Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stanley Tucci

I mean, Scorsese's a genius, and that's one way of shooting.

Stan Lee

You can read a Shakespeare play, but does that mean you wouldn't want to see it on the stage?

Sophie Marceau

There's no point living, if you can't feel alive.

Sophie Swetchine

Truth only is prolific. Error, sterile in itself, produces only by means of the portion of truth which it contains. It may have offspring, but the life which it gives, like that of the hybrid races, cannot be transmitted.

Sonam Kapoor

If you're not good looking, you're considered a good actor, you know what I mean?

Solomon Schechter

By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else.

Solomon Ortiz

Supporting the troops has got to mean more than bumper stickers on pickup trucks, my friends. We need to give them what they need.

Tea Leoni

I just mean it's very difficult for me to watch my work, in some ways, because I am critical of what I didn't get across or I thought I was making one point

Tea Obreht

I like dark subject matter. I'm not sure what that means about me!

Taylor Momsen

I try not to focus on fame; I don't even really know what it means exactly because it's so fleeting.

Taylor Momsen

I mean yeah, your individual style is your impression to the world.

Taylor Momsen

The thing people don't understand is that touring or travelling or whatever you do in my position means you go to all these cool places all over the world, but you see everything from a car window. You don't get to see much of the city or meet people at all.

Taylor Swift

Just because you make a good plan, doesn't mean that's what's gonna happen.

Stephanie Coontz

Families have always been in flux and often in crisis; they have never lived up to nostalgic notions about "the way things used tobe." But that doesn't mean the malaise and anxiety people feel about modern families are delusions, that everything would be fine if we would only realize that the past was not all it's cracked up to be. . . . Even if things were not always right in families of the past, it seems clear that some things have newly gone wrong.

This means I must pay close attention to the writing, but equally so to the scientific background - which sometimes means doing fairly involved calculations.

Stanley Fish

The word "essay" means to try out, test, probe. In the essay style, successive clauses and sentences are not produced by an overarching logic, but by association; the impression that prose gives is that it can go anywhere in a manner wholly unpredictable.

Stanley Kunitz

I can hardly wait for tomorrow, it means a new life for me each and every day.

Stafford Cripps

Gandhi has asked that the British Government should walk out of India and leave the Indian people to settle differences among themselves, even if it means chaos and confusion.

Stan Brakhage

Peter Kubelka is the perfectionist of the film medium; and, as I honor that quality above all others at this time finding such a lack of it now elsewhere, I would simply like to say: Peter Kubelka is the world's greatest filmmaker - which is to say, simply: see his films!...by all means/above all else...etcetera.

Soren Kierkegaard

How ironical that it is by means of speech that man can degrade himself below the level of dumb creation -- for a chatterbox is truly of a lower category than a dumb creature.

Soren Kierkegaard

The presence of irony does not necessarily mean that the earnestness is excluded. Only assistant professors assume that.

Soren Kierkegaard

This fact, that the opposite of sin is by no means virtue, has been overlooked. The latter is partly a pagan view, which is content with a merely human standard, and which for that very reason does not know what sin is, that all sin is before God. No, the opposite of sin is faith.

Soren Kierkegaard

Faith is precisely the paradox that the single individual as the single individual is higher than the universal, is justified before it, not as inferior to it but superior - yet in such a way, please note, that it is the single individual who, after being subordinate as the single individual to the universal, now by means of the universal becomes the single individual who as the single individual is superior, that the single individual as the single individual stands in an absolute relation to the absolute.

Soren Kierkegaard

I stick my finger into existence.. it smells of nothing. Where am I? Who am I? What is this thing called the world? What does this word mean?

Soren Kierkegaard

Reflection is not the evil; but a reflective condition and the deadlock which it involves, by transforming the capacity for action into a means of escape from action, is both corrupt and dangerous, and leads in the end to a retrograde movement.

Soren Kierkegaard

Idleness, we are accustomed to say, is the root of all evil. To prevent this evil, work is recommended.... Idleness as such is by no means a root of evil; on the contrary, it is truly a divine life, if one is not bored....

Soren Kierkegaard

My tactics were, by God's aid, to employ every means to make it clear what the requirement of Christianity truly is.

Stephen Stills

I feel like I'm just learning how to play the guitar. I mean, really learning to play the guitar

Stephenie Meyer

History was easy, but I don't know about the Calculus. It seemed like it was making sense, so that probably means I failed.

Stephenie Meyer

Time means little; I never notice its passing.

Stephen Breyer

Independence means you decide according to the law and the facts.

Stephen Breyer

Independence doesn't mean you decide the way you want.

Stephen Breyer

I think whether you are a judge on my court or whether you are a judge on a court of appeals or any court, and lawyers too - and if you're interested in law yourself, you'll be in the same situation - you have a text that isn't clear. If the text is clear, you follow the text. If the text isn't clear, you have to work out what it means. And that requires context.