Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hilary Mantel

Writers do not want to think they are less rational than other people, and at the mercy of compulsions, but in their hearts they know they are like those people who are taken for walks by their dogs, towed through hedges and ditches by an untrained sub-human energy.

Eli Wallach

When I saw the movie, I said, I wish I had heard the music. I would have ridden the horse differently.

Marianne Williamson

Only do what you feel called in your heart to do, and then give all of yourself to the task.

Meryl Streep

That is the simple secret. Always take your heart to work.

Meryl Streep

That consciousness of quality, and the need to demand it can galvanize your energies, not just in your work, but in a rigorous exercise of mind and heart in every aspect of your life.

Meryl Streep

I thought, "Why? and how did we evolve with this weak, and useless passion in tact within the deep heart's core?" And the answer as I've formulated it to myself is that empathy is the engine that powers all the best in us.

Edmund Spenser

This iron world bungs down the stoutest hearts to lowest state; for misery doth bravest minds abate.

Dogen

The zazen I speak of is not learning meditation. It is simply the Dharma gate of repose and bliss, the practice-realization of totally culminated enlightenment. It is the manifestation of ultimate reality. Traps and snares can never reach it. Once its heart is grasped, you are like the dragon when he gains the water, like the tiger when she enters the mountain. For you must know that just there (in zazen) the right Dharma is manifesting itself and that, from the first, dullness and distraction are struck aside.

Dogen

Let your heart go out and abide in things. Let things return and abide in your heart.

The quickest way to a man's heart is through his ribcage.

Derek Jeter

I always used to get in trouble for talking too much. When it was time for parent-teacher conferences, I remember that I was always embarrassed about what my parents would hear about me!

Brad Goreski

Sometimes when I'm being photographed, I hear the voice of this photographer who told me when I was about six while he was taking my school photo that I didn't have a nice smile, and I shouldn't smile in photos.

Bryce Harper

I love the way people talk crap. I hear it all the time. 'Overrated.' 'You suck.' I'll just do something to shut them up, like, 'I'll show you.'

This sets the stage for some very, very interesting hearings next week.

Nicole Sullivan

the only time I ever hear from old boyfriends is when they *69 me.

Al Jourgensen

Let's get with it, guys: You don't need to hear a Ministry song to get political. You should be political on your own. We're just a side project to society. So do I care what people think about me personally? No. I just do what I do.

We send our prayers and heartfelt condolences to the loves ones whose hearts are broken.

Alan Hansen

I hear people saying 'the way the game should be played'. Rubbish. That's the worst saying in football. You win the game, then worry about the way it should be played.

Bruce McGill

When I got the offer to do 'Weird Ernie' in the pilot, I was living in New York, and somebody had made a mistake, and they made an offer that was supposed to be $2,500 for the job, but they offered $25,000. I couldn't turn that down. I'd never heard of anything like that!

Ben Feldman

Usually, if I'm yelling at the TV, I'm in a bar. If I'm by myself, and it's not a game, I often find myself scolding reality stars that can't hear me through the television set.

Barry Corbin

I worked on 'Lonesome Dove' three weeks all together. When I heard they were doing it, I wanted to be involved since I'd read the book.

You are young at heart if you always feel like 18, even when you're over 50!

Unfortunately even young people can be struck without warning by a heart attack.

Two souls in one, two hearts into one heart.

When shooting a mime, don't use a silencer or his friends will hear you.

Marsha Norman

When she called me and I heard her voice, I just went to pieces. The rest of the day, I lost all my strength.

When seniors hear about graffiti, they think it's of the 'Harry Loves Susie' variety on the sidewalk. When they see a lot of graffiti they think it's just a mess. They don't know whether it's gang-related. They don't know what to look for.

But the poll shows that Celine Dion is hotter than hot right now and that the public still loves her song 'My Heart Will Go On.

Stephane Mallarme

But, O my soul, hear the song of the sailors.

Amy Heckerling

Everything you try to do in life, of any value, people are going to be saying, 'No, no, no.' You have to have the ability to not see that or hear that.

Video is so primal. When you can hear a person talking about the project, and can see his or her passion, it is unbelievably powerful. I don't want to make it seem like projects without a video fail.

Morgan Freeman

One of the things you can always depend on - this is one of the truths of the universe, and you heard it first from here - whatever we decide we want to do is what we do.

Jane Birkin

Big Ben... hearing the chimes makes me feel at home.