Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nora Ephron

One of the great things about movies is that it's just that short period of time. It's a bubble. The last thing you want to know is that Elizabeth and Darcy had a fight over how to treat the servants!

Nikola Tesla

Fights between individuals, as well as governments and nations, invariably result from misunderstandings in the broadest interpretation of this term.

Miranda Otto

Acting is a freelance career... you never stop having to prove yourself and fight for work.

Miranda Hart

I've never felt like a woman fighting in a male world; I've never felt penalised.

Johnny Isakson

You know, if you didn't pay close attention, you'd think we were the only people in Iraq and the only people fighting the terrorists.

Johnny Knoxville

People try to challenge me in bars every now and then. As long as they're not physical I just walk away, but if they get physical then I just end up in a fight.

John Wooden

Never complain about the officiating. It does no good. During the game I don't want to be fighting two opponents.

Meg Ryan

I don't think I'll ever be a producer who's into taking the meetings and fighting the big fights with studios. I really don't like that part. I'm much more interested in the material.

Maxine Waters

Policy, for the most part, has been made by white people in America, not by people of color. And they have tended to take care of those things that they think are important. Whether it's their agricultural subsidies, or other kinds of expenditures that are certainly not expenditures for poor people or for people of color. And so we have to band together and keep fighting back.

Max von Sydow

In a theater, the part is mine and I can control it as I want to. In the movies, I don't have direct contact, and I am fighting technical machinery

Max Stirner

The men of the future will yet fight their way to many a liberty that we do not even miss.

Maurice Jarre

With Hitchcock I had little relationship. I was called to replace Bernard Herrmann, his favorite composer, in Torn Curtain, after the bitter fight between them.

Matthew Broderick

You have to fight the green monster with your mind, not your fists.

Patricia Briggs

I was too busy fighting the river to worry about adjusting my beliefs in accordance to reality.

Patricia Briggs

Mercy," he said,"in a fair fight between near equals, I'll back you every time. It's the demons, vampires, and river devils I worry about, and I'm working on that.

Patricia Briggs

Dragons and legends...It would have been difficult for any man not to want to fight beside a dragon.

Patricia Briggs

I was going to fight vampires, and my name wasn't Buffy--I was so screwed.

Plato

Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead. Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

Plato

Be kind. Every person you meet is fighting a difficult battle.

Martin Seligman

Optimism is a tool with a certain clear set of benefits: it fights depression, it promotes achievement and produces better health.

Martin Sheen

We have to fight for something. It has to cost us. Our lives, our faith, have to cost us something; otherwise we're left to question its value.

Martin Sheen

The Irish tell the story of a man who arrives at the gates of heaven and asks to be let in St. Peter says, “Of course, just show us your scars.” The man says, “I have no scars”. St. Peter says, “What a pity was there nothing worth fighting for”?

Martin Sheen

Find something in your life worth fighting for

Martin Sheen

Oh you only fight the fights you can win? You fight the fights that need fighting!

Paulo Freire

[T]he more radical the person is, the more fully he or she enters into reality so that, knowing it better, he or she can transform it. This individual is not afraid to confront, to listen, to see the world unveiled. This person is not afraid to meet the people or to enter into a dialogue with them. This person does not consider himself or herself the proprietor of history or of all people, or the liberator of the oppressed; but he or she does commit himself or herself, within history, to fight at their side.

Paulo Freire

True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

I think Magnolia is one of the best films I've ever seen and I can say that straight and out and anybody that disagrees with me I'll fight you to the death. I just think it is one of the greatest films I've ever been in and ever seen.

Peter Drucker

Management and union may be likened to that serpent of the fables who on one body had two heads that fighting each other with poisoned fangs, killed themselves.

Peggy Fleming

When the going got tough, I really had to draw on many of the same competitive instincts I did when I was skating. I really had to put my head down and stay positive. I had to fight.

Paulo Coelho

only the defeated know LOVE. because it is in the realm of love that we fight our first battles - and generally lose ........

Paulo Coelho

Defeat is for the valiant. Only they will know the honour of losing and the joy of winning I am not here to tell you that defeat is a part of life: we all know that. Only the defeated know Love. Because it is in the realm of love that we fight our first battles – and generally lose. I am here to tell you that there are people who have never been defeated. They are the ones who never fought. They managed to avoid scars, humiliations, feelings of helplessness, as well as those moments when even warriors doubt the existence of God.’’ Manuscript Found In Accra – Paulo Coelho

Paulo Coelho

It is always far easier to have faith in your own goodness than to confront others ad fight for your rights...

Paulo Coelho

Do not forget: seek to win all your battles, including those you fight against yourself. Do not fear the scars. Do not be afraid of victory.