Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Coverdale

Artistic development is a thing of the past, sadly.

David Arquette

I love round people, I love skinny people. I love people in general; we've got to get past labels and stop being so critical about everything.

E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

The past is the best way to suppose what may come.

Dylan Thomas

The function of posterity is to look after itself.

Douglas Alexander

It's important to learn the right lessons from the past.

Doug Stanhope

The fact is that really no comedian sets out to offend you. Some comics enjoy the challenge of taking a subject that is likely to be found offensive and trying to make it funny‚ but the object is still to make you laugh. Offense is only a calculated risk. It's highly unlikely that a comedian whose only goal was to repulse you would ever make it past an open-mic stage, far less build a long career of touring theatres and television appearances.

Douglas Adams

When you're cruising down the road in the fast lane and you lazily sail past a few hard-driving cars and are feeling pretty pleased with yourself and then accidently change down from fourth to first instead of third thus making your engine leap out of your hood in a rather ugly mess, it tends to throw you off stride in much the same way that this remark threw Ford Prefect off his.

Douglas Adams

Time affords us the ability to blame past errors on others while whole heartedly pronouncing our futures successes.

Douglas Adams

How do I know the past is not a fiction conceived to reconcile the difference between my state of mind and the present.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image.

Dale Carnegie

You and I are standing this very second at the meeting place of two eternities: the vast past that has endured forever, and the future that is plunging on to the last syllable of recorded time. We can't possible live in either of those eternities - no, not even for a split second. But, by trying to do so, we can wreck both our bodies and our minds. So let's be content to live the only time we can possible live: from now until bedtime.

Crispin Glover

In the past, I've never tried to discount or stop what people are saying because on some levels I find it interesting.

Craig Shirley

If we are to put the past on trial, where do we stop?

Craig McCaw

The past is past and I guess if you live in the past, you cease to live.

Claude Debussy

When asked by a grumpily puzzled professor what "rules" he followed, Debussy is said to have retorted, mon plaisir "whatever I please" and he further claimed that more was to be gained by watching the sun rise than by listening to the Pastoral Symphony. Although such remarks were intended to shock, they contain a core of Debussyan verity...

Claude Levi-Strauss

Enthusiastic partisans of the idea of progress are in danger of failing to recognize... the immense riches accumulated by the human race. By underrating the achievements of the past, they devalue all those which still remain to be accomplished.

Claude Levi-Strauss

While I complain of being able to glimpse no more than the shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is taking shape at this very moment, since I have not reached the stage of development at which I would be capable of perceiving it. A few hundred years hence, in this same place, another traveller, as despairing as myself, will mourn the disappearance of what I might have seen, but failed to see.

Daniel Radcliffe

I think pressure is a good thing and it's good to be able to feel it and use it and experience the feeling of it and especially if you can get past it.

Daniel Radcliffe

There's no shame in enjoying a quiet life. And that's been the realization of the past few years for me.

Daniel Craig

If money comes along I will take it. I just want good scripts that try to make you think. I've been offered lots of money in the past but I just know that I would abuse it and get drunk.

Dan Harris

When you have one foot in the future and the other in the past, you piss on the present.

Countee Cullen

What is last year's snow to me, Last year's anything? The tree Budding yearly must forget How its past arose or set

Cory Doctorow

Stories are propaganda, virii that slide past your critical immune system and insert themselves directly into your emotions.

Courteney Cox

I'm at peace with myself and where I am. In the past, I was always looking to see how everybody else was doing. I wasn't competitive, I was comparative. I just wanted to be where everybody else was. Now I've gotten to an age when I am not comparing anymore.

Clive Barker

O little one, My little one, Come with me, Your life is done. Forget the future, Forget the past. Life is over: Breathe your last.

Clive Barker

We always think we are right, and - search as I have - there is no evil under the sun that somebody somewhere won't argue is actually a good, no idiocy that hasn't got its perfectly serious defenders, and no tyrant, past or present - no matter how bloody - without some bunch of zealot schmucks to defend him or his reputation till the last breath in their bodies - or preferably somebody else's.

Clint Eastwood

I'm past doing one chin-up more than I did the day before. I just kind of do what I feel like.

Dusty Baker

Let them police themselves, and then it goes another step past them to my coaches and there a coach that is responsible for a different area and different category on the field.

Douglas Hurd

We must admit that history is enjoyable to a large extent because it enables us to pass judgment on the past.

Douglas Hurd

There are thus great swathes of the past where understanding is more important and reputable than judgement, because the principal actors performed in line with the ideas and values of that time, not of ours.

Andrew Schneider

I just have this feeling if I take pi, well past all this static, take pi to 10 million, 20 million digits, that I'll find something really incredible. Not just a pattern, not just an order, but a sign. A mathematical sign.

Andre Breton

Past and future monopolize the poet’s sensory and intellectual faculties, detached from the immediate spectacle. These two philtres become utterly clear the moment one stops being hypnotized by the cloudy precipitate constituted by the world of today.

Amanda Holden

In the past, I've thrown myself into work so much there's been very little room for anything else.