thirty years, however, corporate America has been doing everything it can to cut competition, with major corporations merging and consolidating at every opportunity.

John Ford

Diamonds cut diamonds.

John F. Kennedy

An across-the-board, top-to-bottom cut in personal and corporate income taxes ... to expand the incentives and opportunities of private expenditures.

Jonathan Groff

In theater, you're in charge of your performance, and at the end of the day you're the one who gets credit because you're in front of the audience doing it, and in film and TV it's the director who gets to decide when to cut to you on a line, which take he uses.

Jonathan Demme

I like finding a great shot and then just staying with it for a long time, not trying to pump things up with some kind of artificial energy by cutting.

Jonathan Davis

At first I was queasy; I'll never forget the sound of the scalpel cutting a body open. But it was so cool trying to work out how these people died.

Jon Stewart

The best-laid plans of mice and comedians usually wind up on the cutting-room floor.

Jon Stewart

Analysis of President Bush's tax plan has revealed that several elaborate tricks and gimmicks were used to make it look like a $1.35 trillion cut, but in reality it's going to be closer to costing $1.8 trillion. Critics claim it's math so fuzzy, you have to squint to see our nation's future of subsistence farming and post-apocalyptic roving motorcycle gangs.

Kate Winslet

Leo and I are kindred spirits — we’re cut from the same cloth,

Paramahansa Yogananda

Some people try to be tall by cutting off the heads of others.

P. C. Cast

She comes back Through blood by blood She returns Cut deep now Like me Humanity saves her Will she save me?

Peter Garrett

Look, very clearly there are things that need to be done urgently in relation to climate change, and of those the most obvious is to have an enforceable and equitable arrangement delivering deep cuts in emissions into the middle of the century.

Paul Watson

The Ady Gil, a Sea Shepherd vessel, it's a fast patrol boat, was sitting still in the water when the Shonan Maru #2 came by, deliberately turned into it, rammed it, cut it in half, sunk it and destroyed it.

Nobody at any time is cut off from God.

God holds each of us by a string. When we sin, we cut the string. But God ties it up again, making a knot. Each time our wrongdoing cuts the string, God ties another knot drawing us up closer to Him.