Famous Quotes & Sayings

Douglas Adams

Let the past hold on to itself and let the present move forward into the future.

Douglas Adams

In the end, it was the Sunday afternoons he couldn't cope with, and that terrible listlessness which starts to set in at about 2:55, when you know that you've had all the baths you can usefully have that day, that however hard you stare at any given paragraph in the papers you will never actually read it, or use the revolutionary new pruning technique it describes, and that as you stare at the clock the hands will move relentlessly on to four o'clock, and you will enter the long dark teatime of the soul.

Douglas Adams

Moving from radio to television, you can take most of the words with you.

Douglas Adams

Religion ... has certain ideas at the heart of it which we call sacred or holy or whatever. What it means is, 'Here is an idea or a notion that you're not allowed to say anything bad about; you're just not. Why not? Because you're just not. If someone votes for a party that you don't agree with, you're free to argue about it as much as you like; everybody will have an argument but nobody feels aggrieved by it. ... But on the other hand, if somebody says 'I mustn't move a light switch on a Saturday', you say 'I respect that'.

Douglas Adams

A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the mind and body can connect with the universe and move bits of it about.

Doris Lessing

And then, not expecting it, you become middle-aged and anonymous. No one notices you. You achieve a wonderful freedom. It is a positive thing. You can move about, unnoticed and invisible.

Donna Mills

My message is - keep moving. If you do, you'll keep arthritis at bay.

Donald Hall

Horace, when he wrote the Ars Poetica, recommended that poets keep their poems home for ten years; don't let them go, don't publish them until you have kept them around for ten years: by that time, they ought to stop moving on you; by that time, you ought to have them right.

Donald Fagen

Anthemic rock music is inherently fascist - anything intended to move huge masses of people is politically offensive to me.

Donald Glover

I feel like... I don't have a wife, I don't have a kids, but... I see rappers and I'm like, I know that's fake. I know how much you make, this is all bullshit. But people are buying into it, and you shouldn't have that power. I'm legit trying to make honest moves so that all of us can grow. I want to make a show where my sister can work on and become a producer because she can't get in, no one's leting her. I want to make things where people can actually grow. A place where people can actually be honest.

Donald Glover

We're afraid to move on, that's why there's so much nostalgia on the internet... 'cause we don't wanna look forward, that's scary.

Dale Dauten

A meeting moves at the speed of the slowest mind in the room.

Dale Dauten

A meeting moves at the speed of the slowest mind in the room. (In other words, all but one participant will be bored, all but one mind underused.)

Dale Murphy

It's critical that the manager has the respect of players so he can make the moves that he feels is appropriate without having somebody go to the papers. They respect you. So you respect them back.

Dale Carnegie

We move toward what we picture in our minds.

Dale Carnegie

Try to fix firmly in your mind what you would like to do; and then, without veering off direction, you will move straight to the goal,

Craig McCracken

The shows are either 11 or 22 minutes and they move pretty quickly, and that's part of the charm of them - so it was just trying to keep that in mind and keep the energy of the story moving, even though we were dealing with a longer format.

Craig Venter

Moving forward in science is as much unwinding the distorted thinking of the past as it is putting a clearer idea on the table.

Corbin Bleu

I can move both of my eyes separately in different directions.

Constantin Stanislavski

When an actor is completely absorbed by some profoundly moving objective so that he throws his whole being passionately into its execution, he reaches a state we call inspiration.

Corbin Bernsen

I love to entertain, I love to make people laugh, cry, and move them, perhaps moving them in their lives.

Colin Powell

Economy's got to get moving, we've got to get the unemployment rate down. That may be the defining issue of the campaign.

Daniel Radcliffe

Every day the Daniels [Kwan and Scheinert] would come up with some amazing solution and [make it easy] to put yourself in their hands. There's something really lovely about knowing you're working with directors who know exactly what they want and exactly what they're looking for, and they're not going to move on until they have it. That, as an actor, frees you up a lot because you can [try different approaches] and they'll only use what's appropriate.

Daniel Radcliffe

I take things in better when I'm allowed to talk, and respond, and engage and move around a bit.

Daniel Clowes

Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie.

Dan Gillmor

We are moving rapidly from an era of an oligopoly of content providers to an oligopoly of content controllers: new choke points. This is not media consolidation in the traditional sense, where a few huge conglomerates used economies of scale to dominate journalism by dominating the local and national agendas. This consolidation, to a very few companies plus increasing government intervention, is even more dangerous — and information providers of all kinds are finally starting to grasp what’s happening.

Damon Albarn

The cartoon is a metaphor really for the fact that it's almost impossible in our celebrity obsessed culture to move around genres and sort of change you ideas, change your face, you know?

Cynthia Heimel

a car is just a moving, giant handbag! You never have actually to carry groceries, or dry cleaning, or anything! You can have five pairs of shoes with you at all times!

Corrine Brown

We are also ignoring and underfunding high speed rail which is one of the best ways to move citizens and improve congestion on our highways.

Courteney Cox

I would like to do a movie where the moments could be extended and you could have the freedom of that, but I'm not precious, if it moves the story and doesn't take away from it.

Courteney Cox

I feel weird if I can't move my face, and that one time I overdid it, I felt trapped in my own skin.

Courteney Cox

Aging gracefully is one thing, but trying to slow it down is another. Sometimes I use Botox. Compared to most, I use it very sparingly. One time I did too much, though. I feel weird if I can't move my face, and that one time I overdid it, I felt trapped in my own skin. I don't have a problem with any of that stuff; if it makes you feel better about yourself and it's done properly, then fine.

Clive Anderson

I think political correctness is a moving line.