Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edie Falco

The world gets very small after a while, if you stick around long enough.

Eddie Albert

I don't really care how I am remembered as long as I bring happiness and joy to people.

Eckhart Tolle

Enlightened groups can exist, as long as the individuals' sense of identity is not derived from a mentally defined image of us.

The meetings are going on a lot longer than they should.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.

John F. Kennedy

The very word "secrecy" is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings. We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it. Even today, there is little value in opposing the threat of a closed society by imitating its arbitrary restrictions. Even today, there is little value in insuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it.

Jonathan Lipnicki

Sometimes you just gotta get in front of the camera because sometimes you have a long break between things, or you're auditioning and maybe nothing's really happening.

Jonathan Evison

I know I've lost my mind. But I'm not concerned, because it's the first thing I've lost in a long time that actually feels good.

Jonathan Edwards

If you long to be more like Christ, then act like Him, and walk as He walked.

Jonas Mekas

I'm a filmmaker, but my working procedures are different. All my basic structuring is done during the filming. You know, how long I keep the shot, the exposure or the speed - slower or faster, etc. That's structuring. And then there is a second stage of structuring that comes later when I begin to put those pieces together.

Jonah Goldberg

Progressivism, liberalism, or whatever you want to call it has become an ideology of power. So long as liberals hold it, principles don't matter.

Jonah Goldberg

And in the minds of progressives you are free to live anyway you want so long as it's progressive.

Jon Stewart

After a long investigation the SEC has fined Halliburton $7.5 million for issuing fraudulent statements exaggerating their profits in 1998 and 1999 during which their CEO was - oh who was it? Oh that's right. ... Cheney himself has not been implicated in the scandal and according to Cheney's lawyer there is no allegation whatsoever that he acted in any way other than in the best interests of the company and its shareholders. And you know what? It's still true today.

Jon Stewart

If I could be really competent, that goes such a long way toward things, because the majority of things are not competent. If I can be competent, and have moments of originality, that's all I would ask for.

Jon Stewart

You have to remember one thing about the will of the people: it wasn't that long ago that we were swept away by the Macarena.

Joyce Carol Oates

I learned long ago that being Lewis Carroll was infinitely more exciting than being Alice.

Joyce Carol Oates

Long ago I'd said that I am "fascinated by the phantasmagoria of human personality" - this is perhaps even truer now than years ago.

Katha Pollitt

For many people, feminism is one of those words of which, as St. Augustine said about time, they know the meaning as long as no one is asking.

Katey Sagal

I've never worked on a lawyer show for a long time, but I imagine the actors all start acting like lawyers.

Kate Winslet

There wasn't very much time between wrapping Revolutionary Road and starting The Reader. It was about five and a half months, which, for me, isn't that long. Some actors are very good at just going from one thing to another but I've always been a bit useless at that. The preparation time is important for me.

Katarina Witt

The desire to really compete again has been there for a long time.

Katarina Witt

I hope that I can maintain my skating as long as possible.

Justine Larbalestier

Zombies are the proletariat. Long live the workers!

Justin Timberlake

Teen pop will never die as long as there are teens and popular music. It just takes a different head.

Julie Delpy

I have a few other films in my life where I'm not attached and for a long time it was too complicated. Now it's starting to change because other actresses actually want to work with me, which is great.

Richard Dawkins

The history of science has been one long series of violent brainstorms, as successive generations have come to terms with increasing levels of queerness in the universe.

Richard Dawkins

[Creationists have] lost in the courts of law; they've long ago lost in the halls of science; and they continue to lose with every new piece of evidence in support of evolution. Taking offense is all they've got left.

Richard Whately

Trust, therefore, for the overcoming of a difficulty, not to long-continued study after you have once become bewildered, but to repeated trials at intervals.

Richelle Mead

I wanted someone a little more approachable," I explained. "What, like Captain McTropicalShorts back there? Where on earth did you find him anyway?" "Just did an Internet search." Feeling a need to defend my research, I added, "He comes highly recommended." "By who? Long John Silver?

Richelle Mead

How we love others is affected by how we love ourselves, and for the first time in a long time, I was whole.

Richelle Mead

At long last, she gasped out, "It’s Seth." "What happened?" I demanded. "Is he okay?" "He ended it." Her crying renewed. "He broke the engagement and told me it was over.

Richelle Mead

As long as we’re together, that’s how we’ll be. No trembling. No faltering. We’re unstoppable.